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STORY: UN / YOUTH FORUM WRAP
TRT: 2.29
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
27 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban-ki Moon at the dais
3. Wide shot, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Global crises are hitting young people especially hard. Youth unemployment is an enormous problem affecting nearly 74 million people around the world from the mid-teens to the mid-twenties. Hundreds of millions of young people are directly affected by conflict which can rob them of their homes, their families and their futures and their friends. And young people will inherit this planet, the only one planet Earth, from older generations who are too often exploiting natural resources instead of protecting them.”
5. Wide shot, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“If we educate a woman, a mother, it is not that we are educating just one woman. This woman will teach her children and family and society, so this has a multiplying effect. Distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, to unleash the power of young people you need to help drive our work. The United Nations is ready to partner with you. That is why, again, I appointed The United Nations Special Envoy for Youth.”
7. Wide shot, audience applause
8. Wide shot, press conference dais
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Alhendawi, Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth:
“We need more youth-friendly mechanisms where young people can interact and understand, first, the work of the Organization. But it is not only about promoting the work of the United Nations as well about young people influencing the work of the United Nations, this is very important. So, the mechanism is not a one-way communication, it is two-ways, to young people and to make always their work in line with the programmes and the development agenda of the United Nations which has to be influenced as well by young people.”
11. Med shot, journalists
12. Wide shot, end of press conference via video-link
At the opening of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (27 March) encouraged participants to help the Organization rise to challenges such as insecurity, climate change and unemployment.
Ban said “global crises are hitting young people especially hard,” and noted that youth unemployment affects nearly 74 million people around the world.
Young people are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults, according to the UN International Labour Organization (ILO). In Europe and the Middle East, more than half of 15 to 24 year olds are without jobs.
The Secretary-General also pointed out that “hundreds of millions of young people are directly affected by conflict which can rob them of their homes, their families and their futures and their friends.”
He added that “young people will inherit this planet, the only one planet Earth, from older generations who are too often exploiting natural resources instead of protecting them.”
Ban underscored the value of education, especially of women and girls. He said that educating women “has a multiplying effect” benefitting not only the individual girl, but “her children and family and society.”
He also highlighted the appointment of his new Envoy for Youth, 29-year-old Ahmad Alhendawi, and the role that he will play to help “unleash the power of young people.”
At a later press conference Alhendawi, said that engaging young people in addressing global challenges is important because they are at the very fore in both using and developing tools in the field of science, technology and innovation.
He said that “more youth-friendly mechanisms” are needed for young people to better “interact and understand” the work of the UN, with the goal of not only “promoting the work of the United Nations as well about young people influencing the work of the United Nations.”
Today’s forum’s theme focuses on leveraging science, technology, innovation and culture to improve societies. Participants are ‘tomorrow’s innovators’, including youth representatives from Member States, students and young entrepreneurs with science and technology backgrounds and youth-led non-governmental organizations.
