This year’s theme for International Youth Day is: “Change the world”. Our youth delegates and observers at the Union of National Employees’ Triennial Convention are certainly on that path; their commitment to fairness and justice is helping make the world a better place for all.
International Youth Day, first observed in 2000, promotes the benefits young people bring into the world and aims to promote ways to engage them in becoming more actively involved in making positive contributions to their communities.
“Failing to invest in our youth is a false economy,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a message for International Youth Day 2011.
That’s a message taken to heart by the Union of National Employees. This convention saw the attendance of youth delegates from every region and a motion concerning youth members move up the agenda and pass overwhelmingly.