15 July is World Youth Skills Day
Young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and continuously exposed to lower quality of jobs, greater labor market inequalities, and longer and more insecure school-to-work transitions. In addition, women are more likely to be underemployed and under-paid, and to undertake part-time jobs or work under temporary contracts.
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11 July is World Population Day
2018 theme: “Family Planning is a Human Right”
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 International Conference on Human Rights, where family planning was, for the first time, globally affirmed to be a human right.
The conference’s outcome document, known as the Teheran Proclamation, stated unequivocally: “Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children.”
Embedded in this legislative language was a game-changing realization: Women and girls have the right to avoid the exhaustion, depletion and danger of too many pregnancies, too close together. Men and women have the right to choose when and how often to embrace parenthood — if at all. Every individual has the human right to determine the direction and scope of his or her future in this fundamental way.
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Would you like to mentor a Mandela Washington Fellow?
IREX is looking for individuals in Southern Africa to mentor Mandela Washington Fellows, either virtually or in-person. As the Fellows themselves are aged 25-35, the organisation is ideally looking for mid-career professionals or higher with at least ten years of experience in their field.
Closing date: Monday, 31 December, 2018
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International Day of Cooperatives
On 7 July 2018, members of cooperatives around the world celebrate the International Day of Cooperatives. Through the slogan
Sustainable societies through cooperation they will show how, thanks to their values, principles and governance structures, cooperatives have sustainability and resilience at their core, with concern for community as the seventh of their guiding principles.
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