The role of youth in the promotion and protection of human rights, including the question of conscientious objection to military service.
| Publisher | UN Commission on Human Rights |
| Author | UN Commission on Human Rights (39th sess. : 1983 : Geneva) |
| Publication Date | 9 March 1983 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | E/CN.4/RES/1983/46 |
| Reference | 39 |
| Cite as | UN Commission on Human Rights, The role of youth in the promotion and protection of human rights, including the question of conscientious objection to military service., 9 March 1983, E/CN.4/RES/1983/46, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f0bd3c.html [accessed 5 June 2023] |
1983/46. The role of youth in the promotion and protection of human rights including the question of conscientious objection to military service[1]111
The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling its resolution 1982/36 of 11 March 1982, in which reference is made to the question of the exercise by youth of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to education and the right to work, Bearing in mind that it is one of the main goals of the United Nations to protect succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to promote social progress and development, Noting that the United Nations is also called upon to promote universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms foe all, better standards of living, full employment and conditions conducive to economic and social progress and development, Convinced of the need to bring up young people according to the ideals of peace and mutual understanding among nations, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and dedication to the aims of social progress and development, Recognizing that inadequate education and unemployment among young people limit their opportunities to participate in the development process, and stressing in this connection the importance of secondary and higher education and of access by youth, to appropriate vocational and technical guidance and training programmes, Welcoming the designation of 1985 by the General Assembly as International Youth Year under the motto "Participation, Development, Peace", Expressing its interest in the success of the forthcoming International Youth Year, which should, in particular, promote wider participation by young people in their countries' social and economic life,1. Emphasizes the important role of young people in their countries, political, economic and social development, and especially in the struggle against such obstacles to political, social and economic development as colonialism and neo-colonialism, racial discrimination in all its forms, racism, apartheid, foreign domination and occupation, aggression and threats to national sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity, and denial of the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms and of the recognition of the right of peoples to self-determination and to the exercise of full sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources;
2. Calls upon all States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. the relevant United Nations organs and the specialized agencies to devote constant attention to the exercise and use by young people of human rights, particularly the right to education and vocational training and the right to work, with a view to ensuring full employment and the solution of the problem of unemployment among young people;
3. Calls upon all States to take appropriate legislative, administrative and other action for the exercise by youth of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to education and the right to work, with a view to creating conditions for the active participation of young people in the formulation and implementation of programmes for the economic and social development of their countries;
4. Confirms its decision to examine at its forty-first session, as a matter of priority, the question of the exercise by youth of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to education and the right to work.
[1]111 Adopted at the 54th meeting, on 9 March 1983, without a vote. See chap. XV.
