News, articles and events on youth employment
September 2020
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Targeted responses needed to combat youth employment crisis - ADB & ILO report
10 September 2020
The joint Tackling the COVID-19 Youth Employment Crisis in Asia and the Pacific report says COVID-19 has triggered a massive disruption of labour markets which has had a disproportionate impact on youth unemployment.
August 2014
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© Robert Harding / AFP 2022
ILO to promote decent work in Small Island Developing States at SIDS Conference in Samoa
25 August 2014
March 2014
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© Robert Harding / AFP 2022
UN Conference on Small Island Developing States
The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, under the theme Sustainable Development through Genuine and Durable Partnerships.
August 2007
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Asian Employment Forum: Youth employment: “We are not the problem, we are the solution”
09 August 2007
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 workforce is projected to decline by 2015, a new report prepared for the ILO’s Asian Employment Forum (to be held in Beijing on 13-15 August) says that for many countries in South East Asia and the Pacific, the youth employment challenge remains huge. ILO Online reports.