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23 May 2014 | Youth
The ECOSOC Forum on Youth 2-3 June in New York is approaching fast. Building on input from over 1.2 million young people who voted in the MyWorld2015 survey, as well as the outcome of the crowdsourcing platform launched earlier this year, the United…
09 May 2014 | Youth
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), over 40 percent of Albania’s youth are unemployed. One of the challenges young people face when seeking gainful employment, is the lack of skills and education to respond to market needs.…
29 April 2014 | Women, Youth
The annual International Girls in ICT Day is a global initiative that aims to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the growing field of information and communication technologies (…
29 April 2014 | Women, Youth
The annual International Girls in ICT Day is a global initiative that aims to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the growing field of information and communication technologies (…
22 April 2014 | Families, Youth
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding to help increase access to family planning information, contraceptives and services in developing countries, particularly for…
22 April 2014 | Families, Youth
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding to help increase access to family planning information, contraceptives and services in developing countries, particularly for…
09 April 2014 | Youth
There can be no talk for social development and empowerment when still an estimated 168 million children are in child labour worldwide, doing work that affects their health and personal development and which deprives them of schooling, their…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
09 April 2014 | Ageing, Poverty Eradication, Women, Youth
Twenty years ago, the international community gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to explore how the world was changing and how those changes were affecting the most vulnerable. At the 1994 meeting, the International Conference on Population and Development (…
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…