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What you need to know:
More young people than
ever… 1 person in 5 in the world is aged between 15 and
24. 85% of these young people live in developing countries.
Young people are unemployed… 88 million young
people are unemployed and about 75 million of these are living in the
developing world.
Young people are also the underemployed working
poor… About 1/5 of the world’s working poor are
young men and women, with 238 million young people earning less than 1$
per day.
Young women are more
disadvantaged… Young women face higher
unemployment rates than young men, daily confronting widespread
discrimination in education, jobs and pay.
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News
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Between June 1st 2009 – September 30th 2009, youth from around the world will be able to create and submit videos to the PLURAL + Video Festival, on the themes of migration, diversity, and identity. The festival is the brainchild of the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and is the product of collaboration with a number of other important partners. The Festival aims to promote youth involvement and dialogue in the areas of migration and diversity. UNAOC and IOM plan to bring selected videos to the attention of policy makers providing an opportunity for young people's opinions on the successes or deficiencies of present migration policies to be heard both by the public and policy-makers in their respective countries and abroad.
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The 4th Fagforbundet Youth Summer Conference was held in Stavern, Norway from 19-21 June. Over 160 young participants joined in the attractive and interactive programme of this summer conference. Indah Budiarti from the PSI Asia Pacific office, attended the conference and sent us this report.
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The Norwegian trade union centre LO has set up its Summer Patrol in order to ensure that young people are not exploited in their summer jobs, but are fully aware of their rights and confident that they will be respected.
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University of Malaya General Staff Union (UMGSU), Malaysia , Youth Committee organised a training workshop from 27 May to 30 May 2009 at Gunung Ledang Resort, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
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 «Our overall goal is to involve more and more young members who can take an active and influential role within their unions. Ideally, unions embrace young people into their decision-making processes. After all, young people are the future!»
Linn Hemmingsen (Norway) is chairing the European Youth Forum since November 2004.
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Young people are constantly told “you are the future”, but it is important to remember they are the partners of today as well. PSI supports young people who want to have a say in decision-making and in the changes which affect their lives. To achieve sustainable change, young people need to be able to speak; and they need to be listened to.
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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY 2008
12 AUGUST
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"Giving Young Workers a VOICE in Trade Unions!" download it now!
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What is going on?
Training & Education activities
Click on one of the regions below to get information on young workers' regional activities.
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Contact us
PSI's Equality & Rights Officer can be contacted at:
equality@world-psi.org
phone: +33 (0)4 50 40 64 64
fax: +33 (0)4 50 40 73 20
or write to:
Equality & Rights Officer
Public Services International
45, avenue Voltaire
BP 9
01211 Ferney Voltaire Cedex
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