Impact and people
2010
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Cooperatives and the crisis: "Our customers are also our owners"
01 August 2010
Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. Andrew Bibby reports from Sweden.
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Setting the terms of the child labour debate
01 August 2010
Though child labour has preoccupied the ILO since its first days, the practice remains a problem of immense social and economic proportions throughout much of the world. While there has been progress in reducing child labour over the last decade, the decline was uneven in different world regions and the global pace of reduction slowed between 2004 and 2008.
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Small premiums, long-term benefits: Why poor women need microinsurance
01 August 2010
Microinsurance coverage is an important safety net for households in developing countries, providing a tool to protect productive assets. For poor women, however, coverage can be even more critical.
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Paving a way out of poverty for people with intellectual disabilities
01 August 2010
Millions of people with intellectual disabilities and their families are inordinately affected by poverty and social and economic exclusion. In March 2010, the ILO–Irish Aid Partnership Programme gathered representatives from several East African countries, Australia and the United Kingdom at a three-day conference in Lusaka, Zambia to explore opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to train and work alongside non-disabled workers in their communities, thereby paving a way out of poverty.
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International Labour Conference: ILO urges strong action on jobs
01 August 2010
The annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded its 2010 session with a strong call for placing employment and social protection at the centre of recovery policies. Meeting in the run-up to the G20 Leaders summit in Toronto, representatives of the “real economy” – government, employer and worker delegates from the ILO’s 183 member States – expressed broad concern that the global economic recovery remained “fragile and unevenly distributed, and many labour markets are yet to see jobs recovery match economic recovery”.
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From shipyard to renewable energy centre: Tomorrow’s jobs will be green
01 August 2010
The following article shows that – with resources and imagination – ways can be found to meet the twin challenges currently facing the world: the need to move towards an economy based on a much lower carbon footprint whilst at the same time bringing the world out of its present recession and finding employment. Andrew Bibby, a British journalist, reports from Odense, Denmark.
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The global challenge of child labour: Going for the goal
01 August 2010
The global campaign against child labour – especially in its worst forms – is at a crossroads. From an optimistic projection just four years ago that the end of the worst forms of child labour was in sight, the most recent ILO report casts doubt on whether that goal can be reached by the target year of 2016. It calls for urgent steps to accelerate action against child labour. The key messages of the report were delivered at a Global Conference on Child Labour hosted by the Government of the Netherlands on 10–11 May in The Hague. The Conference adopted a new “roadmap” aimed at achieving the goals set in 2006. IPEC Director Constance Thomas examines achievements made and challenges that remain in the fight against child labour.
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Calls for early ratification of Maritime Labour Convention
30 July 2010
Article in "the Vincentian" published on 30 July 2010
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UNAIDS: Exploring combination prevention: the way forward
23 July 2010
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Questions and Answers on the new Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work
15 July 2010
On 17 June 2010, governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations (ILO constituents) made history at the 99th International Labour Conference in adopting, by an overwhelming majority, the first international human rights instrument to focus explicitly on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work. The Recommendation marks a new milestone in the international response to the pandemic, calling for the World of Work to play a significant role in preventing HIV transmission, protecting human rights at work and mitigating the impact of the pandemic at work, on local communities and the national economies. ILO Online spoke with Dr. Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO Programme on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work (ILO/AIDS).