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March 2010
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Child labour
The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the ILO has published its activities report for the years 2008 and 2009
29 March 2010
IPEC’s activities have directly benefited some 300,000 children during this period, either through preventive measures or by rescuing them from child labour practices. Another 52 million children were indirectly benefited by the programme’s work.
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Crisis response
ILO seminar on ways out of the jobs crisis
26 March 2010
While the massive increase in unemployment due to the global economic crisis has left some countries reeling from joblessness and recession, others – including for the first time some less-developed and emerging economies – have experienced a much quicker and smoother recovery process.
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Working Party on the Social Dimension of Globalization
UNDP's Helen Clark says Global Jobs Pact paves the way out of recession
22 March 2010
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark cited the ILO's Global Jobs Pact as the fair and just way for nations to emerge from the recession. Addressing the ILO's Governing Body, she said that if the market were left to its own devices, there could be a significant time lag between the return of economic growth and a lift in employment. The Global Jobs Pact is important because it puts jobs at the center of responses to the crisis.
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Interview
Haiti facing more than recovery, but a refoundation of the country
16 March 2010
Alfredo Lazarte, Chief of the ILO's Crisis Response and Reconstruction Department discusses the findings of a recent mission by ten ILO experts to Port-au-Prince to assess the country's employment needs after a devastating earthquake in January 2010 laid waste to much of the country's infrastructure and economy.
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Video
"What's Working for Working Women" Panel Discussion Highlights
11 March 2010
Each year, ILO celebrates International Women's Day on March 8 with an event honouring working women of courage and conviction. In 2010, the ILO held a panel discussion about "What's working for working women", with participants from Angola, Botswana, Brazil, Ghana, and the Philippines.
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Statement
Statement of the ILO High-Level Bipartite Mission to Turkey (3-5 March 2010)
09 March 2010
An ILO high-level bipartite mission, consisting of the Employers’ and Workers’ spokespersons of the International Labour Conference Committee on the Application of Standards, Mr Ed Potter and Mr Luc Cortebeeck, respectively, accompanied by Mrs Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director of the ILO International Labour Standards Department ILO Geneva, Mrs Oksana Wolfson, legal officer of the same department, and Mrs. Gulay Aslantepe, Director of the ILO Office in Ankara, visited Turkey between 3 and 5 March 2010.
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Slideshow
More gender equality over past few years... but still a way to go (slideshow)
09 March 2010
Despite signs of progress in gender equality over the past 15 years, there is still a significant gap between women and men in terms of job opportunities and quality of employment. The resolution on Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work, adopted by the 2009 International Labour Conference, will guide ILO constituents efforts towards a labour market in which all women and men can participate freely and actively.
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Statement
Message by the Director-General of the ILO on the occasion of International Women’s Day
08 March 2010
On this International Women’s Day, the ILO joins the rest of the UN system in its call for equal rights and equal opportunities for all.
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News
ILO study explores how workplaces are helping with childcare to allow more women to remain in paid employment
08 March 2010
A new study by the International Labour Office (ILO) says shortfalls in childcare for pre-school as well as school-age children have important implications for working parents, employers and societies as a whole.
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International Women's Day - 8 March 2010
Message by Juan Somavia Director-General of the ILO for International Women's Day
08 March 2010