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October 2007
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News
ILO documentary to be screened at environmental movie festival in Italy
11 October 2007
Turning waste into wages is the goal of an ambitious project in Burkina Faso and the subject of an International Labour Office documentary to be screened by the Italian Film Festival "CinemAmbiente" in Turin, Italy.
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Burkina Faso: Protecting the Environment by Profiting from Garbage
09 October 2007
Burkina Faso’s first plastic recycling centre is paving the way for a new kind of development project. It provides a money earner to the poor while tackling environmental pollution. Local industry also benefits – the recycled plastic granules cost half the price of importing new plastic from abroad.
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Kampala Statement
Employment-Intensive Approach in Construction: A Catalyst for Prosperity for All
09 October 2007
Statement by Ministers of Public Works and Labour made during the Ministerial Roundtable at the 13th Regional Seminar for Labour-Based Practitioners and Policy Makers, 30 November - 04 December 2009, Kampala, Uganda
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Promoting better occupational safety and health through effective labour inspection to make Decent Work a global reality - Düsseldorf International Conference “Making Decent Work a Global Goal and a National Reality”
09 October 2007
From 18-20 September 2007 over 200 participants from 65 countries from all over the world met in Düsseldorf (Germany) to discuss the practical aspects of implementing international standards for decent work. The Conference was organized by the ILO in partnership with the German and Portuguese governments, the International Social Security Association, WHO, IALI and other international organizations, and with sponsorship from German partners Basi, Messe Düsseldorf, DGUV, Fraport AG, TÜV Rheinland, and BAD Team Prevent.
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Highlights of keynote speakers at the ILO Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization
01 October 2007
Political and opinion leaders from around the globe are meeting in Lisbon, Portugal from 31 October to 2 November 2007 to discuss the role of decent work as the key to economic, social and environmental sustainability and a fair and inclusive globalization. Here are highlights of keynote speeches delivered in plenary sessions.
September 2007
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News
XV Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour of the Organization of American States
25 September 2007
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Peru Earthquake Response: ILO calls for integrated employment strategy in UN Flash Appeal
05 September 2007
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News
Unemployment, informality and inactivity menace young people in Latin America and the Caribbean
04 September 2007
ILO calls for better use of the growth, development and poverty reduction potential of 106 million youth in the region.
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East Asia is the growth productivity story of the decade, according to new figures from the Key Indicators of the Labour Market, released this week at a press conference in Geneva
03 September 2007
East Asia showed some of the fastest labour productivity growth rates in economic history, according to Jose Manuel Salazar, Executive Director of the ILO Employment Sector, speaking at a press conference for the launch of the 5th edition of the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM).
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Interview with Lawrence J. Johnson on Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), 5th Edition
03 September 2007
New ILO report says US leads the world in labour productivity; some regions are catching up, but most lag far behind