The webinar features an interactive and inter-generational dialogue on the importance of promoting youth rights at work for individuals, businesses and societies, and launch of "Work Wise Youth: A guide to youth rights at work". The guide is intended to support ILO constituents and other stakeholders in their initiatives aimed at raising young people's awareness of their rights at work, with a focus on those in forced displacement contexts.

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Objectives

• Foster knowledge and awareness of the international labour standards and fundamental rights under the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work that lay down important provisions on the working conditions of young workers, including forcibly displaced youth, such as social protection entitlements, occupational safety and health, among others;
• Highlight the freedom to engage in economic or business activities, and to access the skills, knowledge, financial resources, markets and networks needed to become drivers of economic opportunities for themselves and their peers;
• Facilitate a dialogue among young people representing employers, workers and refugee communities about the importance of promoting youth rights at work for individuals, businesses and societies at large; and
• Launch Work Wise Youth: A guide to youth rights at work; a reference framework for facilitators to support them in delivering training for young people to raise their awareness on their rights at work, social protection entitlements and fair conditions of work.

Agenda

14:30 - 14:35: Welcome

14:35 - 14:45: Keynote speech

14:45 - 14:50: Video

14:50 - 15:00: Presentation of the Guide

15:00 - 15:40: Panel session on young people's respectives on promoting their rights at work

15:40 - 15:55: Questions and answers

15:55 - 16:00: Closing