{"id":18934,"date":"2014-07-13T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2014-07-13T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:42:32","slug":"un-calls-on-young-people-to-invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/13\/un-calls-on-young-people-to-invest\/","title":{"rendered":"UN aims to strengthen investment in young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18937\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/youth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18937\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/youth-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/youth-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/youth.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Marking the celebration of the World Population Day, the United Nations urged more investment in young people, now 1.8 billion, the largest youth generation in history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call on all with influence to prioritize youth in development plans, strengthen partnerships with youth-led organizations, and involve young people in all decisions that affect them,\u201d\u00a0UN Secretary-General <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ban Ki-moon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ban_Ki-moon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ban Ki-moon<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The UN chief stressed out the need to take actions and help the youth or those under 25 years of age \u00a0which comprises nearly half of the world&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAction is urgently needed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Acccording to Ban, of the total number of employed youth, half of them are\u00a0\u201cstuck in low-wage, dead-end jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also added that more youth today are denied not just decent jobs, but also the right to a quality education and the chance to participate in the political life of their societies.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s World Population Day is focused on giving attention to the need to find solution for development issues, plans and programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy empowering today\u2019s youth, we will lay the groundwork for a more sustainable future for generations to come.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Marking the celebration of the World Population Day, the United Nations urged more investment in young people, now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4681,458,3240],"class_list":["post-18934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-investment","tag-un","tag-youth","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}