(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

(a) Special job schemes for young people.

102. Work experience contracts for young people

Young workers (art. 202 of the Labour Code)

(c) Work experience employment contract for young people

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.

364. In accordance with the Act of 26 June 1974, the Labour Code, an adolescent (young person) is a person who is over 15 and no more than 18 years of age.

A survey of the opinion of people working with young persons teachers, vocational counsellors and youth workers on prostitution was made (autumn 2002).

The number of adolescents working in individual farming constitutes 86 per cent of youth working as a source of income.

At the same time young people do not register at labour offices.

Compared with older workers, young persons are affected by long term unemployment to a considerably smaller extent.

Young people and youth non governmental organizations should be seen as tools and partners in integration processes.

On 10 January, youths erected barricades and threw stones in the working class districts of Kinshasa some of them engaged in looting.

Young people are made aware of the work of the youth counselling centres also through other sexual education projects.

Most often the young people perform their jobs on a part time basis (see table 30).

Planning HIV AIDS Prevention Programmes by Youth in Africa, a manual for youth workers and youths with HIV AIDS in Africa, to be published soon by the Commonwealth Youth Programme

Segment 3 Young people and their well being

Next year we will be carrying out the first youth survey, which will give us an initial baseline as to the actual situation of youth and thereby help us adapt our intervention planning aimed at young people.

In 2003 the counselling service was advocated among Russian speaking youths, in 2004 efforts were directed to informing young men.

This suggests that cities must work to include youth and marginal populations, to train those who work with young people, to recognize youth as a force for change rather than a problem and to facilitate their participation in decision making.

The employment programmes for young persons include the Equity and Work Promotion Programme for Young People, which intends to promote better opportunities for the young in the work environment by affirmative measures promoting their incorporation into productive work and the creation of formal self employment opportunities in conditions of equity.

Youth and their organizations should play a leading role in that work.

The Global Youth Network against Drug Abuse project now links approximately 300 youth groups and community based organizations working on the prevention of substance abuse among young people.

A short history of youth work in Zambia (1988)

It is interesting that the vast majority of youth work in the informal sector of the economy more than two thirds of young employed persons work in the grey economy .

UN Habitat and youth strategy for enhanced engagement, a working document

Well, young man, you seem to be enjoying yourself.

Girl and Adolescent Domestic Employees, 1992

Zambia

Many UN Habitat initiatives focused on youth have had successful outcomes and provide models for future work of UN Habitat with youth, but the scale of the urban youth problem is such that it requires efforts to mainstream it across the entire UN Habitat programme.

Youth.

To involve and empower young people, UNFPA established a youth advisory panel, a special youth programme, and sponsored the participation of young people in regional consultations to develop the UNAIDS unified budget and workplan for 2006 2007.

The engagement of youth in the work of UN Habitat can be further advanced through the inclusion by Governments of youth or a youth subcommittee within those national steering organs.

The world's young people are using their leisure time to become involved in volunteer work.

But a great deal more needs to be done to highlight the needs of young people.

Efforts should be made to ensure that these forms of work experience do not exploit youth.

Jobs in which the employment of teenagers is prohibited, as well as exceptions when employment in such jobs is permitted in relation to the vocational training of the teenager are provided by the CM.

Young people widely agree that youth developed, youth friendly educational programmes and policies are effective in convincing young people of the harm caused by substances.

At the same time, young people are marginalized when Governments do not respect the right to health, education and decent work.

1996 Seminar on child and adolescent labour (Paraguay)

Nothing will be achieved for young people without the participation of young people.

Segment 3 Young people and their well being (chaired by H.E. Ms. Azalina Othman Said, Minister of Youth and Sports of Malaysia)

While the previous minimum wage differed for youth under 16 years of age and workers in off road communities, the new minimum wage is the same for everyone regardless of their age or location of work.

It had the highest suicide rate among young people in the industrialized countries.

62. Encourages youth organizations and young persons from various non governmental organizations to participate in the meetings of the Working Group