UN advocates more job opportunities for young people

In his message for World Youth Skills Day, the UN chief emphasized that the date is an opportunity to reflect on how new women and men generations can gain the capabilities necessary for their future development and to promote innovation and sustainability.

According to UN reports, youth are continually exposed to lower-quality jobs, as well as to greater inequalities in the labor market and school transitions to are long and precarious.

In addition, women are more likely to be underemployed and poorly paid, and to work on time, which is why the multilateral organization defends access to the United States. education and training as fundamental factors of success in the labor market.

Unfortunately, existing systems do not meet learning needs.

Many young people, and surveys show that many of them have low levels of literacy and elementary arithmetic.

To raise awareness of the importance of investing in skills development for the new generations, the UN General Assembly on July 15 as World Youth Skills Day.

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