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64m young L Americans lack decent work: ILO

September 11, 2007 00:00:00


MEXICO CITY, Sept 10 (Xinhua): At least 64 million young people in Latin America and the Caribbean are unemployed or working in very precarious conditions, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said in a Sunday report.
Discrimination for politics, race, age and gender abound in the Latin labour market, said the ILO's document youth and decent work in Latin America and the Caribbean. The most vulnerable are indigenous people, the old and women, especially single mothers, the UN body added.
There are 10 million "openly unemployed" young people, who represent 46 per cent of the region's jobless, it said.

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