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  • Securing Rights or Results? A False Choice in Integrating Youth Into Sustainable Development

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    From the Wilson Center  //  August 7, 2014  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
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    “The greatest challenge we have today is that we have a world that is pushing back on rights,” said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at the Wilson Center. [Video Below]

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  • Investing in the Leaders of Tomorrow: World Population Day 2014 Youth Infographic

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    Eye On  //  July 11, 2014  //  By Schuyler Null
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    World Population Day began in 1987 after public imagination was sparked by the idea that there could be 5 billion people on Earth. Today, we’re well past 7 billion and according to the latest UN projections, headed north of 9 billion by mid-century.

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  • Seven Billion People, One Planet: Roger-Mark De Souza on Empowering Young People

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    From the Wilson Center  //  July 10, 2014  //  By Kate Diamond

    “Population is critical to thinking about sustainability and human wellbeing, and how we live and subsist on the planet,” says ECSP’s Roger-Mark De Souza on this World Population Day.

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  • Youth and Global Violence: Saving History’s Largest Generation of Young People

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    July 9, 2014  //  By Moses Jackson
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    As the largest-ever generation of young people enters adulthood, armed conflict is having a profound effect on their future. People under the age of 24 comprise nearly half the world’s population but are the primary participants in conflict today. Conflict is more prevalent in younger societies, and half of all forcibly displaced people are children.

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