Social policies and youth Contributions from human rights

On the fifteenth anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the members of the United Nations (UN) established a new agenda -through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)- where they reiterated the importance of incorporating the framework for human rights in development strategies to reduce social inequalities. Such strategies include social policies and those aimed at youth as a socio-demographic sector. The incorporation of the human rights approach implies a modification in the traditional way of conceiving social interventions and, at the same time, the incorporation of a set of standards elaborated by the working groups dedicated to the subject - that guarantee greater universality and, consequently, reduction of social inequalities. In order to reflect the Argentine experience in these areas, we selected two case studies integrated by social programs with significant youth presence for different reasons. In one case, it is a national state action -the Programa de Respaldo a Estudiantes Argentinos- that has obtained an important massively national level and, in the other, a social program of the Provincia de San Luis regarding which, given that it deals with the interior of the country, there are few studies that obtain diffusion in comparison with the Ciudad de Buenos Aires and the Area Metropolitana.