On behalf of the United Nations Development Programme, it's a great honor to be signing this tripartite agreement today, which covers a package of active labor market measures worth more than 8.3 million dollars, or almost 416 million denars.
A lack of decent jobs is what we at UNDP see as the country's number-one development challenge.
An unemployment rate among youth of nearly 50 percent is driving the steady departure of talent and energy that is leaving the country's towns and villages sadly deprived of hope for a future.
At the same time, we see the country's aspiring private businesses desperate for skilled workers.
The measures that UNDP is now undertaking to enact are aimed at resolving this painful paradox.
Building on a decade of experience in this area, we will support our national partners in creating new private-sector jobs by promoting entrepreneurship and developing skills that the market needs.
In line with the philosophy of the Sustainable Development Goals – to "leave no one behind" – we will be targeting this effort at the groups that find it hardest to find their fortune in the mainstream labor market: persons with disabilities; the Roma community; and women and young people.
Our efforts in this area over the past decade have yielded a total of nearly 10,000 new jobs.
Thanks to the current Government's resolve and readiness to commit new resources to fight unemployment and open up the labor market, we have set far more ambitious targets for 2018.
We see the Prime Minister's presence today as a powerful symbol of this resolve, and we thank him for following through on his sweeping commitment to give all citizens an equal chance at prosperity.
In all, the measures UNDP has today agreed to implement will generate 1,176 new jobs in 2018.
This total includes 980 new small private-sector businesses to be created by unemployed persons who will receive training, coaching and small grants through the self-employment program.
50 of these firms will be set up by persons with disabilities, bringing the total number of companies of this sort created in the past three years to 220.
Through the wildly popular "community works program," we will work with app. 45-50 municipalities to employ 500 people part-time to provide care for preschool children, persons with disabilities and the elderly and deliver other vital public services to thousands of beneficiaries.
In the process, the participants – and as a rule more than 80 percent of those who benefit are women – will gain the skills needed to find full-time permanent employment.
This program has been a source of valuable innovation on the labor market.
Last year we basically "invented" the new vocation of educational assistant, enabling schoolchildren with disabilities to attend mainstream schools. This year we will build on that success by recruiting and training another 100 assistants, on top of the 140 who were employed in this role last year.
In addition, we will work directly with employers to recruit, train and employ 100 new workers in skills that private-sector firms themselves identify as particularly deficient, such as gastronomy.
Finally, we will also expand the vocational training courses that we provide to prison inmates to give them a better chance to build new lives on the outside; and we will complete an equivalency program to enable adults who failed to finish their primary education to earn a diploma.
Throughout, we will expand the mentoring and coaching efforts that have proven vital in encouraging people unaccustomed to the labor market to succeed and thrive in regular jobs.
As a development organization, we are mindful of the need to build national capacity rather than to substitute for it. So, as in past years, we will work to transfer tested solutions into national hands while continuing to help design and pilot new approaches, such as integrated case management.
Thanks to our combined efforts, this country's experience with active labor market measures is seen as a model – with Azerbaijan just the latest country to borrow our "recipes" – and UNDP is globally looking to Skopje for inspiration in its work in promoting job creation elsewhere around the world.
At this watershed moment, we are delighted to be able to make a significant contribution in addressing the country's biggest development challenge, and we thank our partners in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and the Employment Service Agency for the excellent partnership.
We know there is a lot of hard work ahead, but are also confident of exceptional results.
Thank you for your attention, and we welcome your questions.


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Warfare History
This Medal of Honor Recipient Was Executed for Singing "God Bless America"
Mike Wood - March 26, 2018
"If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy."
– Code of the United States Fighting Force
As anyone who has seen The Great Escape knows, it is the duty of every prisoner of war to make life as uncomfortable as possible for the enemy, even while in captivity. Many stories of heroism in the Second World War were written by those who resisted in the most spectacular fashion possible or in the smallest of ways that they could manage: whether by constantly trying to escape and thus diverting attention towards themselves, or simply by getting on the guards nerves as much as they could to slowly sap at morale.
In ancient times, those captured in battle could expect to find themselves either summarily executed or sold into a life of slavery, but as the years went by, their rights improved. The status of prisoners of war over the years changed drastically when an accepted set of rules regarding their treatment was created at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, called to end the Thirty Years' War in Europe. While the major powers of Europe agreed to treat each other's captured well, the first camp was not built until 1797, nearly 150 years later, and the idea of exchanging each other's prisoners did not occur until even after that.
German prisoners captured in France during the First World War. Google Sites.
There was always a give and take between factions on the issue: soldiers were meant to keep fighting in any way they could and not simply sit in captivity waiting to be freed when the war ended, while guards were not meant to overly harm prisoners, even when they were clearly fighting back against their guards. It was an impasse that would see little resolution. The Geneva Conventions on the rights of Prisoners of War were agreed in 1929 – confusingly, there are three Geneva Conventions, the one that most people have heard of being the 1949 nuclear non-proliferation Convention and not the Convention concerning the rules of war. The 1929 convention made it illegal to torture prisoners, gave them the right to packages and letters home, ensured decent food and work, disavowed slave labour and allowed them not to disclose any information that they did not want to.
Prisoners of War held in a Japanese camp during the Second World War. WWII Today.
Of course, when the Second World War started, plenty of this went out of the window. The Nazis and Soviets routinely flouted their obligations to each other's prisoners: 57% of Soviet prisoners held by the Germans died, while 35.8% of Germans held by the Soviets did too. The British and Americans fared much better, with death rates of around 3% if they were captured by Germans, while Germans captured by Brits and Americans died at a rate of less than 1%. The Geneva Convention of 1929, however, was never ratified by Japan. Almost a third of those captured in the Pacific perished, and it would be a trend that continued in the region well after the war had ended.
Senator John McCain after his release from captivity in Vietnam. IndieWire.
When the Americans returned to South East Asia in the 1960s, their soldiers would suffer the same treatment again. The Vietnamese prisoner of war camps were notorious for their brutality. Torture, beatings, starvation and maltreatment were the norm, with future Presidential candidate John McCain, who spent four years in captivity later stating: "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine," after he had agreed to go on television to make anti-American statements. The POWs mantra, according to veterans, was: "Take physical torture until you are right at the edge of losing your ability to be rational. At that point, lie, do, or say whatever you must do to survive. But you first must take physical torture."
The most notorious prison in North Vietnam was the infamous Hanoi Hilton, where McCain was held. It was situated in the city centre of the capital of North Vietnam, Hanoi, and was renowned for its harshness and brutality. The food was dreadful, it was riddled with disease and the temperatures were stifling. Captured GIs ironically named it after the famous Hilton hotel chain and even went as far as dubbing the various sections of the prison after hotels on the Las Vegas Strip – many of the airmen who found themselves in there having training at Nellis Air Force base, close to Sin City.
US soldiers suffering at the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison in North Vietnam. Learning History.
Prisoners could expect to be torture via methods such as cladding in irons to restrict movement, beatings, extended time without human contact, sleep deprivation and rope-binding, where they were suspended for extended periods of time with their arms behind their backs so as to induce shoulder dislocations. A large proportion of those who captured as prisoners of war in Vietnam had already been injured, especially Air Force personnel who had crash-landed behind enemy lines, and the guards and torturers were always willing to take advantage of existing medical issues to gain the information that they wanted to obtain from captured Americans.
Rocky Versace during his time in South East Asia. Arlington National Cemetery.
One man who took more than his fair share was Humbert "Rocky" Versace. In fact, he took so much that the Vietcong killed him for refusing to ever give up. Versace was born in Hawaii in 1937, the son of an Army Captain, and followed his father into the forces as soon as he was able. He volunteered for Vietnam and first arrived in 1962. He stayed for a year and then extended his tour of duty by a further six months. Just a fortnight before his stay in Vietnam was due to end, he was ambushed along with South Vietnamese soldiers in the Mekong Delta and found himself spirited away to a jungle prison camp with two other Americans.
Versace, a military child and a career soldier, knew his rights and knew what he needed to do if captured. He attempted to escape on four separate occasions and, when interrogated, refused to say a word to the Vietcong. He hurled insults at them and constantly cited the Geneva Conventions, telling his captors that he had enshrined rights as a Prisoner of War. Vietnam, of course, never signed up to the Geneva Convention and was not bound by it.
They tortured Versace, but he never gave in, and was eventually taken away from the other two Americans who had been captured with him. The last they heard of Humbert Versace was him singing "America the Beautiful" at the top of his voice, in defiance of his captors. In September 1965, almost two years after he had first been taken prisoner, the Vietcong radio station announced that he had been executed.
Humbert "Rocky" Versace's Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. Blackfive.
No body was ever discovered and Versace's grave lies empty in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. His parents, on hearing of his death, travelled to France to visit a Vietcong delegation that were there negotiating the Paris Peace Accords. They were unsuccessful in garnering any information and eventually resigned to never finding the remains of their son. Humbert Versace was awarded the Silver Star – he had been nominated for a Medal of Honor – and largely forgotten about.
It was only after a campaign group, the "Friends of Rocky Versace" campaign, raised awareness of Humbert Versace's heroism that his story came back to prominence. After years of lobbying for it, Versace was finally awarded the Medal of Honour, posthumously, by President George W. Bush in a ceremony at the White House. Four of his siblings were present to see their brother honoured by the United States, the first soldier ever to be given the Medal of Honor for valour shown while held captive as a Prisoner of War.
The family of Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Stirm greet him as he lands home after being released from captivity in South East Asia. Newsela.
Rocky Versace is not alone in waiting a long time to be fully awarded for service in Vietnamese prisoner of war camps. The status of those either missing in action or hald captive was still debated long after the end of the conflict in 1975. For years after the end of the war, it was alleged that many Americans remained in captivity in Vietnam, or had otherwise been moved away from South East Asia to the custody of one of North Vietnam's allies. Many airmen who had been shot down over North Vietnam or neighbouring Laos were unaccounted for, as it was unclear how many had died in the process of being downed and how many had found themselves in captivity. The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia was set up by the wives of servicemen in 1971, as the Vietnam War was still raging, and continues to fight for those left behind.
As of 2018, some 1600 Americans are still listed as missing in action/prisoner of war in South East Asia. The United States has spent decades in discussions with the Vietnamese and Laotians in the hope of finding the remains of killed soldiers from the War. Between 1991 and 1993, a commission led by Senator John McCain – as well as former Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator Bob Smith, both of whom also served in Vietnam – declared that "no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia."
Where did we find this stuff? Here are our sources:
"Rocky Versace: The Bravest Man You Have Never Heard Of" Donald R. McLarey, The American Catholic, May 29, 2016
Humbert Roque Versace. Wikipedia

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Is There A Legitimate Subculture in Australia?
They costume like they will the health and fitness center. They've undercuts and spiky hair. They have got a couple of tattoos, hidden from their mom and dad see. They hear R&B and rap. They hand around in garages, taking part in cards, swearing and using tobacco pot. Their ideology of masculinity is a person that will not choose 'no' for an answer, has Handle about his 'Mrs.'s' and can stand up for himself. They speak with slang derived from your African American slang, that has a few Arabic phrases listed here and there. They travel fast, carried out up automobiles with controversial individualized selection plates. Girls are not welcome On this collecting nor are Grown ups. Who're they? These are the Lebanese youth. Their offshoot, 'hanging out', is definitely the symbolic axis and working social hub. This subculture is seriously reliant on getting 'while in the know'- on staying neat, calm and harmful. If a single were to describe the social society of the team, it must be 'coolness'. But what on earth is this cultural price? How could it be embodied? How could it be shown? Why it is so crucial to the Lebanese youth? What are its social makes use of, its demographics, its biases and discriminations?
They belong into a unitary lifestyle. They retain the same costume codes, dance models, new music genres and catalogue of authorized and illicit rituals. They're a subculture from an ethnic tradition. They generally congregate on the basis of shared ethnicity and ideology, their consumption of exactly the same media and, most of all, their desire for youth of the same ethnicity to them selves.
Taking part Within this subculture builds affinities, socialising participants into knowledge of the likes and dislikes, meanings and values from the lifestyle. This Neighborhood will final for a number of many years right until these boys commit to settle down by largely marriage. This subculture will then soften in the 'mainstream'.
The opposition on the 'mainstream' is undoubtedly how many constituents of youth subcultures characterize their unique behaviour. Having said that we won't take youthful discourses pretty much; they aren't a clear window on the whole world. This is a continuing blunder which has been created by cultural studies. They are actually inadequately essential of sub cultural ideologies, first, mainly because they ended up preoccupied by the endeavor of perforating and challenging prevailing ideologies and, 2nd, since they were being biased and tended to correspond Together with the sub cultural discourses from the youth cultures they examine. Teachers have acclaimed subcultures, although youth have celebrated the 'underground'. Where by teenagers have condemned the 'commercial', Students have criticised 'hegemony'; where just one has grieved over 'offering out', one other has conceived 'incorporation'.
Youth visualize their particular and also other social groups by way of sub cultural ideologies, they declare their idiosyncratic nature and assert that they are not anonymous affiliates of an undistinguished heap. The cultural theorists are usually not providing non-biased explanations of just how issues seriously are, but incorporate ideologies that fulfil their distinct cultural agenda. A person ought to for that reason not simply just delve in the method of lifetime of a cluster community, but take into account the way they make 'this means the support of ability'.
The distinctions made by the Lebanese youth will not be simply just affirmations of equal variation; they entail a solid claim to authority and presume the inferiority of Other folks. They are really challenge the load of, particularly the law enforcement and legislation founded by The federal government and find out other sub cultural ethnic groups as inferior to them.
In this subculture, elevated amounts of income and house will not affiliate with superior amounts of cultural capital, as the two usually conflict. Reviews about the 'nouveau riche' reveal the very likely frictions involving those affluent in cultural capital but relatively lousy in financial cash (like those Lebanese youth which can be lecturers) and people full of financial cash but less affluent in cultural capital (like Skilled football players).
Consequently, the third class-social funds-that stems not from what you already know or what you may have, but from who know, is usually attributed fore mostly to the subculture from the Lebanese youth. Connections in the shape of friends, relations, associations and acquaintances can all bestow status. 'Tell the boys that you realize so and so and observe them worship you'.
The 'second nature' of their awareness is a quality that members of the subculture will have to have. Very little diminishes cash much more than the spectacle of somebody seeking to really hard. One example is, a subdued and pale wanting Anglo Saxon male aiming to act, gown and associate himself With all the subculture in the Lebanese youth.
K. Gelder and S. Thornton argue that 'the difference between remaining in or outside of vogue, significant or lower in sub cultural money, correlates in sophisticated methods with levels of media protection, development and exposure'. With regard to your aforementioned subculture, business news and the written content of their broadcasting are discussed often among each other. They're in passionate resistance to the destructive portrayal in their subculture. It can be argued therefore that as a consequence of The reality that their subculture is utilized given that the 'matter in the working day' so conveniently, that this basically encourages them to be more and more rebellious against the 'mainstream' and sorts of authority.
The convertibility of cultural money into financial funds is what finally defines cultural money. Whilst sub cultural funds may well not change into economic funds, in becoming a current market market, While using the similar ease or economical reward as cultural money, a variety of occupations or greater capital for present occupations could be attained because of 'coolness'. American apparel designers, Specifically sportswear designers, which include Nike and Adidas, American artists of hip-hop, rap and R&B and unhappy to convey drug dealers all come up with a residing from their sub cultural cash.
Sub cultural capital will not be as class-bond as cultural funds, Although it converts into financial capital. Class does not correlate in any uninterrupted way with amounts of youthful sub cultural capital. By way of example, it would not be unusual for a Lebanese boy that was lifted in an area that was densely populated with Lebanese homes, like Bankstown, to remain dressing, acting and Talking in exactly the same way if he was to move to a region that was densely populated with Anglo-Saxons and of a class.
Gender, immediately after age, will be the social variance together which sub cultural capital is aligned most analytically to. Normally, the women related to this subculture commit more of their time and identification in accomplishing nicely in school. The boys, in distinction, spend a lot more time and expense on likely out, listening to audio and 'hanging out While using the boys'.
The 'refusal of complicity' may be explained to categorise nearly all of Lebanese youth. These youth aren't as anchored inside their social position as those younger and older than by themselves as they don't seem to be settled with a companion nor have they integrated into 'Australian lifestyle'. By buying this act of leisure, Lebanese youth further more reject becoming set socially. They could postpone 'social growing old' or that 'gradual renunciation or disinvestment' which leads individuals to manage their ambitions for their uses, to guidance their point out, come to be what they are and make do with what they have. Acting as being a barrier towards social ageing could possibly be considered one of The explanations regarding why it's so beautiful to people today well beyond their youth.
Lebanese youth can be seen as temporarily taking satisfaction in the taste of independence. Liberty from requirement, hence, would not necessarily mean that youth have prosperity a great deal of that they're exempt from Grownup commitments on the accumulation of economic money. They merely reveal a methodical dedication, which allows practises that are discouraged via the mainstream.
The time period 'subculture' is thus valuable as a way for analysing the place and experiences of your Lebanese youth of Australia. Sub cultural cash is The crucial element player of a substitute chain of command in which the affiliation of age, gender, sexuality and race are operational to be able to maintain the resolves of course, profits and occupation aside. Sub cultural cash discloses by itself most Obviously by what it dislikes and by what it certainly is just not. The overwhelming majority of Lebanese youth distinguish on their own towards the mainstream that, to a point, is often witnessed to stand in with the masses- this length is really a evaluate in their cultural really worth. Sub cultural ideology unconditionally presents different interpretations and values to young peoples, particularly youthful Guys's. It reinterprets the social world. The Lebanese youth jockey for social electric power by way of these well-liked distinctions; They are really favouritisms by which customers are each specified social statuses and endeavour for the which means of self-truly worth. This viewpoint foresees popular lifestyle as being a multi-dimensional social House as an alternative to as a flat lifestyle or as merely the top in the social ladder. The Lebanese youth should really for that reason not be categorised by means of their cultural differences as currently being 'resistances' to hierarchy or towards the isolated cultural supremacy of some ruling overall body. They need to be checked out because the microstructures of ability entailed inside the cultural Level of competition that goes on among extra carefully involved social groups.
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