Several social organizations and youth movements raised their voices this Wednesday to demand from “public and private authorities” more opportunities labor and the guarantee of fundamental rights for youths of the country, on the occasion of commemorating the National Youth Day This January 31.
The volunteer “Catholic Action Father Luis Rosario” and the Center for Education and Development (Ceduca) HE They expressed separately to expose the problem which affects that sector of society of productive age.
The volunteer asked the government and the private sector to generate more opportunities of jobs For the youthstating that, “the unemployment Keep surrounding many youthsand that is why it is the great criminal growth “, especially for those from marginalized neighborhoods.
The movement called on the authorities to modify the law of public shows “and it is rejected to disseminate music with negative letters and obscene and pornographic videos that threaten the healthy growth and development of our children, adolescents and youths of our country. “
“The artists Urban, with their negative music and videos, they are contributing more to the Dominican youth sector more, “he deplored.
The statements They were offered by Ángel Gomera, from the Cursillos de Cristiandad movement; Tobias Crespo, deputy for the National District; Rafael Gómez, Coordinator of the Father Luis Rosario Catholic Action Movement; Padre Domingo Vásquez, priest of the San Ramón Nonato parish, and Priyanka Rodríguez, president of the RD Inclusive Foundation.
Ceducatogether with other organizations that work in impoverished communities, he emphasized that “to guarantee access to jobs worthy to the youth the government is required to adopt policies solid public and that, together with the private sector, create youth employability programs and strategic alliances.
Ceduca offered a panel entitled “Youth Policy, Gaps to access rights and conditions for decent employment” attended youths from different areas of the country. There the current situation of the youth Dominican in terms of rights, through the presentations of specialists in the sector, such as the human lawyer and expert Melina Zaiz; the sociocultural analyst, Ramón Stalin Montero; and the young activist Andry Samuel Arias.
Alba Reyes, executive director of the Ceducahighlighted the access of jobs worthy as one of the claims more frequent for young people in the country.
Melina Zaiz, in addition, to deplore the lack of opportunities and serious deficiencies in the education, As key factors of social inequality, he denounced the discrimination and gender inequality that, he said, the statistics They show that they are the two elements that support gender violence, especially in schools and the field laborbecoming the two public spaces of greater incidence of violence and harassment.
The exponents agreed that more commitment is still needed by the State and the private sector to generate jobs quality and reduce work gaps.
Fernando Saint-Hilaire, youth leader who has coordinated several of those events, called the authorities to offer statistics concrete of the unemployment Juvenile, for understanding that those supplied by the Central Bank that the rate of unemployment in the youthsdo not correspond to those evidenced in the streets, where they are increasingly observed youths doing work such as the Motoconcho and other informal works, which shows the unemployment.
Discrimination
To the address of residence could be an obstacle for a young man to be admitted in a job in the Dominican Republic, which are only part of the important gaps of the discrimination labor that many face youths. A young woman related her experience during the seminar she offered Ceduca In the facilities of the Bonó Center, located in the Social Improvement sector, in Santo Domingo.
“They discriminated on my address”When I was looking for work
“Me They discriminated For me address When she was looking for work, “explained the young woman, who at that time resided in the Las Cañitas neighborhood, of the National District, and who asked to maintain her name in reserve because, by restructuring her curriculum, she has managed to occupy different public functions as a professional.
In the place, the young Kelvin Martínez, resident in Azua, also expressed himself. drain of brains In the country “due to lack of policies public for youths“
In that sense, the entity stressed that the National Youth Plan (PNJ) represents a key opportunity to address the challenges of the employment youth and maximize the potential of youths as development agents, highlighting that it offers with respect to employment Young, since it is aligned with the General Youth Law (49-00), the National Development Strategy 2030 (Law 1-12) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), leaving as a result inclusion with clarity, national priorities and international, which allows to articulate consistent actions to promote a employment decent, inclusive and sustainable for youths.