International Youth Day is commemorated on 12th August each year. This day is set aside to value and celebrate the young crowd around the world.
Youth is the spirit of a society. They play a crucial role in each society, group and also as a unique individual with lots of abilities, creativity and strength. Youth is the golden age of life. They have the ability to change a society and develop a society with their own personal development. As they have more energy and also mostly in good health, they mostly have the ability to do anything they like. Young people are good with their brain. It makes them more creative. They have nice ideas within them. They are fast learners with dedication and young perspective. They challenge traditional norms, question conventional thinking and use their young minds to gift this society something to move a step forward. They like to work with each other by bonding up as groups. They like to build up friendships and make a task success by working together as a group. They pay their attention to small stuff and be sensitive to weaker people and people who need a support from others for living. They have the energy and attitudes within them. The society should give them the opportunity to arise and guide them towards the correct goals.
International youth day draw peoples’ attention to value the youth. To value their rights. To value their needs. To value their dreams. To celebrate their partnership in a society by playing a crucial role.
Youth have their own rights to live in a safe environment, to a healthy life, to express their ideas and feelings, to education, to peaceful assembly and association and to live freely as all other human beings. Youth should have the right to full enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedom. They are human too.
Young people should not face ageism by depending on their age. Ageism is just like racism and sexism. It is a form of discrimination and prejudice. It affects young people by limiting and restricting them by making injustice boundaries around them, depending on their age. It affect their freedom, attitudes, believes, abilities, and their life by making negative impacts. Ageism prevent young people by enjoying their rights such as freedom to vote, freedom to speech, freedom to assembly, protection against cruel and unusual punishments, right to body integrity, right to make decisions concerning education and right to live their own free life.
Youth means hope. Youth means the strength. Youth means beginning. Youth means everything. Youth should be valued. They should be appreciated. They should be respected. They should be celebrated. Their rights should be protected. They should have the freedom. They should have the chance to bloom and arise as the sun. To make things change. To make things better. To make things right. To uplift the world. Youth should be celebrated.
Happy International Youth Day!
