Fact sheet: Youth with Disabilities

• Youth with disabilities are amongst the most marginalized and poorest of all the world’s youth.
• UNESCO estimates that 98% of children with disabilities in developing countries do not attend school and 99% of girls with disabilities are illiterate.
• Youth with disabilities face dual disadvantages as individuals with disabilities are more likely to live in poverty even in developed countries

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More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict.

The World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development examines the changing nature of violence in the 21st century, and underlines the negative impact of repeated cycles of violence on a country or region’s development prospects. Preventing violence and building peaceful states that respond to the aspirations of their citizens requires strong leadership and concerted national…

Youth and HIV/AIDS

Source: UN YOUTH FLASH,Vol. 8, No.3, March 2011

In 2008, young people accounted for over 40 per cent of all new HIV infections in people aged 15 years and older. Of the 33.4 million people living with HIV globally, 4.9 million are young people between the ages of 15 and 24. Almost two-thirds of the total…