(vi) Younger unemployed persons

The unemployment rate of young men (aged 15 24) was 16.9 in 2003, and the figure for young women was 26 .

The Youth Employment Strategy is the Government of Canada's commitment to helping young people, particularly those facing barriers to employment.

In that regard, we welcome the efforts of the Secretary General to promote the Youth Employment Network and look forward to working with other delegations to ensure that the Network can be developed in the coming months.

The Viet Nam Association of Young Entrepreneurs provides assistance to young people in starting up and running their businesses.

69. Youth employment programmes.

Each year since 1997, YES has helped over 80,000 young Canadians find employment.

The establishment of the United Nations Youth Fund and the launching of the Youth Employment Network encouraged the promotion of national action plans for youth employment.

21. There is a need to empower, mobilize and inform young people about fundamental rights at work.

I am pleased to represent here one of the leading countries of the Youth Employment Network, a major international initiative to address the challenge of youth employment globally.

57 165. Promoting youth employment

Health professionals often lack respect for young people, and the young often do not trust the professionals.

Additionally, young people highlight the need to invest in entrepreneurial activities for rural youth, e.g., by creating a fund for young rural entrepreneurs.

Young people are particularly vulnerable to unemployment.

Youth employment can serve as a tool for development.

Youth unemployment rate (age 15 24) ____________

Azerbaijan, as one of the first countries to join the Network, has recently adopted a youth policy in the form of the State Programme for Youth 2005 2009, which views the promotion of youth employment and youth entrepreneurship among its key policy directions.

(b) To young specialists and skilled workers in an amount of 80 per cent of the minimum wage, for a period of six months for young specialists and three months for young skilled workers

First, as regards youth and employment, in our National Youth Development Strategy to the Year 2010, which was approved by the Government in 2003, unemployment was identified as the biggest difficulty currently facing our young people.

Youth employment is also a priority area in the World Programme of Action for Youth.

Forty per cent of youths (15 24 years) were unemployed.

Women are represented also at the main body of the executive power in Latvia the CM.

Youth employment for social development

Offenders aged 18 21 are also regarded as young offenders and held in YOIs.

Several initiatives inspired me this year, such as the Youth Employment Spark project a youth led network for young entrepreneurs that helps young people to learn from one other and inspire others to take positive action.

It plans for employment of 1,000 young unemployed persons.

(c) Work experience employment contract for young people

The sharp increase in youth unemployment (38 million young people half of the world's jobless youth) and the implications of the tsunami disaster represent new development challenges for the region.

In addition, assistance is provided for the training of young heads of micro enterprises through the offer of self employment alternatives with the aim of integrating young people into the world of work.

Globally, young people agree that girls and young women face unequal treatment and discrimination.

In 2004 2005, UNIDIR sustained its Young Researchers programme, hosting 26 young researchers from 20 countries.

Furthermore, national youth led business funds could be established in order to provide necessary assistance to young entrepreneurs.

In order to support youth, his Government had established the National Youth Fund aimed at encouraging young people to start their own small enterprises.

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

The challenges include 200 million youth living in poverty 130 million youth illiterate 88 million unemployed and 10 million young people living with HIV AIDS.

The employment figure for 15 to 18 year olds working in Panama is 27.1 per cent 18 year olds have the highest employment rate, accounting for 40 per cent of these young workers.

For example, unemployment among qualified young people has increased considerably in recent years.

The affirmative measures to be undertaken are (1) promotion of the integration of young people into the world of work and (2) promotion of the formation of micro enterprises of young persons as a form of self employment.

To prevent child prostitution and the use of children in pornography, the National Council for Child and Adolescent Rights had approved general guidelines for the protection of children and adolescents against sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation. An Intersectoral Commission against Sexual Abuse and Commercial Sexual Exploitation had also been established.

The success of social entrepreneurship, which applies a business approach to a social concern, is identified as one underutilized solution for addressing youth unemployment.

Youth unemployment rates are typically two to three times higher than for others, and young women are particularly at risk.

In order to further reduce unemployment among young people in the country, the Government has established the National Youth Fund, which is aimed at assisting the country's young people with funding to establish small scale enterprises.

The training of rural youth for self employment scheme is designed to specifically train rural youth in skills to enable them to take up self employment.

The younger generation is also discriminated against in employment.

Syria recently became a State party to the Youth Employment Network.