'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They speak up, take a stand, mobilize, and take big and small actions to advance women’s rights. This is Generation Equality.
Demecia Yat. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
By UN Women* — This interview features Demecia Yat, one of 15 women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Guatemala.
South Asia has the largest youth labour force in the world with nearly 100,000 young people entering the labour market each day.
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KATHMANDU/NEW YORK/MUMBAI, 30 October 2019 (UNICEF)* – An estimated 54 per cent of South Asian youth leave school without the necessary skills to get a decent job in the next decade, according to data produced by the Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Education), the Education Commission, and UNICEF.
In Thailand for the ASEAN Summit, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited a climate mitigation project in Bangkok’s new Centenary Park on Saturday [2 November 2019] where he told journalists that “coal addiction must be overcome”. *
