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12 January 2015 | Poverty Eradication, Youth
Unemployment remains a major challenge in Georgia, despite reform efforts and relatively strong economic growth over the past decade. At about 14.6% in 2013, the unemployment rate has dropped slightly in recent years but this has been due mostly to…
12 January 2015 | Poverty Eradication, Youth
Unemployment remains a major challenge in Georgia, despite reform efforts and relatively strong economic growth over the past decade. At about 14.6% in 2013, the unemployment rate has dropped slightly in recent years but this has been due mostly to…
09 January 2015 | Poverty Eradication, Youth
Recent school closures in Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zour governorates and parts of rural Aleppo in Syria have disrupted the education of some 670,000 children of primary and lower-high school age, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today…
09 January 2015 | Poverty Eradication, Youth
Recent school closures in Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zour governorates and parts of rural Aleppo in Syria have disrupted the education of some 670,000 children of primary and lower-high school age, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today…
22 December 2014 | Youth
The Global Forum on Youth Policies was convened, on 28-30 October 2014 in Azerbaijan, by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth together with UNDP, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the host country.
The objective of the Forum was to…
28 November 2014 | Disabilities, Youth
For generations, the pastorialists of Samburu, a nomadic county 400 kilometers north of Nairobi, have roamed from place to place in search of water and pasture for their animals.
“In such nomadic communities, it is sometimes common for children born…
28 November 2014 | Disabilities, Youth
For generations, the pastorialists of Samburu, a nomadic county 400 kilometers north of Nairobi, have roamed from place to place in search of water and pasture for their animals.
“In such nomadic communities, it is sometimes common for children born…
24 November 2014 | Youth
A total of ten young entrepreneurs in Cameroon are going into business this week thanks to collateral-free loans they won at the end of an entrepreneurship event that received the technical support of the Economic Commission for Africa.
The ten were…
19 November 2014 | Youth
ITU Telecom has announced the winners of its fourth annual Young Innovators’ Competition. Open to young social entrepreneurs between ages 18 and 30 from around the world, the competition sought innovative digital solutions with positive social…
19 November 2014 | Youth
Sports are indisputably the most popular leisure activities among youths in Zambia. In the lead-up to the 2011 elections, UNDP supported the capacity development of national institutions including civil society organizations to strengthen a…
18 November 2014 | Youth
Developing countries with large youth populations could see their economies soar, provided they invest heavily in young people’s education and health and protect their rights, according to The State of World Population 2014, published today by UNFPA…
03 November 2014 | Youth
The safe use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by children and adolescents in the region can help ensure the fulfillment of their rights, according to two documents released today by the Economic Commission for Latin America and…