NewsWhore
07-19-2011, 02:00 PM
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has released some interesting data on the young people of the Dominican Republic as part of the celebration of World Population Day. The most revealing statistics are the facts that 29% of young people are unemployed, 50% are high school dropouts and nearly 700,000 are not in school or in employment. These figures are based on estimates by the Dominican Republic Ministry of Labor.
Local UNDP representative Valerie Julliand took part in the ceremony along with Sonia Vasquez from the UNFPA and the Ministers of Education, Josefina Pimentel, Labor, Max Puig, Youth, Franklin Polanco and Women, Alejandrina German.
UN Population Fund spokeswoman Sonia Vasquez stressed that 40% of the general population, some 2.7 million, are young people.
Vasquez said that young adolescents merit special attention, affected as they are by very high levels of sexual and commercial exploitation and pregnancies, which are often unwanted. The pregnancy rate in Dominican adolescents is over 20%, one of the highest in the world.
She went on to say that the gap between rich and poor is increasing and city growth and internal migrations are on the rise. The new campaign is called "7 billion, count on me, count on you."
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Local UNDP representative Valerie Julliand took part in the ceremony along with Sonia Vasquez from the UNFPA and the Ministers of Education, Josefina Pimentel, Labor, Max Puig, Youth, Franklin Polanco and Women, Alejandrina German.
UN Population Fund spokeswoman Sonia Vasquez stressed that 40% of the general population, some 2.7 million, are young people.
Vasquez said that young adolescents merit special attention, affected as they are by very high levels of sexual and commercial exploitation and pregnancies, which are often unwanted. The pregnancy rate in Dominican adolescents is over 20%, one of the highest in the world.
She went on to say that the gap between rich and poor is increasing and city growth and internal migrations are on the rise. The new campaign is called "7 billion, count on me, count on you."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)