The COVID-19 pandemic is having a "devastating and disproportionate" impact on youth employment worldwide with more than one in six young people forced to stop working since the outbreak began, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has highlighted.
The triple shock inflicted on those under 25-year-old — loss of employment, disruption of education and training, and extra barriers to enter the job market — could lead to the emergence of a "lockdown generation", the UN agency warned in its