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@UNYouthEnvoy

Official account of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake - . Serving the world's .

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 15

    Young people are saving the world! 🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️🌎 Yes, we face a lot of big problems – but we have the power to fix them I joined this important movement for success💪. Are you on board?👇🏼

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  2. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    Young girls shouldn't be stopped from: 🏌️‍♀️playing a game, 👩‍🏫taking a school course, or 👩‍🔧choosing a future career just because of gender stereotypes and expectations. RT if you agree!

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Sahel region covers 🇧🇫Burkina Faso 🇨🇲Cameroon 🇹🇩Chad 🇬🇲Gambia 🇬🇳Guinea 🇲🇱Mali 🇲🇷Mauritania 🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria 🇸🇳Senegal With 64,5% of young ppl below 25, it's the 🌍's most youthful region! More on newly-launched plan▶️

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  4. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    Forests and trees supply more than one billion people with 👇 🍒 Food ⚕️ Medicine ⚡️ Energy Just out: report on the State of the World's Forests:

    11 replies . 182 retweets 365 likes
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  5. 5 hours ago

    By girls, for girls! 👩🏿‍🦱👩🏼‍🔧👩🏿‍🎓👩🏼‍🔬🤵🏾‍♀️👧🏻🧜🏿‍♀️👷🏻‍♀️👩🏽‍✈️🕵🏻‍♀️👩🏾‍🦰👩🏼‍⚖️🧞‍♀️ 🧕🏿👩🏻‍🚒👧🏾👩🏽‍🎨👩🏻‍🏫🚴🏿‍♀️🧝🏽‍♀️👱🏽‍♀️🧕🏼👩🏾‍💻👩🏼‍🌾👩🏿‍🎤👩🏽‍🦱 The Summit starts monday & I'm so excited to be attending!

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  6. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    ✏️ Design. Fail. Iterate. Scale! Catch up on some of our hand-picked highlights with the Accelerator Year in Review

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  7. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    In less than 2 weeks’ time, we'll be launching during the week in NY! Stay tuned for 50 leading to achieve the ! 👉

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  8. 24 hours ago

    What's the issue here? ⛹🏾‍♀️ 🏋🏼‍♀️ 🏄🏾‍♀️ 🏌🏻‍♀️ 🏊🏾‍♀️ 🤸🏿‍♀️ 🧘🏿‍♀️ 🚵🏽‍♀️ Girls around the 🌎 still fear harassment practicing sports This must stop🛑 Let’s support & raise awareness on ! More▶️

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  9. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    Through innovation, young entrepreneurs can contribute significantly to their country’s growth. Investing in people is as important as investing in infrastructure or policy. Join the conversation 👉

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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    The team are at it again! This time they taught over 2000 students in "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much". An amazing wrap up in , Egypt, with the occasion of 's Global Forum 2018.

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  11. Retweeted
    Jul 4

    Pre-Conference meeting of children and youth in the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. &youthforDRR

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  12. Jul 5

    📢Calling all young ppl! The this 22-23 August highlights the importance of multilateralism to find+implement global solutions for global problems💪🏾 Join in raising awareness & taking action on the ! ✍🏾Register ▶

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  13. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    During the upcoming , Higher Education Institutions HESI are showing how education plays a key role in achieving the ! A unique interface between higher education, science, and policy making. Find out more:

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    Jul 5

    : amounts to more than 5% of global GDP! From various parts of the 🌍 we’ve selected talented teens between 13 & 18 to let them address the issue through technology & develop educational games focussing on and the 💻

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    1 reply . 12 retweets 17 likes
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  15. Jul 5

    to the open dialogue on "Global Perspectives on Issues" during my trip to 🇺🇿 Meaningful insight from young ppl 👩🏽‍🦰👨🏿‍🦱on the activities, challenges + opportunities they face in Uzbekistan & how they define youth rights. My message to them👇🏾

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  16. Jul 4

    is only a week away! These countries come together to review progress on : 🇦🇱🇦🇩🇦🇲🇦🇺🇧🇸🇧🇭🇧🇯🇧🇹🇨🇻🇨🇦 🇨🇴🇩🇴🇪🇨🇪🇬🇬🇷🇬🇳🇭🇺🇮🇪🇯🇲🇰🇮 🇱🇦🇱🇻🇱🇧🇱🇹🇲🇱🇲🇹🇲🇽🇳🇦🇳🇪🇵🇾 🇵🇱🇶🇦🇨🇬🇷🇴🇸🇦🇸🇳🇸🇬🇸🇰🇪🇸🇱🇰 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇭🇹🇬🇦🇪🇺🇾🇻🇳

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  17. Retweeted
    Jul 3

    About 617 million children & adolescents of primary & lower secondary school age are not achieving minimum proficiency in reading & math. Refocused efforts are needed to improve the quality of education. data Report:

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    Jul 3

    Accelerating efforts on 💧 of water saves lives, keeps girls in school, makes adults more productive & protects the 🌍. Goal 6, Clean Water & Sanitation, will be reviewed at the High-level Political Forum on from 9-18 July.

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  19. Jul 3

    Children👦🏼👧🏿have the right to be involved in decisions that affect them & express their views freely To ensure children’s wellbeing we must ensure their 🙌🏽 More on how are protected by treaties here▶️

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  20. Retweeted
    Jul 3

    Learning is an essential part of the journey. 15 UN Youth Volunteers participate in regional training workshop in this week, before their deployment with different agencies to contribute to worldwide. All the best for your assignments!

    3 replies . 23 retweets 72 likes
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    Jul 3

    'Young people are going to drive this change!' 🇬🇲 champ , head of , shares why The 's future is bright, with youth active in key sectors: 🐓 🛬 💻Info & communication 🤝: 📽️:

    3 replies . 31 retweets 48 likes
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