News, articles and events on youth employment

ILO’s Decent Work Programne makes progress in Uzbekistan

01 February 2017

Amid encouraging labour rights trends in Uzbekistan, the ILO has broadened its commitment to improve decent work and social justice in the country.

Child labour doubles in Jordan since 2007 – Survey

16 August 2016

The 2016 National Child Labour Survey finds that child labour remains a matter of grave concern with a significant number of children employed in potentially hazardous jobs.

Apprenticeship programme offers escape from child labour in Jordan

06 May 2016

A youth apprenticeship programme launched by the International Labour Organization and the International Youth Foundation makes gains in the fight against child labour in Jordan.

ILO launches report on challenges of child labour and youth employment in Arab States

Report examines the twin challenges of child labour and youth employment in five Arab States and ways to address them.

Germany signs Declaration of Intent with ILO

13 May 2014

Agreement targets work on improving labour standards in global supply chains, creating jobs for young people, eliminating the worst forms of child labour, and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples.

Impacts of the global financial and economic crisis on child labour and youth employment

02 April 2009

The current economic slowdown - retrenchments in many formal economic sectors, reductions in working hours and downward pressure on household incomes - is placing increased pressure on vulnerable households and is likely to augment the incidence of child labour and youth unemployment and underemployment in the Asia and the Pacific region.

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.

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.

ILO