Charted: The Gen Z Unemployment Rate, Compared to Older Generations (visualcapitalist.com)
Putting the Gen Z Unemployment Rate in Perspective
There are more than 2 billion people in the Generation Z age range globally. These individuals, born between 1997 and 2009, represent about 30% of the total global population—and it’s predicted that by 2025, Gen Z will make up about 27% of the workforce.
Due to the global pandemic, unemployment has been on the rise across the board—but Gen Z has been hit the hardest. This chart, using data from the OECD, displays the difference between the unemployment rate for Gen Zers and the rate for older generations.
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Afghan parliament members attend a meeting on women in decision-making positions
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Women Must be ‘Front and Center’ of Pandemic Recovery, UN Chief Says
16 March 2021 - Women need to be “front and centre” of the pandemic recovery as a matter of economics, efficiency, effectiveness and social resilience, the UN chief told the women’s commission on Tuesday.
“Male-dominated teams will come up with male-dominated solutions”, Secretary-General António Guterres warned a virtual town hall with women civil society during the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CWS).
“We cannot go back to the failed man-made policies that have resulted in the fragility we see around us – in healthcare systems, in social protection, in access to justice, and in the wellbeing of our planet”, he added.
UNICEF Photo – Schoolgirl in Panama
COVID-19 threatened a generation, set back education: UNICEF | Daily Sabah
Pandemic has reversed progress for children worldwide
School closures caused by the coronavirus have affected 247 million children around the world, setting back progress toward education goals and increasing the threats of abuse, depression, child marriage, poverty and hunger, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said as the world marked the first year since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. The pandemic has also reversed progress made toward ending child labor -- a situation that must be addressed, say United Nations Resident Coordinator in Turkey Alvaro Rodriguez and Numan Ozcan of the International Labour Organization.
Извор: WUNRN – 13.03.2021
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25,000 Feminists to Meet in Civil Society Virtual Forum Parallel to UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
New York (March 11) - 25,000 Feminists representing millions of women from around the world will participate in a virtual NGO Forum held in parallel with the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW) meeting March 15 - 26.
Sponsored by NGO Committee on the Status of Women New York (NGO CSW/NY), this forum will have more than 700 events on topics such as violence against women and girls, forced child marriage, femicide, women in conflict, increased vulnerability of women and girls under COVID 19 and the climate crisis. The two-week virtual meeting is the largest gathering of feminists since the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995.
