News

December 2012

1. 

   Labour market gender gap: Two steps forward, one step back

   11 December 2012

   The gender gap in global labour markets showed some convergence in the earlier part of the last decade but increased after the crisis erupted in 2007, according to an ILO report produced in collaboration with UN Women. The picture varies considerably among regions.

2. ILO to launch “Global Employment Trends for Women”

   07 December 2012

   The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to launch a report analysing the gender gaps in global labour markets.

November 2012

1. What Does the World of Work for 1.2 billion Youth Look Like? Global Labour Markets and Youth Employment: A Vision for the Future, Lecture by Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, ILO

   29 November 2012

   Public Seminar at World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Centre Tokyo, 29 November 2012

2. The ILO and Cooperatives: A global perspective towards the International Year of Cooperatives University of Kobe, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, International Labour Organization

   28 November 2012

   Kobe, Japan, 28 November 2012

3. Inaugural Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO at the 10th International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly

   28 November 2012

   Cooperative Forum on "Role of Co-operatives in times of natural disaster", Kobe International Convention Centre, 28 November 2012

4. Talk on ILO Working paper on Rokin Banks, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, ILO To the Rokin Association & Kinki Rokin

   26 November 2012

   Kobe, 26 November, 2012

5. 

   “The World at a Crossroads: The employment challenge facing the world today” Keynote Speech by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs Executive Director for Employment, ILO

   25 November 2012

   Rokin-ILO International Symposium 25th November, 2012, Osaka, Japan.

6. 

   Healing pharmacies

   12 November 2012

   As the International Year of Cooperatives draws to an end, ILO News looks at how cooperatives in Turkey offer customers easier and safer access to medicines.

7. 

   ECLAC and ILO Predict that Unemployment Will Fall Again to 6.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012

   05 November 2012

   The two United Nations agencies indicate that there remain structural problems that have a negative effect on the labour market situation of young people.

8. International labour Office comments on the World Bank’s “World Development Report 2013: Jobs”

   02 November 2012

   World Bank’s “World Development Report 2013: Jobs”, ILO 2 November 2012.