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No to commercial sexual exploitation of children in Madagascar
04 March 2014
On World Day against sexual exploitation, the ILO in Madagascar calls for strong effective actions to eradicate the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the country.
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African Ministers call for increased employment impact of infrastructure investments
27 February 2014
Ministers gathered at the 15th Regional Seminar of Labour-based Practitioners in Yaoundé called for increased participation of local enterprises and people in infrastructure development in Africa.
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© ILO 2014The cost of not knowing how to cost
25 February 2014
How the ILO contributes to women’s empowerment, job creation and economic growth in Uganda through business management skills.
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XVth Regional Seminar of LBT practitioners in Africa
24 February 2014
Ministers, senior policy makers, experts in labour-based works and top international researchers meet for the first time in Central Africa to discuss employment-intensive policies and strategies for Africa.
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Academy on youth entrepreneurship and employability in Morocco
23 February 2014
The ILO “Youth at Work” project held a capacity-building workshop for 80 trainers to enhance entrepreneurial and employment opportunities for young women and men in Morocco.
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ILO to mark the Month of Women Entrepreneurs in Somalia
17 February 2014
ILO will mark the Month of Women Entrepreneurs (MOWE) in Hargeisa, Somaliland with a series of key events to highlight milestones and achievements of Somali women engaged in small and medium size enterprises.
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© François Xavier Marit / AFP 2014The need to invest in Africa’s rural transformation
12 February 2014
Boosting rural investment in Africa would create millions of badly needed jobs, as well as food security and resilience.
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Global Development Agenda, Decent Work and Social Justice: Challenges for African Trade Union Movement
11 February 2014
Africa is the world's second largest continent in both land area and population—with more than 800 million people living in fifty-four countries.The trade union movement in Africa concurs with the analysis that the development challenges facing the continent are enormous, and requires not a simple solution.
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Tunisia ratifies three international Labour Conventions
11 February 2014
The Government of Tunisia ratified three international Labour Convention on February 11, 2014. These are the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144), the Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention, 1978 (No. 151), and the Collective Bargaining Convention, 1981 (No. 154).
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ILO Director-General appoints Aeneas C. Chuma of Zimbabwe as Head of Africa
11 February 2014
Mr Aeneas Chapinga Chuma from Zimbabwe is appointed ILO Regional Director for Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with effect from 1 March 2014.
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African Union to hold an Extraordinary Summit on Employment in 2014
31 January 2014
Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) decided to hold a new Extraordinary Summit on Employment and Poverty Eradication, in September 2014 in Burkina Faso.
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ILO calls for bold political action to promote youth employment in Africa
29 January 2014
From Cairo to Cape Town, youth employment is one of the most pressing policy issues in Africa calling for a bold political response and a global methodology, stressed the ILO at a Youth Conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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2014, Year of Agriculture and Food Security in Africa
27 January 2014
African Heads of State and Government, ministers and development partners, including the ILO, are meeting in Addis Ababa from January 27-31 for a Summit on Agriculture and Food Security.
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Job-rich growth: a game changer for Africa’s inclusive development
21 January 2014
High levels of youth unemployment call for strong employment-friendly policies to promote a job-rich growth in Africa, according to the ILO’s Global Employment Trends 2014 report.
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© AFP/Fayez Nureldine 2014The pride of working women
16 January 2014
A new ILO study examines the constraints on working women in Algeria and the opportunities available to them.
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Seychelles ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
09 January 2014
The Republic of Seychelles is the 55th ILO member State of the ILO to ratify the Convention, and the fourth among the States parties to the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control for the Indian Ocean Region –after Australia, France and South Africa.
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South-South Interreligious Dialogue for Decent Work
13 December 2013
The first international meeting for interreligious dialogue and cooperation on decent work was held from 9-12 December in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Ryder: Time to turn Africa’s dynamism into social progress
13 December 2013
In his first official visit to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder stresses the importance of youth employment, social dialogue and green jobs in the future development of Africa.
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Managing Labour Force Survey Data in SADC Countries
12 December 2013
An interactive workshop hosted by the ILO to strengthen the technical capacity in the use of survey data for labour market information and analysis in SADC countries.