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June 2013

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   Asia-Pacific YouthNet Talk show

   Youth employment in Afghanistan

   04 June 2013

   Armed conflicts destroy socioeconomic infrastructure, the means of production, natural and human resources, and vast numbers of jobs. When conflict ends, youth employment is critical to stability since young people have a valuable role in the peacebuilding process. In this show, Herve Berger of the ILO discusses the role of youth employment in Afghanistan, the barriers young Afghans face in gaining decent work, and how they can be supported.

March 2013

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   Entrepreneurship skills

   Afghan women unleashing their business potential

   01 March 2013

   How entrepreneurship enabled an Afghan woman to create a successful company and help other women do the same.

June 2012

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   Article

   Working a childhood away in Afghanistan’s kilns

   07 June 2012

   Children as young as five work as brick makers in Afghanistan’s kilns, as poverty and debt keep their families in low-wage bonded labour. Tackling the issue is far more complex than just banning child labour in the kilns, the ILO says.

February 2012

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   Q&A

   Buried in bricks: Bonded labour in Afghanistan

   06 February 2012

   Bonded labour of adults and children in brick kilns is one of the most prevalent, yet least known forms of hazardous labour in Afghanistan. A new ILO study on the phenomenon marks the first attempt to provide a better understanding of the dynamics of bonded labour in two provinces of the country. ILO Online spoke with Samuel Hall consulting, lead author of the study.

April 2007

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   Afghanistan: Women Entrepreneurs

   20 April 2007

   Afghan women are taking their handicraft skills to the market and playing an active role in the country's reconstruction and development.

March 2007

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   Video

   Afghanistan: Women Entrepreneurs

   26 March 2007

   More than two decades of conflict have crippled Afghanistan’s economy. But some Afghan women are taking their handicraft skills to the market and playing an active role in the country’s reconstruction and development as ILO TV reports: