As an active contributor to the Youth Employment Network, ILO had a special role to play in promoting youth employment and could act as a catalyst in mobilizing support and implementing integrated policies and programmes to effectively meet the Millennium Declaration's commitment on decent and productive work for youth.

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The establishment of the United Nations Youth Fund and the launching of the Youth Employment Network encouraged the promotion of national action plans for youth employment.

The Employment Contracts Act

Foreign Nationals (Employment) Act

Employment of Minorities (Promotion) Act

Youth employment is also a priority area in the World Programme of Action for Youth.

The training of rural youth for self employment scheme is designed to specifically train rural youth in skills to enable them to take up self employment.

Youth employment can serve as a tool for development.

I am pleased to represent here one of the leading countries of the Youth Employment Network, a major international initiative to address the challenge of youth employment globally.

The European Union welcomes the progress made by the Secretary General's Youth Employment Network and encourages its further expansion to facilitate the implementation of national action plans for youth employment.

It consolidated provisions of the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act and youth provisions of the Correction Act into a comprehensive provincial statute written specifically for youth.

Promoting youth employment and skills development in the context of globalization

Syria recently became a State party to the Youth Employment Network.

The Employment Contracts Act prohibits the employers, in hiring and entering into employment contracts, discriminate against persons applying for employment.

The Youth Employment Strategy is the Government of Canada's commitment to helping young people, particularly those facing barriers to employment.

Among the key priorities of this policy are the participation of youth in decision making, non formal education and youth employment.

5 For more information on the Youth Employment Network, see resolution 57 165 see also www.ilo.org public english employment strat yen.

19. Encourages, in this context, current initiatives of the United Nations system on the elaboration of comprehensive employment strategies and measures to foster youth employment, bearing in mind relevant international instruments pertaining to youth

20. Encourages, in this context, current initiatives of the United Nations system on the elaboration of comprehensive employment strategies and measures to foster youth employment, bearing in mind relevant international instruments pertaining to youth

Ireland's far reaching equality legislation included the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000.

The Government of my country has implemented alternative employment measures essentially managed by a network of agencies specialized in promoting youth employment.

The index could measure literacy, the rates of enrolment of students in secondary school, youth employment and the marginalization of specific youth groups.

The Youth Employment Strategy (YES) is outlined in Canada's Fourth Report under this Covenant.

Promoting youth employment is therefore one of the top priorities for the Swedish Government.

However, if Governments employ specific programmes to promote youth employment and entrepreneurship at the national level, we will succeed in significantly reducing youth unemployment.

The Youth Employment Network, which I launched in 2001 in partnership with the heads of the World Bank and ILO, has been promoting the preparation of national action plans for youth employment in an increasing number of countries.

Expectation was expressed that Governments must create and promote employment and training opportunities for youth.

At the same time, another instrument, the Malaysian Youth Act, is being enacted to give direction for proper and systematic youth development.

The Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act came into force November 1, 2004.

Collectively, these steps increased employment opportunities for all Ontarians, including Aboriginal people, youth and visible minorities.

The protection of maternity in Estonia is guaranteed by the Employment Contracts Act, the Public Service Act, the Working and Rest Time Act, the Holidays Act, the Health Insurance Act, the Social Tax Act, the Child Benefits Act and the State Pension Insurance Act.

The Equal Treatment in Employment (Age Discrimination) Act prohibits discrimination on the grounds of age in employment, the professions and vocational training.

Initiatives to address youth unemployment include tax incentives for companies to hire youth, financial assistance for self employment, job search centres, voluntary service programmes and training courses.

National action plans and policies to address youth unemployment need constant commitment and greater resources from Governments, particularly via the work of the Youth Employment Network.5

Azerbaijan, as one of the first countries to join the Network, has recently adopted a youth policy in the form of the State Programme for Youth 2005 2009, which views the promotion of youth employment and youth entrepreneurship among its key policy directions.

Under the Employment Insurance Act, the Canada Employment Insurance Commission has established Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSM) that provide active measures designed to assist unemployed Canadians return to work.

Global analysis and evaluation of national action plans on youth employment (resolution 58 133), A 60 133

The Income and Employment Support Act, which came into force in November 2004 and replaced the Social Assistance Act (1977), provides enabling legislation that will facilitate the integration of employment interventions with the Income Support Program.

1. Takes note of the reports of the Secretary General on the World Youth Report 2003E CN.5 2003 4. and on promoting youth employment A 58 229.

Where domestic staff are concerned, the Foreign Nationals (Employment) Act must remain fully applicable.

In addition to the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act he had just mentioned, equality was promoted by an Equality Authority.

Addressing the needs of children and youth and promoting employment and job creation opportunities are given high priority.

In that regard, information communication technologies should also be seen as an opportunity for youth employment and empowerment.

Strategies to achieve productive employment for youth should try to make employment opportunities compatible with their being in school, as that will afford them better work opportunities in future.