News
June 2009
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ILO adopts “Global Jobs Pact” aimed at creating jobs, protecting workers and stimulating economic recovery
19 June 2009
Faced with the prospect of a prolonged global increase in unemployment, poverty and inequality and the continuing collapse of enterprises, the International Labour Organization adopted a Global Jobs Pact designed to guide national and international policies aimed at stimulating economic recovery, generating jobs and providing protection to working people and their families.
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ILO and World Bank to Work More Closely on Global Disaster Risk Reduction and Livelihoods
18 June 2009
The ILO and the World Bank signed a joint statement to reinforce their collaboration to address the consequences of natural hazards and rebuild livelihoods in the aftermath of disasters. The statement was signed in Geneva along the margins of the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
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ILO/Brazil Annual Review meeting launches new South-South cooperation programme in social security and combating child labour
17 June 2009
Government of Brazil signs new Programme with the ILO for the promotion of South-South cooperation in Latin America and Caribbean, African and Asian countries in the field of social protection.
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Article
Decent Work for domestic workers: a long way to go.
17 June 2009
The ILO and other women’s advocacy groups consider domestic work to be among the most precarious of occupations. The present economic downturn and jobs crisis sweeping the world is likely to aggravate those vulnerabilities depicted in a report to the 2009 International Labour Conference taking stock of gender equality in the world of work. ILO press officer Allan Dow reports from Bangkok.
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Timor-Leste ratifies first ILO Conventions
16 June 2009
Timor-Leste has ratified four conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), concerning forced labour, freedom of association and protection of the right to organize, the right to organize and collective bargaining, and the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
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Article
Taking the crisis as an opportunity: How the garment industry in Kyrgyzstan faces a 40 per cent decline in exports
16 June 2009
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country’s transition to a market economy, the Kyrgyz garment industry was one of the first to recover. Today, it is the first sector that has been severely hit by the global economic and social crisis.
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Feature stories from the ILO Global Job Crisis Observatory
12 June 2009
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98th International Labour Conference
Media advisory: ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis
12 June 2009
Nine Heads of State and Government, six Vice-presidents, labour ministers and leaders from employers’ and workers’ organizations are to meet in Geneva from June 15-17 for a Global Jobs Crisis Summit organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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News
Labour Organization Journalistic Prize awarded to Jessie Ngoma-Simengwa for her article on risking life at a Zambian copper mine
12 June 2009
"Plight of a Zambian mine accident victim", the article that won the 2009 “Media for Labour Rights” journalistic prize awarded by the ILO to Jessie Ngoma-Simengwa
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New ILO report on the situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories
11 June 2009
The annual report of the International Labour Office (ILO) on the situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories depicts “a dismal human, economic and social situation in the occupied Arab territories, overshadowed by stalled peace negotiations”.