Global and regional outlook for youth employment, Youth labour markets from development perspective, youth labour market transitions, policies for youth employment.

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015 A generation at risk – Scaling up investments

In fact, that many youth are giving up on the job search. The prolonged jobs crisis also forces the current generation of youth to be less selective about the type of job they are prepared to accept, a tendency that was already evident before the crisis. Increasing numbers of youth are now turning to available part-time jobs or find themselves stuck in temporary employment. Secure jobs, which were once the norm for previous generations – at least in the advanced economies – have become less easily accessible for today’s youth.

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of relevant laws, policies, and practices that either obstruct or promote minors’ access to health services and information. It considers the extent of minors’ informed decision-making capacity regarding health services and information, and explores how it can be fostered and developed. While its specific focus is decision-making in the health context, much of this paper is relevant to sexual decision-making generally.

Young people’s autonomous decision-making capacities

This paper discusses ideas concerning childhood and young people in different societies and disciplines, and in international law. In so doing, it highlights disparities in general concepts and experiences of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, across different times and cultures.

What is childhood and what do we mean by ‘young person’?

Young people’s capacity to exercise autonomy, choice and independence in relation to their sexual and reproductive health varies enormously between and within different countries, cultures and contexts, as do the legal systems that support or diminish these rights. Making cross-national comparisons of research, policy and practice is complex since it requires knowledge of the specific national social, demographic and economic contexts.

Understanding young people’s right to decide