Feature articles

March 2004 

• Child trafficking in Moldova
  15 March 2004 - An estimated 1.2 million children worldwide are victims of child trafficking. One of them is Ioana, who was trafficked from Moldova to Ukraine. Natalia Cojocaru, a Moldavian journalist for the newspaper "Timpul" reports.
• New study: Balancing flexibility and security in Central and Eastern Europe
  04 March 2004 - A new study published by the ILO says that for many workers in the new Europe, post-Communist era reforms have meant more work and less job security. ...

February 2004 

• Jobs after war – Building sustainable peace
  23 February 2004 -
• Economic insecurity drags on in Ukraine: ILO survey shows millions in distress
  18 February 2004 -
• New ILO report: Despite rising unemployment, cause for cautious optimism
  11 February 2004 - The 2004 Global Employment Trends report, released today by the ILO, paints a grim picture of rising global unemployment. But the annual jobs report sees signs of recovery. Here are questions and answers on the global employment picture, how this affects different people, and what solutions exist for employment generation.
• Making work a safer place
  11 February 2004 - Money talks, but does it think? Merging thoughtful workplace practices and the bottom-line is one of the goals of the Global Compact launched in 2000 by the United Nations. The Compact seeks to meet the challenges of globalization and create a more stable and inclusive world economy by embedding UN values in private sector strategies. ...
• Eliminating child labour: The costs and benefits
  06 February 2004 - A just-released study by the ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), "Investing in Every Child: An Economic Study of the Costs and Benefits of Eliminating Child Labour", argues that the benefits of eliminating child labour will far outweigh the costs. ...

January 2004 

• Unemployment - an enormous challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean
  13 January 2004 - A new ILO report paints a grim picture of unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean. With 19 million jobless workers in Latin America's cities and unemployment hovering at above 10 per cent, the ILO says any recovery will require strong measures - including a reorientation of economic priorities and a more equitable globalization process.

December 2003 

• Migrant health workers: Is one country’s gain another’s pain?
  19 December 2003 - Severe staff and skill shortages in the health systems of many countries have fostered the active recruitment of health workers from abroad, and this migration poses a potential threat to the health systems of developing countries, says a new ILO report which focuses on the situation of migrant nurses. Monica Evans from the ILO London Office spoke with the author, Dr. Stephen Bach.
• In Afghanistan, paving the way to a brighter future
  15 December 2003 - After more than two decades of war, road- and bridge-building has become an essential part of Afghanistan's reconstruction. The ILO Crisis Response and Reconstruction Programme is using labour-based methods to fix not only the streets in Kabul, but also pave the way to long-term job creation and decent work.