The future awaits us, and it lies in the hands of our young people.

If we build on the potential of our youth, communities will develop and grow stronger.

Around 65 per cent of young people live in the rural regions.

Nothing relating to the well being of our youth escapes the consequences of the blockade.

Investing in our youth means, as always, investing in our future.

Our aim is to transform our young population into an organized, disciplined and productive workforce.

It is easy sometimes to overlook our youth, but we do so at our great peril.

Our young people assumed leadership over the process and over some of the ideas that are now being implemented.

Our twenty first century should focus on the socialization of our young people.

The Rio Group clearly understands the need to renew our commitment to our youth in order to eradicate poverty and unemployment.

Our boys may not win in South Africa, but maybe The Grannies can show how it is done.

Marilyn Monroe is just as beautiful on the screen as she was in person, and our many young people think she's still alive.

Our responsibility here is twofold to put growth back on track, but also to respond immediately to the human tragedy that has hit our youth.

Brazil declared 2005 to be the National Year for Youth, and I would like to outline some of the actions that have been taken for the benefit of young people.

However, the challenges of rebuilding communities and directing people particularly our young people away from deviant social behaviours remain daunting.

And I say to you, in whatever you're doing, you must be patient. You have to have patience to we want things to happen. We talk about our youth being impatient a lot.

Youth participation in the construction of a better future strengthens Governments in their efforts to find appropriate solutions to the most pressing problems that our youths are facing.

The protests did not fail to come, some hair raising when reading their comments and claims regarding this law This will bring to Israelization of our youth , claims an Arab Israeli parliament member.

Simply put, we Syrians did not have the luxury of choice, while others had plans to dispose of their damaged goods on our land, using the blood of our youth.

Thousands of hypocrites, profiteers and merchants of religion and war continued to wallow in cowardice, exemplified by the number of clergymen who were too afraid to warn the youth against paying allegiance to ISIS.

None of us can begrudge attention to youth, for however distant and remote it may seem, all present are either young now or were young once.

To better engage our youth, our Ministry of Community Development and Sports underwent a structural and name change in 2004 to become the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.

In the name of our people men, women, children, elders, all the displaced families and our deprived younger generation I strongly appeal to the Assembly and, in all humility, hope that our plea will be heeded.

Efforts in the context of the World Programme of Action for Youth have come together with actions taken by the Government and the people of Brazil to set out integrated policies to improve the living conditions of our young people.

The ways and means may vary according to the situations of each society, but our objective must be the same to empower our youth, so that they may contribute to creating a more peaceful, prosperous and democratic world.

If all this is our responsibility, then we are also the ones who paid with our blood to fight this entity. And until lately, we were the ones who suffered most from its extremism and its occupation of our land. We have also suffered from its attempts to brainwash our youth.

Our young people need decent work that will remove them from the risks and dangers of idleness, which include frustration, vagrancy, drug abuse, HIV AIDS infection, gang membership, violence and delinquency.

First, as regards youth and employment, in our National Youth Development Strategy to the Year 2010, which was approved by the Government in 2003, unemployment was identified as the biggest difficulty currently facing our young people.

Too often, we cite size and fiscal difficulties as excuses not to participate, even though others not so well off have made commendable efforts towards this worthwhile effort on the part of our young people.

While half of our youth are in post secondary education, many without advanced education will face problems when entering a workforce where almost all jobs are now highly skilled.

Now, nearly one million people have fled Burma s political and economic chaos for neighboring countries, and another million people remain internally displaced. Our youth are at an all time high risk of drug addiction from the massive flow of narcotics, particularly amphetamine type stimulants (ATS), from Burma, while the generals there maintain congenial ties with notorious drug lords.

True Egyptian youth know that the God of Ramadan is the same God of the rest of the year it's a shame when our youth prays, fasts, and worships God for a whole month asking for forgiveness until the last day of Ramadan then on the first day of the Bairam they roam the streets of Cairo harassing women.

All the tiny details we have prepared are painful to contemplate. It hurts to search for old slogans which were a dream for most Syrians, before violence changed us. The photographs of martyrs are heart wrenching.

A prayer costs nothing yet, how many prayer breakfasts have we attended where one sentence might mention our young people and their attempts to inculcate a culture of peace in our daily lives? If this sounds simple, then it is our contention that it was designed to be simple.

First, governments must start thinking about education as a security issue. For example, while endlessly worrying about the existence of dangerous material online, we could do more to educate our youth in the critical thinking skills needed to dismiss such content.

Pray tell, do any of our local movies have dappankuthu dance slots included? Our youngsters don't even dance this kind of dance in dancing competitions like Aatam 100 Vagai. Since when did dappankuthu became Malaysian Indians' culture?