In her address to the 2023 Youth Event for the International Day of Peace, the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, gave her vision of a peaceful world.

Wickramanayake said, “for me, it is a world where every young person can attend school without the fear of violence or conflict, a world where every young person can do a job that they love, that every young person can love or marry or live with the person that they choose to love, where everyone can advocate safely for their rights, and where everyone is safe from the impacts of climate change, where everyone has equal opportunities for a decent living everywhere.”

Wickramanayake was appointed as the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth in June 2017 at the age of 26.

Screenshot Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías

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