Vatican envoy speaks at UN meeting on youth unemployment, climate change
June 02, 2016
The Vatican's representative at UN offices in Geneva has urged action on "the pressing issue of youth unemployment."
Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic said that policies to create job opportunities for young people should be "aimed not at serving the few, but at benefiting ordinary people and society as a whole." He remarked that globalization of the economy has created new openings for work, but also new pressures on workers, especially at the lower end of the wage scale.
Archbishop Jurkovic touched on the issue of climate change in his address to the International Labor Conference, saying that it is closely related to the issue of unemployment. Citing the encyclical Laudato Si' by Pope Francis, he said: “We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis, which is both social and environmental."
For all current news, visit our News home page.
Further information:
All comments are moderated. To lighten our editing burden, only current donors are allowed to Sound Off. If you are a current donor, log in to see the comment form; otherwise please support our work, and Sound Off!
