Videos
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How do businesses in Afghanistan benefit from the application of the international labour standards?
19 November 2020
The ILO’s Road to Jobs project is supporting enterprise development and job creation in Afghanistan through the market systems approach. Through its interventions, the project has been able to increase awareness of, and assist with the application of international labour standards. Ultimately, businesses have benefited from the best practices in the world of work.
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Training young people to fulfil real needs in the rural economy
04 September 2017
Deborah Greenfield, ILO Deputy Director-General, speaks about how training rural youth to become barefoot technicians has helped provide solutions to local challenges in maintaining rural works and in employment generation.
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Educated youth migrate for a brighter future
09 August 2013
In the ongoing global jobs crisis, many of Europe’s most educated young people are learning a bitter lesson; for highly educated young people, it’s becoming very hard to find a job which matches the skills acquired at university. It’s a particular problem in Portugal, where nearly 2 in 5 young people are unemployed. Now, many of Portugal’s best and brightest are looking for opportunities abroad, leaving their country. (Closed captions available)