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170 General Assembly-Thirty-sixth Session seventh session, through the Advisory Committee, a pro- gress report on the implementation of the Specific Pro- gramme of Measures and Activities; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to convene the sec- ond session of the Advisory Committee during the second half of 1982, prior to the thirty-seventh session of the Gen- eral Assembly, to provide it with all necessary assistance and to submit to it a progress report on the implementation of the Specific Programme of Measures and Activities; 8. Invites the Advisory Committee to pay particular attention to the implementation of the Specific Programme of Measures and Activities and, to this end, to submit ad- equate recommendations to the General Assembly; 9'. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take concrete measures, through all the communications media at his disposal, to give widespread publicity to the activities of the United Nations system in the field of youth and to increase the dissemination of information on youth; 10. Further requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures in order to enable the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to perform its tasks and responsibilities for the adequate preparation and observance of the International Youth Year; 11. Again appeals to all States, to international gov- ernmental and non-governmental organizations and to the public to make in due time generous voluntary contributions to supplement funds provided under the regular budget of the United Nations for the costs of the Specific Programme of Measures and Activities and requests the Secretary- General to take all appropriate measures for obtaining such voluntary contributions; 12. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-seventh session the item entitled "International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace" and to grant it high priority. 57th plenary meeting 13 November 1981 36/29. Efforts and measures for securing the imple- mentation and the enjoyment by youth of hu- man rights, particularly the right to education and to work The General Assembly, Mindful of the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,50 the International Covenant on Eco- nomic, Social and Cultural Rights, 51 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 51 Recalling its resolution 34/151 of l7 December 1979, by which it decided to designate 1985 as International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace, Recognizing the profound importance of the role of youth for the all-round development of each country, Convinced of the need for further action aimed at the codification and implementation, whenever possible, of the rights of youth with special regard for the right to work, stipulated in article 6 of the International Covenant on Eco- nomic, Social and Cultural Rights as one of the fundamental human rights, Aware of the fact that the unemployment of youth is a hindrance to the full participation of young people in the socio-economic life of their country, limits their ability to participate in the development process and is, furthermore. a source of increased social ills, and in this regard empha- >0 Resolution 217 A (III). " Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex sizing the importance of secondary and higher education of youth as well as of its access to appropriate technical, vo- cational guidance and training programmes, Considering it necessary that States and also international organizations and their bodies should examine in a more comprehensive, systematic and effective manner ways and means to secure the implementation of human rights and their enjoyment by youth, particularly the right to education and to work, aimed at solving the problem of youth unemployment, I. Calls upon all States, in view of the forthcoming International Youth Year, to adopt appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures, for the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work, aimed at solving the problem of youth unemployment; 2. Appeals to the respective governmental and non- governmental organizations to pay, during the preparation and observance of the International Youth Year, increased attention to the securing and realization of the basic right of young people to education and vocational training and to work; 3. Requests the Economic and Social Council, the Com- mission for Social Development and the Commission on Human Rights, as well as other relevant bodies of the United Nations and specialized agencies, to give continuous atten- tion to the problems of the unemployment of youth and to resolving them; 4. Requests the Advisory Committee for the Interna- tional Youth Year to ensure that, in the context of the prep- arations for the Year, systematic and continuous attention is given to the efforts aimed at the promotion of human rights and their enjoyment by youth, particularly the right to education and vocational training and to work, with a view to resolving the problem of youth unemployment. 57th plenary meeting 13 November 1981 36/30. World Assembly on Aging The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 33/52 of 14 December 1978, in which it decided to convene a World Assembly on Aging in 1982, and 35/129 of 11 December 1980, Bearing in mind that the number of older people in the world, in both the developed and developing countries, will increase dramatically during the next two decades, Recognizing that the aging are a valuable human resource as much in the economic and social fields as in the trans- mission of the cultural heritage, Emphasizing the great importance of the World Assembly on Aging in addressing the broad spectrum of questions concerning the aging and in helping to formulate policies to deal with these questions, Taking note with appreciation of the report of the Ad- visory Committee for the World Assembly on Aging on its first session, held at Vienna from 17 to 21 August 1981, 52 I. Welcomes the offer of the Government of Austria to act as host to the World Assembly on Aging;53 2. Decides that the World Assembly on Aging will be held at Vienna from 26 July to 6 August 1982; 3. Decides further that, subject to the conditions in para- graph 8 below, two days of pre-conference meetings should be held at Vienna immediately before the World Assembly " A/361472, annex. " See A/361357.

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