{"id":188,"date":"2012-04-05T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/so-many-young-people"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:17:15","slug":"so-many-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2012\/04\/so-many-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"So many young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Youth bulge:<\/strong> Almost 40 percent of the global population  is under 24; over one billion people &#8211; one in five people &#8211; are aged  15-24; in one third of the world\u2019s countries, more than 60 percent of  the population is under 30; and 85 percent of the world\u2019s youth live in  the developing world. \u201cYouth are a dominant demographic reality\u2026 a  reality that demands urgent focus and consideration, especially in our  development plans,\u201d William Lacy Swing, director-general of the  International Organization for Migration (IOM), told the conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout investments early on, youth remain trapped in situations of  poverty and dependency, and are easily co-opted into criminality, social  conflict, and patterns of inter-generational violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" style=\"padding:5px;background-color:#aabbdc;margin:2px 8px 8px;border:1px solid #336699;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"background-color:#aabbdc;font-family:tahoma;color:#ffffff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/images\/design\/quotopen.jpg\" height=\"18\" align=\"left\" alt=\"''\" style=\"float:left;border:0 solid;\"><strong style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:16px;\">Text box&#8221;<\/strong><strong style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:16px;\"><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Participants also stressed the need to better engage youth in  humanitarian aid. \u201cPeople under-estimate the capacity of youth,\u201d said  Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of the prime minister of the United  Arab Emirates and a UN Messenger of Peace. \u201cHow is it that we give them  so little role in setting the global development agenda or helping find  new routes to ending political conflicts that deplete our energy and  resources?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth bulge: Almost 40 percent of the global population is under 24; over one billion people &#8211; one in five people &#8211; are aged 15-24; in one third of the world???s countries, more than 60 percent of the population is under 30; and 85 percent of the wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1560],"tags":[664,532,957],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanitarian-action","tag-crisis","tag-volunteers","tag-youth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}