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UN AND RELATED WEB SITES
UNITED NATIONS SITES DESIGNED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
* Cyber School Bus
www.un.org (click on "CyberSchoolBus" )
* Voices of Youth
www.unicef.org/voy
UNITED NATIONS NEWS SITES
* Journal of the United Nations:
www.un.org/Docs/journal/En/lateste.pdf (Lists daily meetings and events at United Nations headquarters.)
* UN Chronicle Online Edition
www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle
(Articles about UN activities published quarterly by the Department of Information.)
* United Nations News Service
www0.un.org/apps/News
(Daily articles about UN activities and calendar of events.)
* United Nations Non-governmental Liaison Service Go-Between
www.un-ngls.org
News about United Nations and UN partners.
* Youth Flash Newsletter
www.un.org/youth
(Newsletter about United Nations youth activities) (Click on "news".)
* UNITED NATIONS OFFICES FOCUSED ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
* Committee on the Rights of the Child
www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm
* Office of Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict
www.un.org/children/conflict
* Secretary General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN)
www.ilo.org/yen
* United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
www.unicef.org
* UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (The Centre helps
to strengthen UNICEF’s capability to amplify its voice as an advocate
for children worldwide identify and research areas vital to the current and
future work of UNICEF. This site offers many publications on child and youth
related issues.)
www.unicef-icdc.org
UNESCO Youth Coordination Unit
www.unesco.org/youth
* United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) for Children
www.unep.org/tunza/children
* INFOYOUTH Network
www.unesco.org/webworld/infoyouth
* United Nations Programme on Youth
www.un.org/youth
INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS
* Information about the United Nations
www.un.org (click on "about UN" )
* International Day of Peace *nbsp;(Observed every year on September 21 with Hear the Children Day of Peace)
www.internationaldayofpeace.org
* International Human Rights Day (Observed every year on December 10.)
www.un.org/english (Click on "Human Rights" then click on "Human Rights Day")
* Millennium Development Goals
www.un.org/millenniumgoals
* President of the General Assembly (Speeches and activities of the United Nations General Assembly President)
www.un.org/ga/president
* United Nations UNIFEM AIDS web site
Developed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in collaboration with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and designed to help improve the support for the millions of women around the world living with HIV and affected by the epidemic.
www.genderandaids.org
* United Nations Bookshop
https://unp.un.org/bookshop/default.aspx
* United Nations Calendar of Days, Weeks, Years and Decades
www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/international_days.asp
* The United Nations Department of Peace Keeping. (The site describes the work of the Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit.)
www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/home.shtml
* United NationsGeneral Assembly. (Resolutions, focus, schedule of the United Nations General Assembly. Research back into past sessions.)
www.un.org/ga/61 (or use the number of the session interested in)
* Upcoming United Nations meetings and events
www.un.org/events
* Youth Delegates to the General Assembly
www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/youthrep.htm
UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST TO YOUNG PEOPLE
* A World Fit for Children
www.unicef.org/specialsession/wffc
* A World Fit for Us
www.unicef.org/specialsession/documentation/childrens-statement.htm
* Braga Youth Action Plan
www.un.org/events/youth98/yforum98/bragayap.htm
* Charter of the United Nations
www.un.org/aboutun/charter
* Convention on the Rights of the Child
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm
* Dakar Framework for Action: Education for All
www.unesco.org/education/efa/ed_for_all/dakfram_eng.shtml
* Dakar Youth Empowerment Strategy
www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/documents/dakar.doc
* Documents of the United Nations
www.un.org/documents
* Fourth World Conference on Women-Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995)
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/index.html
* International Decade on a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World
www.unesco.org/education/ecp/index.htm
* Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/WSSD_POI_PD/English/POI_PD.htm
* Manifesto 2000 for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence
www.unesco.org/opi/eng/unescopress/99-38e.htm
* Millennium Summit and Millennium Forum
www.un.org/millennium
* Recommendations from the C8 Children's Forum in July 2005
www.unicef.org.uk/c8 (Click on "Children for Change-C8 Recommendations")
* State of the World's Children (UNICEF annual reports
on the situation of children.)
www.unicef.org/publications/index.html
* UNICEF ChildInfo (data on monitoring the situation of women and children)
www.childinfo.org
* Agenda 21 Chapter 25 - Children and Youth in Sustainable Development
habitat.igc.org/agenda21/a21-25.htm
* United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on Youth
www.un.org/youth ( click on "Resources" )
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
* Vienna Human Rights Declaration and Programme of Action Vienna +5
www.hri.ca/vienna+5/vdpa.shtml
* World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (1998)
www.un.org/events/youth98
* World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond
www.un.org/events/youth98/backinfo/ywpa2000.htm
* World Summit for Children (1990) -World Declaration
for the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and the Plan of Action
for Implementing the World Declaration in the 1990s
www.unicef.org/wsc
* World Youth Report 2005
www.un.org/youth (Click on "Resources".)
* Yokohama Global Commitment 2001 from the Second Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
www.unicef.org/events/yokohama
SOME RELATED WEBS OF INTEREST
* Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
(All kinds of information about child rights issues, documents and activities around the world.)
www.crin.org
* Earth Charter (Declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful world)
www.earthcharter.org (select a language first )
* Global Movement for Children
www.unicef.org/gmfc
* Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century. (Check out Peace Lessons from Around the World.)
www.haguepeace.org
* Save the Children
www.savethechildren.net
* Say YES to Children Campaign
www.unicef.org/say_yes
* World Bank- Children and Youth Web Site
www.worldbank.org/childrenandyouth
* World Food Programme
Video game that teaches about global hunger. It's up to you to save and rebuild the island of Sheylan. Race against time to feed thousands of people alongside a crack team of emergency aid workers. Pilot helicopters while looking out for hungry people, negotiate with armed rebels blocking a food convoy, and use food aid to help rebuild communities. Learn about the real world where over 800 million people are plagued by hunger each day and help World Food Programme work towards a world without hunger. You need Macromedia Flash Player.
www.food-force.com
* Youth Business International (YBI)
YBI is a unit of The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum that helps disadvantaged young people realize their ambitions to become entrepreneurs. It also provides the Secretariat for the Entrepreneurship Group of the Youth Employment Network.
www.youth-business.org
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