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Resources on youth employment
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Youth guarantee schemes: opportunities and challenges
05 November 2012
Listen to a group of experts talk about the benefits of youth guarantees programmes and join in the online discussion.
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Euronews interview: Guy Ryder calls for urgent action on youth unemployment
18 September 2012
"We have to get growth and jobs, which are so badly missing today, back on the international policy agenda" says Guy Ryder in an interview with Euronews on the occasion of the September 2012 employment conference of the European Commission. The ILO Director General Elect calls for universal youth guarantees to tackle the youth employment crisis.
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ILO @ Google+ Hangout on youth employment
10 August 2012
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To be young and profitable in Peru
10 August 2012
There are nearly 450,000 young people without jobs in Peru. They represent more than two thirds of the country's unemployed and of the 5 million young people who do have work, many are in "precarious" conditions, without social benefits or job security. So instead of looking for a job, many young Peruvians prefer to looking toward themselves and starting their own businesses.
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Employment far from recovery in the Eurozone, warns the ILO
10 July 2012
An ILO report warns that millions of jobs could be lost in the Eurozone. Unemployment in the single-currency area could reach almost 22 million over the next four years, according to the "Eurozone jobs crisis: trends and policy responses". ILO TV interviewed Vincenzo Spiezia, Senior Economist at ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies, which authored the report.
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RIO+20: On the scene with the ILO
18 June 2012
An interview with Peter Poschen, Director of the ILO's Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department, and Head of the Green Jobs Programme
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G20 Los Cabos: First Impressions from an ILO perspective
18 June 2012
ILO's Stephen Pursey sets the scene at the G20 Leaders Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico where ILO Director General Juan Somavia will present a joint report along with the heads of the OECD, IMF and World Bank on "Boosting Jobs and Living Standards in G20 countries".
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The International Labour Conference launches a new Call for Action to tackle the Youth Employment Crisis
14 June 2012
The unprecedented youth employment crisis, aggravated by the global financial crisis, has created a renewed sense of urgency for action. The newly adopted resolution by the ILO annual Conference 'The youth employment crisis : A call for action' proposes vigorous action around a menu of policy options to respond to the challenges faced by young people today around the world.
Watch highlights from the ILC session in which the resolution was adopted and interviews with Emalene Marcus-Burnett (Rapporteur of the 2012 International Labour Conference Committee on Youth Employment) and Azita Berar-Awad (Director of the ILO Employment Policy Department). -
Myanmar needs democracy-friendly development growth, says Aung San Suu Kyi
14 June 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi called for international aid and investment to promote economic progress in Myanmar and in particular focussed attention on the problem of youth unemployment. Highlighting the potential of her country both in terms of its natural and human resources, she noted, "it is not so much joblessness as hopelessness that threatens our future. The Nobel laureate made her landmark address to a packed Assembly Hall at the 101st session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.