Youth in latin america and the caribbean in perspective: Overview of the situation, challenges and promising interventions

Abstract

This article approaches, from a youth perspective, an overview of the situation of youth in Latin America and the Caribbean based on global and regional socio-economic and demo-graphic indicators. It provides an intersectional analysis of the oppressions and challenges that young people face to achieve their full potential within a complex structure of power relations, inequality, exclusion, discrimination and violen-ce. Based on the evidence, it highlights effective and promising interventions for guiding invest-ment in youth through public policies, budgets and programmes at scale, as measures for redis-tributing power and resources that contribute to the fulfilment of their human rights, autonomy, emancipation and agency to participate in public affairs that affect them.