In Conversation With Renu Khanna: Perspectives and Initiatives of Young People in All Their Diversity

Sonal Gupta
Sonal Gupta

Leaving no one behind (LNOB) is a promise of the transformative agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This means that patterns of exclusion, structural factors, and unequal power relations that produce and reproduce inequalities over generations have to be addressed in order to move towards formal and substantive equality for all groups in society (UNSDG 2022). In addition to identifying who is being excluded or discriminated against and who is experiencing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and inequalities through improved and disaggregated data systems, LNOB also requires meaningful participation of those ‘left behind’, including the most marginalised, in visualising ‘sustainable development’ and planning and review processes.

One such group that must be considered amongst the ‘left behind’ is young people. With young people – adolescents aged 11 to 18 years and youth aged 15 to 24 years – accounting for one-fourth of the world’s population, there is growing recognition of their potential as stakeholders in their own development. Meaningful engagement with factors that affect their wellbeing is considered a fundamental right of adolescents and young people. It is also being recognised that adolescents and young people are not a homogenous group. There exists within this demographic cohort young people with diverse forms of marginalisations and exclusions and diverse needs and concerns.

It is against this background that the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health presents this webinar hosted by Commissioner Renu Khanna. The webinar is part of an endeavour to increase visibility surrounding the issues of excluded groups so that the global health community can begin to address these concerns. In this webinar, we hope to hear from young people from diverse excluded groups what their issues and concerns are, and how policy makers and programme managers can address them.

 

Click here to register for this webinar on 6 October 2022 at 02:00 EST.


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