In all my
other blogs I have talked about the harsh outcomes of the many inequalities in
the world. I have talked about gender
inequality, sexual orientation inequalities and income inequalities, all of
which had unpleasant outcomes. I am a
very positive person and it can take a lot to break my optimistic personality,
but I will admit, reading all of these articles about inequalities have really
damaged my high expectations on humanity.
I mean, I have been reading and reporting about rape, brutal attacks and
murder, and all due to income, sex, and sexual preferences.
This week I
decided to take a different path. I
wanted to not just hear and report about inequalities but I wanted to read
about what people were doing to help the mass amounts of inequality. An UN-Habitat has been doing research on the
actions and inequalities of their youth in their report: “The State of the
Urban Youth India 2013: Employment,
Livelihood, Skills.” This research was
developed by IRIS Knowledge Foundation and brought out and about by Narotam
Sekhsaria Foundation. What this study
did was address the status of youth in urban India by focusing on their health,
politics, law, hobs, education, gender, migration and other areas of opportunities
in the country.
Just a few
background facts about UN. One in every
three people in Urban India is a youth.
In saying that, in less than ten years, India’s median age will be 29,
making it the youngest nation in the world.
We often hear about enstealing certain qualities in the younger generations
because they are the ones that can change things for the future. That is UN’s goal. The growing inequalities in UN, just as any
other country, has two out comes. It may
bring about huge masses of violence or it may produce an “entrepreneurial
flowering.” The second choice is
obviously the goal UN is striving for. In
this particular report, it suggests that each state needs to develop and put
into action a “youth policy.” They want
to provide more formal youth training for job opportunities to ensure work in
the work force. There will be large
numbers of the working population and India could take advantage of the
“demographic” dividend. This would
result in an economic growth.
UN is
taking a growing problem, researching it, along with the economy and finding
ways to fix their economic inequalities.
They are taking their youth and educating them about the work force and
the economy to emit changes. I think
this is awesome. Often times we see that
the generations are getting lazier and lazier, with no motivation to help their
future, themselves or others. So,
sometimes they need that little push and UN is pushing them by trying to create
a youth policy. It is one thing to dwell
on the inequalities of the world and point fingers, and it’s a different ballpark
when one steps up to make things better.
Hannah Bay Snider
10/10/13
9:13 am
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