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STORY: UN / GUTERRES YOUTH FORUM
TRT: 01:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
09 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chambers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today, young people face high unemployment rates and a prevalent sense of disenfranchisement. Sixty-four million young people are unemployed. Some 145 million young workers live in poverty. And some 617 million youth worldwide lack basic mathematics and literacy skills. Young women, in particular, are too often discriminated against, from health to education, from access to the labour force and access to financing. In some regions, for example, female youth unemployment is almost double than that of men. If we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, governments, civil society and international partners must scale up their investment in young people – ensuring that they are educated, empowered employed.”
4. Pan left, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“More often than not, young people in our world today are a lightning rod for change. You show the courage and persistence that is often lacking among older generations. And you can imagine I know a little bit about older generations. And because it is your future, your livelihoods, your freedom, your security, your environment, as it is of us all, you do not, and you must not take no for an answer. In the United Nations, you have a partner that will accompany you on this journey towards more peaceful, just and prosperous world.”
6. Pan left, ECOSOC Chambers
Addressing the 8th annual ECOSOC Youth Forum today (9 Apr) at United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, governments, civil society and international partners must scale up their investment in young people, ensuring that they are educated, empowered employed.”
The Secretary-General said “today, young people face high unemployment rates and a prevalent sense of disenfranchisement. Sixty-four million young people are unemployed. Some 145 million young workers live in poverty. And some 617 million youth worldwide lack basic mathematics and literacy skills. Young women, in particular, are too often discriminated against, from health to education, from access to the labour force and access to financing. In some regions, for example, female youth unemployment is almost double than that of men.”
Guterres told an audience of youth leaders from around the world that “more often than not, young people in our world today are a lightning rod for change.”
He said, “because it is your future, your livelihoods, your freedom, your security, your environment, as it is of us all, you do not, and you must not take no for an answer.”
In the United Nations, the Secretary-General added, “you have a partner that will accompany you on this journey towards more peaceful, just and prosperous world.”
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum is an annual initiative of the President of the Council. It has evolved into a key platform where young people can contribute to policy discussions at the United Nations through their collective ideas, solutions and innovations.
