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Article: Youth: positive prospects, problems, possibilities.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- January 1, 1986
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Youth: positive prospects, problems, possibilities
* In Sri Lanka, village youths in Millaniya, where many suffer from contaminated water-related diseases, have worked with a group of 21 Boy Scouts from Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, to dig new wells, build sanitary latrines and inform the local population about the links between water, waste disposal and disease.
* In Strasbourg, France, a group of young people meet at the European Youth Centre to discuss the right to be "conscientious objectors" to military service, the subject of one provision of the European Convention on Human Rights.
* Algeria organized its First National Youth Festival in ...