04 August 2008
When a country has a mismatch between what its labour market needs and the education and skills of its young people - what’s the answer? Kyrgyzstan is working hard to address this imbalance by training young women and men in job skills that are actually in demand in its transformed economy.
12 July 2008
ILO TV reports for CNN World Report from Liberia, where road-building is part of a multi-lateral effort to help the country get back on its feet and people back into jobs.
30 June 2008
After years of conflict, Liberia is on a new path to recovery. A wide array of multi-lateral agencies, including the International Labour Organization are on the scene to help. These efforts include the building of a road, which will link villages in Mount Barclay to the main market town. Not only will this stimulate the local agricultural economy, the labour-based construction method is also creating much needed jobs, as ILO TV reports.
02 October 2006
Nearly half of young people in Asia are unemployed. In Angono, the Art Capital of the Philippines, employers’ organisations are working with aspiring young artists to help them make a start in the art market.
02 October 2006
As International Youth Day approaches (August 12th), summer is the time for music festivals in Europe and elsewhere, but the EXIT Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, is a festival with a social conscience that is turning its attention to the problems of unemployed young people as ILO TV reports: