Youth and Employment

• Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment, resources from Population Council.
• UNICEF – Convention on the Rights of the Child is a set of non-negotiable standards and obligations which set minimum entitlements and freedoms that should be respected by governments.

Youth: Health and HIV/AIDS

• CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)

Capacity Building of Children

• Canadian 4-H Council, provides programs which inspire youth to become leaders in their communities.

Child Labour and Street Children

• Consortium for Street Children

Children’s Rights

• Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children
• Save the Children Canada

Community and Youth Development

• Advocates for Youth
• Global Youth Service Day
• International Child and Youth Care Network (CYC-NET)
• New Directions for Student Leadership, issues available: 69(1996)-current. (StFX only)
• Taking IT Global
• Youth Communication helps teenagers develop their reading and writing skills and make responsible choices about their lives.

Girl Child and Education

• Oxfam. (2006). Working with the media on gender and education: A guide for training and planning.
• United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI)

Sexual and Reproductive Health

• HIV InSite, powerful website for youth.
• Public Health Agency of Canada, childhood and adolescence resources.
• Staying Alive Campaign
• Teen Health Source, created by Planned Parenthood of Toronto, contains resources pertaining to youth and sexual and reproductive health.

General Links

• By Youth, With Youth, For Youth, UNESCO Youth Programme.
• Action Aid
• Center for Global Development (CGD)
• Development Gateway
• L’Homme, C. & Henriquez, C. (2010). Education, youth and development: UNESCO in Latin America and the Caribbean. Document prepared for the World Youth Conference, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. (1.33 Mb pdf)
• Hope or heartbreak: Aboriginal youth and Canada’s future, Horizons, 10(1), 2008. Journal is published by the Policy Research Initiative (PRI). (2.09 Mb pdf)
• Jayawardena, S. (2018). Sustainable development agenda and young people: Recognising voices and claiming rights (ARROW brief). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: ARROW. (873K pdf)
• Peace Corps. (2002). Working with youth: Approaches for volunteers (Information collection and exchange publication no. M0067). Washington, DC: Peace Corps. (2.84 Mb pdf)
• Rheingold, H. (2008). Using participatory media and public voice to encourage civic engagement. In W. L. Bennett (Ed.), Civic life online: Learning how digital media can engage youth, (pp. 97-118). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (146K pdf)
• Foundation for Development Cooperation
• UNESCO. (2004). All different, all unique: Young people and the UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity. (1.46 Mb pdf)
• Voices of Youth, UNICEF’s online place for young people to learn more about issues affecting their world.