The involvement of UN started with UNESCO undertaking sectoral research in 2003 with the aim of understanding Lebanese youth challenges and needs and organizing a national conference gathering around 200 youth organizations, which was held in 2005.

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Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said there had been a long history of youth unemployment in the UK, but it had got considerably worse in the last couple of years.

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Irina Bokova held also bilateral meetings with the Minister of Education Boubekeur Benbouzid, the Minister of Culture Khalida Toumi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mourad Medelci, the Minister of Youth and Sports El Hachemi Djiar and the Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

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Kevin Guskiewicz, director of the University of North Carolina's Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, said the "vast majority" of kids playing in youth football leagues aren't going to have the type of exposure to injury NFL players have.

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One suggestion is that lax password security is a cultural remnant of the internet's innocent youth an academic research network has few reasons to worry about hackers.

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This benefits our research insights as we can dive deeper than normal researchers into the lives of Chinese youth.

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It included a research phase followed by a consensus building effort on the national policy in favour of youth framework involving youth and key policy makers.

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