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Youth employment

Visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the ILO

Media advisory | 16 June 2014
GENEVA – The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will visit the International Labour Office and attend an ILO event on youth employment on Wednesday 18 June.


The 40-minute session will take place at 10:15 a.m. and focus on the importance of investing in quality jobs for youth, particularly those living in developing countries.

The event is an opportunity for the Secretary-General and the ILO to engage with young people worldwide, for whom employment is a prime aspiration and life goal.

Young people are facing an unprecedented jobs crisis: over 74 million are unemployed worldwide and a further 228 million are working poor. Currently, one out of two young people in the labour force is either poor or unemployed. The event will highlight some of these issues and illustrate good practices stemming from interventions to promote youth employment.

For further information, please contact ILO Spokesperson Hans von Rohland at rohland@ilo.org or phone: +4179/593-1321.