Tomorrow is International Youth Day

In 1999, the UN designated August 12 as International Youth Day. This year's theme is “Tackling Poverty Together”. If you'd like to mark the occasion with a trip around the Web:

• Slate is celebrating with a collection of photographs.
• Make Your Mark - start talking ideas is loaded up with resources for the next generation of social entrepreneurs (and regular entrepreneurs) in the UK. Look out for Enterprise Week in November.
• SocialEdge has a discussion going on engaging youth to be social entrepreneurs.
• Winners of the World Bank's youth essay competition have been announced.
• Youthink!, the World Bank's youth advocacy site, won a Webby for activism.
• UNICEF's State of the World’s Children 2006: Excluded and Invisible is a must-read (also a Webby winner). One item from their fact sheet:

The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 246 million children between 5 and 17 are engaged in child labour. Of these, nearly 70 per cent are working in hazardous conditions – in mines, with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or with dangerous machinery. Some 73 million of them are less than 10 years old.

Look for the World Development Report 2007 to be released during the upcoming IMF-World Bank annual meeting in Singapore. This year's theme: youth.