• UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015

• Global Forum on Youth, Peace an Development, 22-23 August, Jordan.

• International Youth Day 2015: Youth Civic Engagement, 12 August 2015

• 15 July is first-ever World Youth Skills Day

• Regional Training Workshop on "Evidence-based policies on Youth Development in the Caribbean" 2-4 June 2015, Barbados.

• High-Level Event to mark the 20th Anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth, New York - 29 May 2015

• 29 May 2015- Panel Discussion in UNHQ on Enhancing Youth Policy Implementation: Making Commitments Matter

• The Annual Meeting of the Inter-agency Network on Youth Development took place 24-25 March 2015

• 2015 - Commission for Social Development 53th session - Resolution on Policies and programmes involving youth (E/CN.5/2015/L.5)

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Youth Flash September 2015

Focus: This issue of Youth Flash features the article “Why education needs more than just lip service and public speeches” written by Anshul Tewari, an Ashoka Fellow and the founder and editor-in-chief of Youth ki Awaaz. He describes the importance of education in creating a sustainable future for youth and the lack of access to educational material plaguing many of the schools in India. Anshul believes that a good start is to provide schools with the necessary textbooks they currently aren’t receiving.

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