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07 April 2014 | Indigenous Peoples, Women, Youth
Guatemala’s population is one of the youngest, fastest-growing and least educated in Latin America. More than 2 million children in Guatemala do not attend school. Most of them are indigenous girls living in rural areas. Nearly half of the…
31 March 2014 | Families, Women, Youth
Financial and infrastructure support for small-scale family farmers is crucial to winning the fight against hunger around the world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on March 5th 2014, urging Governments to create polices…
31 March 2014 | Families, Women, Youth
Financial and infrastructure support for small-scale family farmers is crucial to winning the fight against hunger around the world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on March 5th 2014, urging Governments to create polices…
31 March 2014 | Families, Women, Youth
Financial and infrastructure support for small-scale family farmers is crucial to winning the fight against hunger around the world, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on March 5th 2014, urging Governments to create polices…
17 March 2014 | Youth
Youth empowerment and youth employment are the key elements of successful social development strategies, worldwide. In order to build capacity of unemployed youth and for young people to be able to compete in the labor market, the United Nations…
26 February 2014 | Youth
According to a recent report from the International Labor Organization, the global unemployment in 2013 reached almost 202 million. This proves that the weak global economic recovery has failed to lead to an improvement in global labor markets.…
25 February 2014 | Youth
Agriculture is not glamorous. It suffers from entrenched negative perceptions. In the minds of many African youths, a farmer is someone like their parents, doing backbreaking labour in the fields and getting little to show for it. Nonetheless,…
19 February 2014 | Youth
The Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, in partnership with other UN entities, international NGOs, and youth groups and stakeholders, launched a crowdsourcing initiative for youth priorities in the post-2015 development agenda. The…
18 February 2014 | Youth
A global initiative to empower young entrepreneurs for positive change
The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is an international contest launched by The Goi Peace Foundation, Stiftung Entrepreneurship (Berlin) and UNESCO.
The competition…
14 February 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Youth
Employment remained a challenge for persons with disabilities in many countries, a United Nations expert told the Commission for Social Development.
Shuaib Chalklen, the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Disability, urged Member States to…
14 February 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Youth
Employment remained a challenge for persons with disabilities in many countries, a United Nations expert told the Commission for Social Development.
Shuaib Chalklen, the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Disability, urged Member States to…
14 February 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Youth
Employment remained a challenge for persons with disabilities in many countries, a United Nations expert told the Commission for Social Development.
Shuaib Chalklen, the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Disability, urged Member States to…