Engaging with adolescents and young people and discussing pressing issues they face in their lives is the goal of UNICEF’s participation in the World Youth Conference in Mexico.
HIV prevalence trends in 16 countries show decline among young people. Declines of 25 per cent or more are reported in 15 out of 21 countries most affected by HIV.
The role of young people in improving the state of the world took centre stage at this week’s World Youth Conference in Leon, Mexico. Over five days, delegates from 112 countries—including 25 000 youth and representatives from government, civil society and the United Nations—shared ideas on young people’s involvement in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
This section offers –every week- a selection of the press notes that appear on the principal on-line journals of different countries of the region, selected with a wide and plural criteria, that intends to show what the press is saying on young men and women. For news from August 23rd to 30th click here
