All ILO Newsroom content
September 2010
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Video interview
The ILO and the Millennium Development Goals: An Interview with Alice Ouedraogo
20 September 2010
ILO TV interviews Alice Ouedraogo, Deputy Director of the ILO's Policy Integration Department about the International Labour Organization's efforts to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular the first MDG on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
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News
MDG 1. Review of progress : Case Studies
16 September 2010
Examples of promising or successful experiences in country efforts to move towards the various Goals, and to gain understanding of the factors contributing to this progress. (Case studies from the Review of progress on Millenium Development Goal 1 - ILO, WFP, FAO).
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Statement
Coordination between international agencies to combat trafficking in human beings, by Caroline O’Reilly, Strasbourg, September 2010
16 September 2010
Delivered at the Committee of the Parties of the Council of Europe Convention on action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 13 September 2010
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Video
Webcast from the joint ILO-IMF conference in Oslo
14 September 2010
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Video interviews
Global Voices: How the Crisis Has Affected You
13 September 2010
ILO TV interviews entrepreneurs, young people, unemployed people, employers and workers from around the world asking "how has the crisis affected you?". The collection of voices was shown at the 13 September joint ILO-IMF conference "The Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion" in Oslo.
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Video
G20 Seoul Summit Briefing by His Excellency Ambassador Ho-young AHN
08 September 2010
A presentation on the G20 Summit to be held in Seoul on November 11-12 was made by Mr Ho-young AHN, Deputy Minister for Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea and nominated Ambassador at Large for the G20. Mr. Ahn highlighted some of the key issues to be discussed such as financial safety nets and the Millenium Development Goals.
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Joint ILO-IMF Conference
Oslo Conference 2010: Video Message from ILO Director-General Juan Somavia
01 September 2010
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are to hold a joint conference to be hosted by the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, on 13 September 2010, in Oslo, to explore new ways of forging a sustainable, job-rich recovery from the global economic crisis.
August 2010
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International Labour Review, Vol. 149 (2010), No. 2
A legal perspective on the economic crisis of 2008
24 August 2010
The 2008 global financial meltdown was the symptom of an underlying crisis in law and institutions caused by the neoliberal utopia of Total Market –“scientific” depoliticization of the economy, full commodification of labour, land and money, and all-out competition, with even legal systems subject to “law shopping”. Financial markets were so successfully deregulated, they were the first to collapse: taxpayers are now paying the bills. But the markets for natural and “human resources” are also at risk. In the spirit of the 1944 Declaration of Philadelphia, Supiot argues, the rule of law must be reinstated to end human subordination to economic efficiency.
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Video interview
Social Protection: An Investment in Society
20 August 2010
ILO TV interviews Kemal Dervis, Vice-Chair of the Brookings Institution and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2005-2009. Mr. Dervis is member of a global panel to promote social protection, which met for the first time on 11 and 12 of August in Geneva at the ILO.
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Video interview
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals with Social Protection
20 August 2010
ILO TV interviews Eveline Herfkens, Founder of the MDGs campaign, and Executive Coordinator for the MDGs Campaign from 2002-2008. Ms Herfkens is member of a global panel to promote social protection, which met for the first time on 11 and 12 of August in Geneva at the ILO.