Press releases

June 2013

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   ILO, Serbia to promote Decent Work

   21 June 2013

   The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Republic of Serbia will work together to address labour market challenges, with the aim of creating more and better jobs, under a new cooperation agreement signed yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland.

February 2013

1. 

   ILO, Bosnia and Herzegovina to promote Decent Work

   06 February 2013

   The International Labour Organization (ILO) and Bosnia and Herzegovina will work together to address labour market challenges, with the aim of creating more and better jobs, under a partnership agreement signed on 6 February 2013 in Budapest, Hungary.

January 2013

1. 

   Targeted packages of measures are needed to create jobs for youth

   11 January 2013

   Targeted packages of well-designed labour market measures are needed to create decent work opportunities for jobless youth in Europe participants of a tripartite seminar organized agreed on 11 January 2013 in Budapest, Hungary.

December 2012

1. 

   Poverty reduction, good governance, economic development and quality education should be on the development agenda

   18 December 2012

   Moldovan government officials and representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations agreed that poverty eradication, good governance, sustainable economic development and quality education are the four most important global development goals to be addressed after 2015.

2. 

   Third cooperation programme between Albania and the ILO to promote decent work

   10 December 2012

   The International Labour Organization (ILO) and Albania have renewed their commitment to implement decent work in Albania under a new partnership agreement signed in Tirana, Albania on 10 December 2012.

3. ILO launches global photo contest “WORK4YOUTH”

   06 December 2012

   The ILO Youth Employment Programme is organizing a photo contest to shed light on youth employment issues, the challenges young people face in the workplace as well as their power to overcome them. The contest “WORK4YOUTH” is sponsored by The MasterCard Foundation.

October 2012

1. 

   First Action Plan on Youth Employment in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

   27 October 2012

   A three-year action plan to promote more and better jobs for young people aged between15-29 was adopted by the Government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on the 17th October, 2012. This is the country’s first action plan to tackle its youth jobs crisis. The plan has been developed with the technical assistance of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team in Budapest, in cooperation with the ILO International Training Center in Turin and in consultation with national trade unions and employers’ organizations.

2. 

   First cooperation between the ILO and UNFPA in Ukraine

   24 October 2012

   A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on the 8th of October 2012 to kick-start cooperation in the area of gender equality in the Ukrainian world of work.

September 2012

1. Ukraine launched a campaign promoting decent work with the help of labour inspection

   20 September 2012

August 2012

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   Youth Rights at Work information campaign in Albania

   31 August 2012

   At least 3,500 young people were informed about their rights at work during an information campaign conducted in Albania as from May 2012.