Promoting Youth Employment: policies and programmes
This paper deals primarily with programmes for expansion of youth employment opportunities, paying special attention to generation of self-employment through youth enterprise. Since these programmes cannot be considered in isolation of the nature of youth unemployment and the overall policies for employment creation, the initial sections of the paper...
Read MoreSocial Security Provisions in the Constitution of Brazil
Artículo 1 La República Federal del Brasil, formada por la unión indisoluble de los Estados y Municipios y del Distrito Federal, se constituye en Estado Democrático de Derecho y tiene como fundamentos: (…) 4. los valores sociales del trabajo y la libre iniciativa; (…) Artículo 3 Art. 3. Constituyen...
Read MoreAdditional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1988
Article 9: Right to social security 1. Everyone shall have the right to social security protecting him from the consequences of old age and of disability which prevents him, physically or mentally, from securing the means for a dignified and decent existence. In the event of the death of...
Read MoreEmployment Promotion and Protection Against Unemployment Convention, 1988 (No. 168)
The main aim of Convention No. 168 is twofold: the protection of unemployed persons through the provision of benefits in the form of periodical payments and through the promotion of employment. Convention No. 168 therefore recognises the value of linking social security to broader social and economic policies directed...
Read MoreAdditional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 9 of the Right to Social Security, reads as follows: “(1) Everyone shall have the right to social security protecting him from the consequences of old age and of disability...
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