ICYO - Youth Information

(E-Newsletter from network of youth organizations in India)

No. 2007/ 51

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ICYO - Platform of 356 Youth Organizations in India.    

ICYO - India’s largest network of urban and rural youth.

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UN Secretary General Message for International Youth Day

 

Give Young People Fair, Full Stake in Society’s Success

-   Mr. Ban Ki-moon Secretary General, United Nations

 

 

International Youth Day is an annual opportunity to recognize the world’s 1.2 billion young people, to celebrate their achievements and to push for their participation in all areas of society.

 

This year’s commemoration -- Be Seen, Be Heard: Youth Participation for Development -- focuses on the enormous contributions young women and men everywhere can and do make towards national uplift.  They are valuable and committed partners in the global effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty and hunger in half by 2015.  They remain at the forefront of the fight against HIV/AIDS.  And they bring fresh, innovative thinking to longstanding development concerns.

 

Approaching the midpoint of the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, we need their participation more than ever.  Their energy and idealism can help make up for lost ground and achieve our development goals in full and on time.

 

In turn, we must fulfill our obligations to youth.  The World Programme of Action for Youth asks Governments to consider the contributions of young persons on all policies affecting them.  Governments must honour this commitment.  They must also increase the financial, education and technical support made available to young people and help them realize their potential.

 

Despite growing recognition of their needs, young people in many parts of the world continue to be marginalized and ignored.  Their status as a group experiencing disproportionate levels of poverty and unemployment is frequently overlooked.  As a result, the young are three times more likely than adults to lack jobs.  In fact, while they constitute one fourth of the world’s labour force, young people make up almost half of its unemployed.

 

It is high time that we stopped viewing our young people as part of the problem and started cultivating their promise and potential.  On this International Youth Day, let us all resolve to invest in and protect our most valuable resource, and give young men and women a fair and full stake in our society and in its success.

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Youth Information is published by

Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO), 194-A, Arjun Nagar, Safdarjang Enclave, New Delhi 110029, India. Phone: 91 9811729093  / 91 11 26183978 Fax 91 11 26198423 Email: icyoindia@... / icyo@... Web:  www.icyo.in

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Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) is a registered non-profit, non-governmental network organization, committed in developing areas of mutual cooperation and understanding among different youth voluntary agencies, youth groups, clubs and individuals working in the field of youth welfare in India.  ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India. It's family consists of over 356 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

Affiliation: 

Consultative (Roster) Status with ECOSOC, United Nations;
Consultative Status with Commission on Sustainable Development;
Full Member of World Assembly of Youth (WAY); Asian Youth Council (AYC); Youth for Habitat International Network (YFHIN); CRIN, South Asia Youth; Environment Network (SAYEN); ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Network for Combating Trafficking; Affiliate with ECPAT International, 
Indian Partner of AIDS Care Watch Campaign;
Steering Committee member of World Bank's YDP Network;
Working relation with Indian Association of Parliamentarians (IAPPD);
International Medical Parliamentarians Organizations (IMPO);
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD);
World Youth Foundation, Malaysia