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For four months, Team GetIN worked late into the night, feverishly coding and brainstorming, dedicated to achieving two main objectives: One, develop a mobile app that could revolutionize maternal care for young mothers throughout Uganda – and eventually, they hoped, the world.
And two, win First Prize in UNFPA’s Hack for Youth competition, which enlisted […]
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On a bleak, cold day in late February, hundreds of refugees, bundled in winter coats and carrying bulging bags and baskets, stream into the Tebanovce transit centre, stationed on the border between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia. Most have been travelling for months, and will likely only rest here for a […]
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Level: Internships / fellowships
Contract Type: Fellowship
Closing date: 22 February 2016 – 5:00pm (New York time)
Duty station: Cairo, Egypt
Job ID: 5311
Hiring today’s innovators, developing tomorrow’s leaders!
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Adjumani, Uganda – Weeks after violence erupted in in South Sudan, Mike Marchar fled for his life. He found safe haven in the Ayilo Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda, but lost track of his family. He doesn’t know whether they are still alive. The carnage he witnessed has stayed with him.
But there is one […]
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The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution calling on countries to engage young people in building peace and countering violent extremism.
“Today’s generation of youth is the largest the world has ever known,” states the resolution, adding that in many countries affected by armed conflict, young people comprise a majority of the population. […]
KABUL, Afghanistan – “We had a case where one of the callers, a girl, was pregnant, and when she told her boyfriend about her condition, he disappeared. She was desperate when she called us, even considering committing suicide,” said Shkullah Hassanyar. Dr. Hassanyar is part of a team of doctors who staff the Youth Health […]
Malawi – “I thought family planning was for married people, not for girls. We were not friendly to young people. We were judgmental,” says Blessings Sonkhanani, a nurse at Namwera Health Center. “Now I know that anyone of childbearing age is eligible for family planning. Now we know what young people need, we’re special to […]
“The world now has the largest generation of young people in history. I place great hope in their power to shape our future,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told leaders and dignitaries at High-Level Event on the Demographic Dividend and Youth Employment, held at UN Headquarters in New York on June 1st.
Much the world is […]
On April 13th leaders from around the world opened the 48th session of the Commission on Population and Development to take stock of the world’s development and the welfare of its people.
Below are 10 little-known facts about the world as it stands today. Together, they show signs of enormous progress – but not enough. Too […]
In March 2015, the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi visited the Occupied Palestinian Territory on an official visit to meet with Palestinian government and youth representatives. The mission aimed to shed light on youth development challenges and opportunities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and to reiterate the commitment of the United Nations […]
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