The UN is committed to four main purposes: 1) To keep peace throughout the world 2) To develop friendly relations among nations 3) To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, diseases and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other's right and freedoms 4) To be a center for harmonising the actions of nations to achieve these goals. The journey of the United Nations started well before the declarations of the 1945 and has evolved in developmental phases: 1960-1970, 1st Development Decade 1971-1980, 2nd development decade 1981-1990, 3rd development decade 1991-1999, Human Development reports 2000-2015, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and 2016-2030, Sustainable Development Goals.(SDGs). "Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success."- Edward Everett Hale. The United Nations was founded (Officially) in 1945 as an international organisation after the Second World War by 51 countries, Poland being the 51st to sign and admitted in the instance. The aforementioned are thus not just to get us curious but to whet our appetite for the much needed partnership towards achieving the SDGs.
These may have informed the theme for this years' International Youth Day "Transforming Education". The global learning crisis, according to UN is a threat seen to severely hamper progress towards the SDGs. To reflect back on the earlier UN report, it said, more than half of all children and adolescents aged 6-14 lack basic reading and math skills, despite the fact that the majority of them are attending school. It was not clear thereafter how many of these population eventually exercised their civic right for further demographic analysis. This figure also reflected in the number of registered voters in the much talked about 2019 general elections. In Nigeria, we have the youth’s population below the ages of 25 forming about 65% of our estimated 200million population. The UN affirmed that this is the largest youth population ever. I like to announce that "A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all" Jacqueline NovogratzĪccording to United Nations (UN), there are currently 1.8billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world.
Keynote address delivered by Gboyega OLORUNFEMI in Ibadan, Oyo State at the 2nd National Youth Symposium on SDGs organized by Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Youth Nigeria on 21st August, 2019.
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