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Good Practices

The ILO Youth Employment Programme has launched a call for nominations of good practices on youth employment!

Caribbean labour ministers’ meeting

Caribbean Labour Ministers commit to closer collaboration

The 8th International Labour Organization (ILO) Meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers concluded on July 3, 2013 with a commitment to deepen regional national, regional and international collaboration.

Caribbean labour ministers’ meeting

ILO Director-General calls for urgent action on youth unemployment

Guy Ryder tells Caribbean Labour ministers that it is time to act to save a “lost generation” of young people.

ILO Director-General calls for urgent action on youth unemployment

Director General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, told Caribbean Labour Ministers that there is a need to focus more closely on strategies to address youth unemployment.

European Council focuses on youth employment and growth and jobs

The ILO Office has noted with interest that the European Council of 27-28 June 2013 agreed on immediate action on EU support for youth employment. Conclusions include frontloading in 2014 and 2015 of around 8 billion euro for implementing the Youth...

UN Secretary-General talks about green entrepreneurship opportunities for young people around the world

"Entrepreneurship is about innovating, breaking down barriers, taking risks and showing that new business models can tackle longstanding problems."

Making entrepreneurship a real option for young people in the Pacific

The ILO promotes the importance of entrepreneurship education as part of a lifelong learning strategy, that can contribute to increasing the employability of young people by building an entrepreneurial mind-set, positive attitudes, self-confidence,...

Youth Employment Video Contest: Youth labour migration “Reaping the benefits, minimizing the risks”

102nd International Labour Conference

Van Rompuy: Growth and jobs are the ultimate goal of all reforms

Ahead of the European Council meeting, European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, addresses the International Labour Conference and says that the ILO has a key role to play in helping to address the challenges that Europe faces.

Time to act on the youth employment crisis

Experts and diplomats present the ILO's new study on the continuing job crisis affecting young people.

Emphasis on need for sectoral approach

The need for young men and women to be involved in entrepreneurship development and opportunities in the Pacific - recognising employment as a major issue among youths in the Pacific.

ILO steps up cooperation in youth employment with Azerbaijan

On May 30 Azerbaijan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alekperov met with ILO Moscow Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva to discuss the implementation of ILO’s new project Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of...

Youth employment

A forum for the voice of youth

A new interactive on-line platform aims to engage young people and find solutions to the youth employment crisis.

ASEAN countries team up to tackle youth unemployment

Indonesia, supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and ASEAN Secretariat, is hosting a one-day ASEAN Forum on Youth Employment on Monday, 13 May 2013, in Semarang, Central Java.

5th African University on Youth and Development

Young African and African Diaspora leaders, gathered at the Conference on Post-2015 Agenda on Population/Youth Employment, adopted the Declaration of Mindelo entitled “Decent Work for Youth Development” to promote youth employment, good governance,...

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013

Youth jobs’ gains wiped out by slow recovery

A new ILO report says the long-term impact of the youth employment crisis could be felt for decades, creating a generation at risk of suffering decent work deficits throughout their lives.

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013

Informal, poorly paid and unemployed: The reality of work for most youth in developing countries

School-to-work transition surveys of developing countries show that youth are far more likely to land low quality jobs in the informal economy than jobs paying decent wages and offering benefits. Access to education and training remains a major...

Long term youth unemployment causes generation's distrust

A new ILO report says the long-term impact of the youth employment crisis could be felt for decades, creating a generation at risk of suffering decent work deficits throughout their lives and causing distrust in the socio-economic and political...

Global youth unemployment rate to reach 13 per cent this year: ILO

The world youth unemployment rate this year is close to its crisis peak and is not expected to decline before 2018, according to a new ILO report. Unemployment rate among young people in Viet Nam is also more than three times higher than the adult...

ITU Telecom World 2013 Young Innovators Competition

The Young Innovators Competition seeks to foster innovative ideas amongst the next generation of social entrepreneurs working to change the world through technology.