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Palestine has world’s highest unemployment rate, and it’s unsustainable: UNCTAD

Palestine has world’s highest unemployment rate, and it’s unsustainable: UNCTAD

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Life in the Occupied Palestine Territories is unsustainable and - with nearly one in three people out of a job - it also has the world’s highest unemployment rate, a top UN official said on Wednesday.

In its latest report on life under occupation, the UN Trade and Development agency, UNCTAD, also found that nearly a quarter of a million children were in need of psychosocial support in 2017.

Isabelle Durant, UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General, has been speaking to UN News’s Jens Renner.

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