News
October 2010
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World Statistics Day - 20 October
ILO launches new statistics database: Short term indicators of the labour market
20 October 2010
Timely information on the labour market and consumer prices are indispensable for drawing up appropriate policy responses to the global economic crisis. To facilitate this, and also to commemorate World Statistics Day on 20 October, the ILO Department of Statistics has launched a new short-term indicators database.
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Bachelet says economic growth alone is not enough to eliminate poverty
17 October 2010
Michelle Bachelet, the head of UN Women and the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group, told a United Nations “Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum” held here to coincide with the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, that increased social inclusion can promote growth and poverty elimination.
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Social Protection
Bachelet promotes social floor and gender equality in Viet Nam
14 October 2010
The Executive Director of UN Women and Chair of the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group, former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, has called for a global social protection floor, as “the first line of defense” for families and economies against the impact of economic crises and an effective means of achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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Press release
ILO Director-General celebrates rescue operation of trapped Chilean miners
13 October 2010
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Juan Somavia, has expressed his deep emotion over the rescue operation to free the 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months in a mine in northern Chile.
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Nobel Prize 2010
ILO Director-General expresses his satisfaction with the award
12 October 2010
The Director-General of International Labour Organization (ILO) Juan Somavia has expressed his satisfaction that three renowned economists have been awarded the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their work on issues of central concern to the ILO.
September 2010
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Global Dialogue Forum on Vocational Education and Training (29-30 September 2010)
Teachers and trainers for the future: Vocational training in a changing world
30 September 2010
The ILO estimates that unemployment is up by more than 30 million worldwide since 2007. The number of unemployed youth increased by 8.5 million between 2008 and 2009, the largest year-on-year increase in at least ten years. Against this sombre economic background, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems worldwide are under pressure to deal with a host of employment and workplace challenges. Interview with ILO specialists about how TVET systems can respond to these challenges.
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World of Work Report 2010
World of Work Report 2010: ILO says long “labour market recession” worsens social outlook in many countries
30 September 2010
A new report by the research arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO) says a long “labour market recession” is worsening the social outlook in many countries.
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Maritime Labour Convention
Implementing the Maritime Labour Convention is "almost there"
27 September 2010
When the ILO adopted the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), in February 2006, Director-General Juan Somavia said the Organization had made "labour history" for the world's more than 1.2 million seafarers. Four years on, the Convention is expected to come into force in 2011 or early 2012. ILO Online spoke with Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director of the ILO's International Labour Standards Department, about recent developments in the implementation of the Convention, and what the ILO and its Member States are doing to bring the Convention into force.
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World of Work Report 2010
ILO to launch new report on the state of labour markets and social cohesion: World of Work Report 2010
24 September 2010
The International Institute for Labour Studies of the International Labour Office (ILO) is to launch the “World of Work Report 2010: From one crisis to the next?” on 30 September.
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Article
The ILO and the Millennium Development Goals: Questions and Answers
20 September 2010
Interview with 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.