Highlights

1. 

   Employment creation

   Small businesses and self-employed provide most jobs worldwide, new ILO report says

   10 October 2019

   A ground-breaking study reveals that seven in 10 workers are self-employed or in small businesses, a finding that has significant implications for employment and enterprise support policies world-wide.

2. 

   Social and solidarity economy

   ILO co-organizes an international conference on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)

   27 June 2019

   The ILO co-organizes an international conference aimed at examining the role of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

3. 

   Cooperatives and the future of work

   The ILO-ICA Joint Conference on Cooperatives and the Future of Work

   25 June 2019

   Marking the ILO Centenary, the ILO and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) co-organized a conference that reflects on the role of cooperative enterprises in promoting decent work for all in a changing world of work.

4. 

   Environment and social justice

   Poverty-Environment Nexus – ILO Perspectives at Achieving the SDGs within Europe: No Poverty Eradication without Environmental Action

   05 March 2019

   At an event hosted by European Parliament and the Club of Rome EU-Chapter in Brussels, the ILO Enterprises Department Director, Victor van Vuuren, stressed the importance of strategically linking environmental sustainability and social justice together.

5. 

   PAGE Ministerial Conference

   We cannot tolerate the cost of inaction on climate change

   10 January 2019

   ILO Director-General Guy Ryder outlined three key climate change challenges and put forward a number of proposals, in an address to the Ministerial Conference of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), in South Africa.