Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka
International Youth Day (IYD) is a celebration of ‘youth’ by the United Nations. The motivation behind this day is to discuss the ideology behind social and world political issues encompassing youth. The first IYD was celebrated on 12 August 2000 and since then has been remarked as an auspicious occasion worldwide. This year the 2017 themes promote ‘Youth Building Peace’ and the whole world commemorates Young individuals in all parts of the world, living in nations, in various social and financial settings, dedicating to the world they live in.
A majority of educational Institutes celebrate this occasion in order to motivate their young minds. Cultural events, activities, camps, and festivals are organized to promote the importance of this day. UNESCO also provides various platforms for this day. UNESCO’s one and only online youth community is a service that aims to provide young people with a dashboard to find out about UNESCO’s youth actions across all sectors and opportunities to get involved with the organization’s work.
The World Program of Action is the fundamental strategy behind this day. It is an approach structure and simple rules for national activity and worldwide helps to progress the circumstance of youngsters. It contains recommendations for the young agenda to the year 2000 and past, going for accomplishing the goals of the International Youth Year and at encouraging conditions and support to provide prosperity and passion among the young.
The Program of Action concentrates specifically on measures to fortify national limits in the field of youth and to build the quality and amount of chances accessible to youngsters for full, successful and helpful cooperation in society. The official dedicatory occasion to observe International Youth Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York takes place on Friday, 11 August 2017.
Sorted out by the United Nations Division of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) as a team with the United Nations Inter-office Network on Youth Development (UN IANYD) Working Group on Youth and Peacebuilding, the occasion will consider the social improvement parts of youth, peace, and security. Specifically, the occasion plans to cover issues, methodologies, and difficulties to social incorporation for the advancement and support of peace and security.
