The State of the World’s Children 2011: Adolescence – An age of opportunity

Today's youth faces an increasingly uncertain world where climate change, rapid urbanization, the economic recession and rising unemployment pose unprecedented challenges. There are 1.2 billion adolescents across the world, nine out of ten of these young people live in developing countries. Millions are denied their basic rights to quality education, health care, protection and exposed to abuse and exploitation. The report highlights the singular opportunities that adolescence offers, both for adolescents themselves and for the societies they live in.
 

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