United Nations and Youth

Growing Together: Youth and the Work of the United Nations (full-text, pdf) presents a comprehensive synthesis of the United Nations system’s work on youth.The publication includes contributions from 30 UN Divisions, Offices, Funds, Programmes and Agencies and shows how each part of the organization is working in its area of expertise to contribute to the goals of the World Programme of Action for Youth (A/RES/50/81), which was adopted in 1995. The publication was produced by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Programme on Youth.