Swimming · Arkansas, AR · Nov 2, 2026 · Ages: Open
The General 1 Secretary-General’s Report to the General Assembly, A/36/215, 1981 2 Secretary-General’s Report to the General Assembly, A/40/256, 1985 3 General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/50/81, 1995 4 General Assembly Resolutions, A/RES/56/117, 2002 5 General Assembly Resolutions, A/RES/62/126, 2008 6 Commission for Social Development Resolutions, E/2007/26 & E/CN.5/2007/, 2007 HIGHLIGHTS • ……”the United Nations, for statistical purposes, defines those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 as youth without prejudice to other definitions by Member States.”1 • …”the United Nations, for statistical purposes, defines those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 as youth without prejudice to other definitions by Member States.”2 • …“In 1995, the world youth population - defined by the United Nations as the age cohort 15-24 - is estimated to be 1.03 billion, or 18 per cent of the total world population.”3 • …“approximately half of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are in youth aged 15 to 24 years and that no fewer than 6,500 young people are infected by the virus each day…”4 • … “where a striking 76 per cent of young people (aged 15 to 24 years old) living with HIV are female.”5 6 DEFINITION OF YOUTH Definition of Youth http://undesadspd.org/Youth.aspx facebook.com/UN4Youth twitter.com/UN4Youth Page2 Assembly resolution A/RES/56/117 in 2001, the Commission for Social Development resolution E/2007/26 & E/CN.5/2007/8 in 2007 and the General Assembly resolution A/RES/62/126 in 2008 also reinforce the same age-group for youth.
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