ILO in Asia and the Pacific

What's new

1. News@ILO, February 2012

   The February edition of the regional newsletter providing the latest news and activities of the ILO in Asia and the Pacific, including a feature article on social justice for Cambodia's indigenous peoples and recent publications.

2. Press Release

   Global Employment Trends Report

   The world faces the “urgent challenge” of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion, according to the annual report on global employment by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
   

3. ILO Director-General says policy makers need to reconnect with the needs of working families and put job creation at the centre of economic recovery efforts

   The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Mr Juan Somavia, warned that “dark clouds” are gathering again in Asia, even as growth rebounds and investment is flowing back. Asia’s economy is more open than ever before but with the risk of the global economy slipping into a double-dip recession, this openness has positive as well as negative implications.

4. 

   Opinion editorial by Sachiko Yamamoto

   A better world starts in the workplace

    ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, discusses some of the important topics that will be considered at the ILO’s 15th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM), to be held in Kyoto, Japan, 4-7 December.