Feature articles

September 2005 

• Airport check-in workers: little gain but lots of pain
  20 September 2005 - In today's high-cost, low-budget and passenger-intense air travel wars, check-in workers are the front line troops in the airlines' battle for survival. And like anyone exposed in battle, they're also the first to suffer. ...
• XVIIth World Congress on Occupational Safety and Health Hitting Close to Home: Workplace Safety Experts to meet in the aftermath of Katrina
  20 September 2005 - The XVIIth World Congress on Occupational Safety and Health that gets underway in Orlando, Florida this week will focus on the plight of workers worldwide who die or become ill due to work-related causes. ...
• Decent work for all seafarers: ILO-IMO prepare new guidelines on death, injury and abandonment
  16 September 2005 - Globalization, complex vessel ownership and flagging, and multinational crewing have made it more pressing than ever to create guidelines for speedy and humane treatment of seafarers caught in unforeseen difficulties. A joint working group of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the ILO will discuss such guidelines on 19-21 September in London.
• UN World Summit 14-16 September 2005 "Restoring dignity through work" - Employment-intensive approaches to economic recovery in Africa
  16 September 2005 - Across Africa, ILO programmes have helped 25 countries put employment at the centre of public investment and poverty reduction. They are part of the ILO Decent Work Agenda and contribute directly to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the global fight against poverty. ...
• UN World Summit 14-16 September 2005 Working out of poverty in Russia
  15 September 2005 - Despite the Russian Federation's recovery from financial collapse in 1998, official statistics show that almost one person out of five still lives in poverty. What's more, a high percentage of those living in poverty are Russia's so-called 'working poor': at least half actually have jobs. ...
• UN World Summit 14-16 September 2005 Indigenous people in Papua: Working out of poverty and promoting human security
  13 September 2005 - Papua is one of the poorest provinces in Indonesia. The 2004 Indonesia Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report indicates that the percentage of people living below the national poverty line in Papua is 41.8 per cent, compared to 18.2 per cent for the whole country. ...
• Starting a new life: business training for women prisoners in Tajikistan
  07 September 2005 - This year the ILO's Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme celebrates its tenth anniversary in Central Asia. Thousands of trainees have profited from the programme so far. Olga Bogdonova from the ILO Moscow office reports from Tajikistan where 60 women serving prison terms received training under the programme since April 2005.
• Gold rush in Mongolia: when shepherds become "ninjas"
  02 September 2005 - Mining and mineral production, particularly gold mining, account for more than 50 per cent of Mongolia's industrial output and more than 60 per cent of the country's export revenues. Half of the country's gold production comes from the informal mining activities of the so-called "ninjas". ...

August 2005 

• New chemicals, old risks: why careful monitoring must be maintained
  26 August 2005 - Potentially harmful chemicals permeate today's workplaces. While the number of chemicals used in industry now exceeds 50,000, an additional 500 new chemicals are introduced in industry every year. ...
• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Invisible prisoners: The trafficking and exploitation of Chinese immigrants in France
  18 August 2005 - According to an ILO study, some 50,000 illegal Chinese immigrants living in France are easy prey to exploitation through forced labour. Resulting from major economic and social change in China, the movement has been growing for the past ten years, with more than 6,000 Chinese immigrants arriving each year in Paris and the surrounding region. ...