youth

Finding decent work among major obstacles faced by today’s youth – UN report

18 December 2007
While today’s youth are the best educated generation in history, they face a number of obstacles in an increasingly globalized world – foremost among them finding decent work – which affect their transition to adulthood, according to a new United Nations report released today.

At UN, youth stress efforts to promote development

10 August 2007
More than 200 young people from around the world held a celebration today at United Nations headquarters in New York, kicking off a series of UN events to mark International Youth Day this year.

UN social development commission recommends policy measures for job creation

16 February 2007
Policy measures to generate productive jobs in a world where lack of employment poses a serious risk to millions have been put forward by the United Nations Commission for Social Development, which concluded its annual session in New York today.