Article 15
Sustainable livelihoods and youth employment
1. Every young person shall have the right to gainful employment.
2. Every young person shall have the right to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing work that is likely to be hazardous to or interfere with the young person’s education, or to be harmful to the young person’s health or holistic development.
3. States Parties shall address and ensure the availability of accurate data on youth employment, unemployment and underemployment so as to facilitate the prioritisation of the issue in National development programmes complemented by clear programmes to address unemployment;
4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures with a view to achieving full realisation of this right to gainful employment and shall in particular:
a) Ensure equal access to employment and equal pay for equal work or equal value of work and offer protection against discrimination regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, disability, religion, political, social, cultural or economic background;
b) Develop macroeconomic policies that focus on job creation particularly for youth and for young women;
c) Develop measures to regulate the informal economy to prevent unfair labour practices where the majority of youth work;
d) Foster greater linkages between the labour market and the education and training system to ensure that curricula are aligned to the needs of the labour market and that youth are being trained in fields where employment opportunities are available or are growing;
e) Implement appropriately-timed career guidance for youth as part of the schooling and post-schooling education system;
f) Promote youth entrepreneurship by including entrepreneurship training in the school curricula, providing access to credit, business development skills training, mentorship opportunities and better information on market opportunities;
g) Institute incentive schemes for employers to invest in the skills development of employed and unemployed youth;
h) Institute national youth service programmes to engender community participation and skills development for entry into the labour market.
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