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Resources on youth employment

  1. Video Highlights of the Panel: 'Global Youth: Leading Change'

    09 June 2011

    Video highlights of the ILC 100 high-level panel “'Global Youth: Leading Change'. A discussion by young global leaders about the position of youth in society and their shared aspirations and challenges.

  2. Video Highlights of the Panel: "Arab Youth - Aspiring for Social Justice"

    09 June 2011

    Video highlights of the ILC 100 high-level panel “Arab Youth: Aspiring for Social Justice”. A group of young activists from Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen share their perspectives on what drove Arab youth to mobilize for a social change.

  3. Young voices in search of Decent Work

    09 June 2011

    Young people from Argentina, Egypt, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, South Africa and Spain share their hopes and aspirations for finding Decent Work. Shown at the 100th International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, this film kicked off a high-level panel discussion with youth leaders on the employment challenges facing young people today.

  4. Youth join green jobs push in China

    15 February 2011

    Yang Shumbo, a Chinese electronic sciences student invented a device to save electricity. He developed this into a business under a pilot project of the Greener Business Option (GBO), an ILO Green Jobs Programme initiative. GBO aims to encourage entrepreneurship in green businesses among young people. Report from Chengdu, China, by Satoshi Sasaki, Specialist on Enterprise Development and Job Creation, ILO Beijing and Vincent Jugault, Senior Specialist in Environment and Decent Work, ILO Bangkok.

  5. Policy options to support young workers during economic recovery

    14 February 2011

    This policy brief presents lessons learned from initiatives taken in past crises.

  6. International Year of Youth Briefing Session: Youth Employment

    01 February 2011

    A briefing session is being held to address youth employment on Tuesday 8 February 2011 (United Nations Headquarters)

  7. ILO Director-General Juan Somavia addresses the Global Youth Employment Conference

    02 December 2010

    ILO Director-General Juan Somavia addressed the inaugural meeting of the Global Youth Employment Agenda in London hosted by CNBC and the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. In a video-message he expressed concern over the crisis in youth employment worldwide and encouraged business to focus on investing in young people, as a way to invest in the future.

  8. 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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