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In many developing countries, informal settlements are a widespread occurrence. "Informal settlement" is sometimes misinterpreted as a shorthand for urban poverty and misery, overcrowding, and exposure to environmental dangers. This may be influenced by the fact that informal settlements lack essential infrastructural services and facilities and have a high concentration of difficulties to cities' social and political fabric.
The Youth Café, as a formidable member of the peace and security community, with a thematic area in peace and security, and actively engaging youth in the maintenance and promotion of local and international peace and security through the prevention of violent extremism, in collaboration with United Nations System Staff College, is pleased to invite you to learn more about the YPS primer. The Youth, Peace, and Security Primer, also known as the YPS Primer, is a FREE online learning tool that provides hands-on guidance and resources on promoting meaningful youth participation in peace and security efforts and is available in 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese.
The United Nations will mark 75 years of existence this year. To celebrate this anniversary, the UN has continued to stimulate conversations around the role of global cooperation and the UN that we want. The World is in the middle of a huge pandemic which has affected our normal as we know it. Due to this pandemic, major activities have been halted and this has affected major UN meetings with regard to the UN75declaration. Under the able leadership of António Guterres secretary general UN, the conversation around this declaration has continued online.
