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Employment challenges for rural youth to be discussed at regional meeting

Delegates from seven Asian countries are expected to attend the meeting, “Addressing Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Youth Employment in Asia”, which will be held in Chiang Mai from 17 - 19 August. About 30 participants from China, Cambodia,...

Gender Equality in the Workplace Workshop, Papua New Guinea

A workshop on gender equality in the workplace is held in Lamana Hotel in Port Moresby from 10 to 13 August 2009. The workshop was opened by Honorable Power Parkop, Member of the Parliament and Governor of the National Capital District. ...

FCCISL - Key note address on youth and women entrepreneurship

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

Commemoration of the ILO 90 Years: Promoting youth employment, it is everybody’s business

The world is facing a growing youth unemployment crisis. The latest ILO data indicates that out of the world’s estimated 190.2 million unemployed people in 2008, around nearly 75.9 millions are aged between 15 and 24. In many economies, young...

Tackling youth unemployment through youth entrepreneurship

The promotion of youth employment is one of the most critical challenges Indonesia is facing today. Nearly 2 million Indonesian young women and men enter the labour market each year. Nationwide, Indonesia’s youth is six times more likely than adults...

Getting an education in Papua

By Urmila Sarkar, Child Labour and Youth Employment Specialist, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Papua, home to 50 million indigenous people and 300-400 distinct indigenous communities with their own languages, beliefs and livelihoods, is...

Speech at the KAB Annual Review Meeting

By Mr Zhang Guoqing, Deputy Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

Mary Robinson, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent...

Heather Grady, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent...

Jordan Ryan, UN Resident Coordinator in Liberia. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to...

ILO and YTEPP team up to produce small business manual for young entrepreneurs

The Youth Training and Employment Partnership Programme Ltd (YTEPP) has teamed up with the International Labour Organization, Subregional Office for the Caribbean, to produce an adapted version of the ILO's "Start Your Business manual for potential...

Breaking gender barriers: A young woman’s quest in a male-dominated profession

One billion people will reach working age within the next decade – the best educated and best trained generation of young men and especially young women ever. But despite great efforts carried out by governments and social partners, the youth...

Gender equality campaign

Breaking gender barriers for young women and men

Despite efforts by the international community, gender stereotyping and employment barriers continue to affect millions of young women and men around the world, said the International Labour Organization today on the occasion of International Youth...

Australia provides support for youth employment in Timor-Leste

The press release focuses on The YEP Programme which will provide job opportunities for up to 70,000 in-school and out-of-school young women and men across all districts through career guidance, self-employment promotion, and short-term employment...

Opening speech at Know About Business Annual Review Meeting

By Ms Constance Thomas, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

The Pacifc’s youth employment challenge

By Aurelio Parisotta, INTEGRATION, ILO Geneva; Margaret Reade Rounds, ILO Suva & Urmila Sarkar, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. There are many obstacles facing young people like Genevieve who want to get an education and a job in the...

Asian Employment Forum: Youth employment: “We are not the problem, we are the solution”

According to the latest figures Asia’s 378 million-strong youth labour force accounts for more than one in five of the region’s total labour force and 58 per cent of the global youth labour force. Although the proportion of young people in the...

Issyk-Kul seminar focuses on gender equality and youth employment

Gender equality, employment and youth problems were high on the agenda of the national workshop held in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, on June 19-21. The workshop was organized within the framework of the ILO/Netherlands project on boosting youth employment.

ILO Governing Body opens 297th session: Labour situation in Belarus and Myanmar will be discussed, along with youth employment and labour...

The Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) will address a wide range of issues at its 297th session beginning here today, including basic labour rights in Myanmar and Belarus, the ILO response to the post-crisis situation in Lebanon...

Wanted: Job with decent wage

Youth unemployment is a persistent problem in Latin America, but there is also a need to improve the quality of jobs, according to a new report repared by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Luis Cordova reports from Santiago de Chile for...