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November 2022
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Greening workplaces
Enterprises must be key actors in the green transition
14 November 2022
Greening workplaces will play an increasingly important role in the green transition, as well as being an aspect of work life that matters greatly to both workers and employers. Read the new ILO report launched during COP27.
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COP 27
ILO launches initiatives on Green Jobs for Youth and Just Transition financing tools at COP27
11 November 2022
During the first week of the UN Climate Change Conference the ILO launched a bold partnership to accelerate green job creation for youth, as well as the Just Transition Finance Tool on Banking and Investment Activities and opened the Just Transition Pavilion.
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News
70 Years of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association
09 November 2022
The CFA’s seven decades of work to promote respect for freedom of association are being marked with a new book that looks at the pioneering role and broad impact of the Committee’s work.
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Care economy
Closing gaps in leaves and care services would generate millions of formal jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially for women
08 November 2022
Despite the progress made in the last decade, there are still large regulatory and enforcement gaps in maternity protection, leaves, and child and elderly care in the countries of the region.
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Video
How did the ILO perform during the COVID-19 pandemic?
03 November 2022
This comprehensive evaluation of the ILO’s response in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic does not only show how the organization performed during the crisis but also provides the only full and objective account of this chapter in ILO’s history. The independent, high-level, evaluation documents what worked well and where challenges were faced both at the institutional and substantive response level. As such it provides analysis that will be critical to ensuring that the ILO is well positioned to meet challenges posed by future crises.
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Social dialogue
ILO Director-General message to the Global Deal Forum 2022
02 November 2022
In a video address to the Global Deal Forum 2022 Gilbert F. Houngbo's underlined the importance of effective and inclusive social dialogue to address multiple global crises, including climatechange, inequalities, inflation and unemployment.
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News
The importance of just transitions and labour mobility as mitigation and adaptation strategies to climate change
02 November 2022
The ILO, as one of the co-conveners of the Issue Based Coalition on Migration in the Arab region (IBC/M), participated in the online Regional Dialogue on Climate Change and Migration Nexus in the Arab Region on 24 and 25 October and organized a session on ‘Migration and labour mobility as an adaptation strategy to climate change and the importance of just transitions’, bringing together ILO’s tripartite constituents who explored the numerous linkages between climate change, migration and the labour market.
October 2022
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Statement
Director-General’s opening address to the 346th Session of the ILO Governing Body
31 October 2022
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Our impact, their voices
Employing digital strategies to honour, care and respect the elderly
31 October 2022
As the co-owner iElder.asia, Olivia Quah is committed to ensuring elders can live life to the fullest through her medical service e-commerce platform. Always on the lookout for opportunities to pursue new digital marketing strategies, Olivia participated in a programme delivered under the ILO’s Rebuilding Better project which inspired her to transform her business website.
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Our impact, their voices
Glass half-full: Social entrepreneur embodies optimism & hope through COVID-19
31 October 2022
Susan Zamora Olarte is the co-owner of Vino Arsan Enterprises, a small agribusiness producing local wine in the Philippines. Determined to take her 100% Filipino handcrafted wines and spirits to the next level, Susan is promoting the livelihood of local farmers and pushing the market towards environmental sustainability in the post-pandemic, ‘new normal”.