28 May 1987

17th plenary meeting

Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to life, to education and to work

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling General Assembly resolutions 38/23 of 22 November 1983, 39/23 of 23 November 1984, 40/15 of 18 November 1985 and 41/98 of 4 December 1986, in which the Assembly, inter#alia, recognized the need to adopt appropriate measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work,

Recalling also Council resolutions 1983/17 of 26 May 1983 and 1985/27 of 29 May 1985 concerning youth participation in social and economic development and their exercise of the rights to life, education and work,

Recognizing that in many countries young people, under prevailing critical social and economic conditions, are facing serious problems in the exercise of their right to education and to work,

Convinced that it is necessary to ensure full enjoyment by youth of the rights stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with special regard to the right to life, to education and to work,

Aware of the fact that insufficient education and the unemployment of young people limit their ability to participate in the development process, and, in this regard, emphasizing the importance of secondary and higher education for young people, as well as access for them to appropriate technical and vocational guidance and training programmes,

Expressing its serious interest in consolidating and building further on the results of the International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace in order to contribute, inter#alia, to the increasing participation of young people in the socio-economic life of their country,

1. Calls upon all States, all governmental and non-governmental organizations, interested United Nations bodies and the specialized agencies to continue to give priority to the formulation and implementation of effective measures for securing the exercise by youth of the right to life, to education and to work in conditions of peace, with a view to resolving the problem of unemployment among youth;

2. Requests all the appropriate United Nations bodies to give adequate attention on a regular basis to the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to life, to education and to work;

3. Invites national co-ordinating bodies and bodies implementing policies and programmes in the field of youth to give appropriate priority in the activities to be undertaken after the International Youth Year:

Participation, Development, Peace to the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to life, to education and to work;

4. Decides to consider the matter as part of the review of the follow-up of the International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace.