Resources on youth employment

ILO launches a video contest on Decent Work for Youth

08 March 2012

Are you between the ages of 18 and 29 years? Struggling to find a job or working under poor conditions? Want things to change? Make a video expressing your views and get a chance to present it at the Youth Employment Forum in Geneva.
ILO holds global consultation of young people on youth jobs crisis

02 March 2012

The ILO is holding events in 46 countries around the world throughout March and April to hear young people’s views on the alarming youth employment situation.
ILO warns youth job crisis threatens social cohesion, calls for more and better jobs for youth

27 February 2012

Addressing a special event organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York, the head of the ILO Employment Sector, José-Manuel Salazar, has warned of the risks of a lost generation due to a growing youth employment crisis, and called for new and stronger partnerships to create more and better jobs for young people.
Somavia puts the accent on youth employment in Davos

27 January 2012

ILO Director-General Juan Somavia has called for a new policy paradigm to promote inclusive job-rich growth for the almost 75 million unemployed youth aged 15-24 worldwide.
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.
Youth leaders tell ILO they need “jobs”, but express optimism for the future

10 June 2011

Youth leaders from around the world told the annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) they need “jobs”, but expressed optimism that their efforts would eventually result in employment, more equitable societies and decent work.
YEN launches a grant scheme in the Mano River Union to promote youth employment

01 December 2008

On December 1, 2008, the Youth Employment Network (YEN) will launch a competitive grant scheme for youth led organizations in the Mano River Union (Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone). Applicants can apply for grants between USD 2’000 and 50’000.
ILO and Germany sign two supplementary agreements

01 December 2008

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed two supplementary agreements to promote the ILO’s Decent Work Country Programmes and the Global Labour University in South Africa.
Experts from seven South-East European countries discussed the youth employment challenge

12 December 2007

Despite increased economic growth, the inability of economies to create enough decent and productive jobs is hitting youth especially hard, experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia concluded at a meeting here on 6 and 7 December.
Unemployment, informality and inactivity menace young people in Latin America and the Caribbean

04 September 2007

ILO calls for better use of the growth, development and poverty reduction potential of 106 million youth in the region.