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- Economic and social development
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- Equality and discrimination
- Forced labour
- Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
- Green jobs
- HIV/AIDS
- Labour administration and inspection
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- Millennium Development Goals
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- Working conditions
- Youth employment
Resources on youth employment
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ECLAC and ILO Predict that Unemployment Will Fall Again to 6.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012
05 November 2012
The two United Nations agencies indicate that there remain structural problems that have a negative effect on the labour market situation of young people.
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ILO opens International Forum on “Employment, Youth and Democratic Governance”, calling for more and better jobs for young people
13 December 2011
At 14.4 per cent, the youth unemployment rate is double the general rate, and 60 per cent of young workers are in informal jobs. Eminent personalities are meeting in Lima to take part in the Forum.
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Decent Work and Youth in Latin America, 2010
05 October 2011
This report takes stock of progress and setbacks with respect to the problems identified in the report published in 2007.
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Argentina’s Response to Economic Crisis Through Social Protection
16 November 2010
Record unemployment is one of the consequences of the global economic crisis, but in Argentina, fewer jobs were lost in the crisis than in many other countries. A new report from the ILO found that’s because Argentina learned some lessons from a bitter experience in the past, and protected jobs when hard times came around again.
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2008 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean
01 July 2009
This edition provides evidence of the effects of an unprecedented international crisis that has cast a shadow over the global economy and is reflected in the employment situation in the region. Employment will be a challenge in 2009. As ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia stated, "The ILO's message is realistic, not alarmist" with respect to this situation.
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Wanted: Job with decent wage
27 October 2006
Youth unemployment is a persistent problem in Latin America, but there is also a need to improve the quality of jobs, according to a new report repared by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Luis Cordova reports from Santiago de Chile for ILO OnLine.
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Regional Meeting for the Americas 2-5 May: Youth employment in Latin America: Overcoming a lost decade
03 May 2006
In Latin America, 9.5 million young people out of 57 million aged 15-24 are unemployed. Victims of the "lost decade", they were born between 1980 and 1990 and represent 42 per cent of open unemployment in the region. According to the report prepared for the ILO Regional Meeting for the Americas, the situation is even worse if we take account of the 21 per cent of youth in the region who "do not work nor study". And millions of youth are trapped in temporary and casual jobs that offer no labour or social protection and few prospects for advancement. ILO Online reports from Bolivia.