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 ...

Young people, representing 193 Member States, gathered at UN Headquarters on 25 September to be part of a historic moment; the adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. UN DESA got a moment to speak to them about the new sustainable development goals, before the major event kicked off, bringing ...

The 193-Member United Nations General Assembly today formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals, which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed as a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world. “The new agenda is a promise by leaders to all people everywhere. It ...

Building a sustainable future requires us to intensify our efforts towards eradicating extreme poverty and discrimination, and ensuring that everyone can fully exercise their human rights. The full participation of people living in poverty, particularly in the decisions that affect their lives and communities, must be at the centre of ...

The 2015 celebration of the 25th anniversary of International Day of Older Persons (IDOP), in anticipation of the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) to be held in 2016, will focus not only on the impact of the new urban environment on older persons, ...