Media and public information

Press releases

• ILO book sheds light on working conditions in the remote work industry
  12 July 2010 - A new book by the International Labour Organization (ILO) says that “remote work” – the offshoring and outsourcing of business services from developed to developing countries using information and communications technologies – is creating jobs that are of “reasonably good quality by local standards”, but that the industry has some way to go before achieving full decent work. (ILO/10/38)
• ILO Director-General urges G20 to stay focussed on reducing the global jobs deficit
  28 June 2010 - International Labour Organization Director-General Juan Somavia today welcomed the G20 Leaders’ statement from Toronto in which they gave the “highest priority to safeguard and strengthen the recovery and to the next steps they should take to ensure a full return to growth with quality jobs”. (ILO/10/37)

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Feature articles

• Youth employment in crisis: Questions and answers on the situation of youth on the labour market
  14 July 2010 - Young people have been disproportionately affected by the global crisis that broke out in the autumn of 2008. This trend has exacerbated earlier challenges and there is concern that unless action is taken, the situation of youth will become unsustainable, putting social cohesion at threat. ... (FTR/Youth Employment)
• Cooperatives and the crisis: “Our customers are also our owners”
  02 July 2010 - Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. Report from Sweden. (FTR/Cooperatives)

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I-news

• Youth Employment Network and Jacobs Foundation launch fund for evaluation of youth employment programmes
  27 July 2010 - The Youth Employment Network (YEN), an interagency partnership of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank, have signed an agreement with the Jacobs Foundation, a Swiss-based private foundation, to build an evidence base in youth employment through evaluating the impact of youth employment programmes. (INEWS/yen)
• President of Switzerland launches project to support Indonesian small and medium-sized enterprises
  09 July 2010 - The President of the Swiss Confederation, H.E. Madame Doris Leuthard, attended the launch of an ILO project designed to help Indonesia’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) become more competitive and sustainable by focusing on workplace cooperation and improving labour and working conditions. (INEWS/Indonesia_score)

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Video

• Mixed Picture of Working Conditions in the Remote Work Industry -
  12 July 2010 - A new book by the International Labour Organization looks at "remote work," the offshoring and outsourcing of business services from developed to developing countries using information and communications technologies. ...
• Protecting Domestic Workers: An Interview with Creuza Oliveira (in Portuguese) -
  08 July 2010 - ILO TV interviews Creuza Oliveira, President of the Brazilian National Federation of Domestic Workers about the need to protect the working rights of domestic workers globally and in Brazil. Delegates will vote on a new international labour standard for domestic workers at the 100th International Labour Conference in June 2011.

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