National Aboriginal Youth Conference

World Indigenous Youth Conference

National Youth and Elders Conference

- The European youth gathering in Paris in October 2000, under the French Presidency, looked at the results of the national conferences from a more European perspective; 450 young delegates representing 31 countries reached agreement on some 80 suggestions.

35. Notes that some labour reforms have introduced new contractual formulas and that, according to the Commission, some of these have increased precariousness in the labour markets, demanding in many instances unfair flexibility from younger generations; notes with concern the figures from some Member States whose rates of temporary employment are over 90 % for new contracts, which particularly affects young people and women, and which, according to the OECD, is one of the direct causes of increasing inequality, although, on occasion, such employment arrangements are specifically sought by workers with the aim of having a better work-li ...[+++]fe balance or additional earnings; calls on the Member States to establish synergies between national policies and the European cohesion policy in order to reinforce the effect on these priority groups; raises a particular concern about the expansion of ‘zero-hour contracts’; believes that all types of contractual arrangements should give workers access to a core set of rights and adequate social protection;

14. Notes that some labour reforms have introduced new contractual formulas and that, according to the Commission, some of these have increased precariousness in the labour markets, demanding in many instances unfair flexibility from younger generations; notes with concern the figures from some Member States whose rates of temporary employment are over 90 % for new contracts, which particularly affects young people and women, and which, according to the OECD, is one of the direct causes of increasing inequality, although, on occasion, such employment arrangements are specifically sought by workers with the aim of having a better work-li ...[+++]fe balance or additional earnings; calls on the Member States to establish synergies between national policies and the European cohesion policy in order to reinforce the effect on these priority groups; raises a particular concern about the expansion of ‘zero-hour contracts’; believes that all types of contractual arrangements should give workers access to a core set of rights and adequate social protection;

28. Welcomes and supports the Addis Ababa Declaration on Accelerating the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted in November 2014 during the Ninth African Conference on Women, on women’s reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, which called for investment into sexual and reproductive health rights, including by adopting and implementing laws on sexual and reproductive health, awareness raising and information services for teenagers and women, including comprehensive sexual health education, information and services; reiterates its call for the expansion of the provision of family planning services and contraceptives, for ac ...[+++]cess to safe and legal abortion services in accordance with national laws and policies, and for the protection of the reproductive rights of women by authorising medical abortion in the cases of sexual assault, rape and incest, in line with the Maputo Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights;