News, articles and events on youth employment
August 2015
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Youth and trade unions in the Americas
11 August 2015
The ILO has published a new handbook entitled Youth and Trade Unions in the Americas. In this interview, Carmen Benitez, Regional Specialist in Workers'Education, explains the issues surrounding the topic of youth for trade union movement in the Americas.
June 2010
September 2007
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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.
May 2006
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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.