News on ILO's work

April 2013

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   Tricked and trapped: How migrant workers are getting a raw deal in the Middle East

   09 April 2013

   ILO reveals how an estimated 600,000 migrant workers are tricked and trapped into forced labour across the Middle East at the first-ever tripartite regional conference on human trafficking.

February 2013

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   Kuwait renews support for ILO programmes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

   20 February 2013

   H.E. Ambassador Dharar A.R. Razzooqi, Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations in Geneva, presented a cheque for USD 500,000 to ILO Director-General Guy Ryder, renewing its contribution to the ILO’s technical cooperation programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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   ILO and UNDP “Rethink Economic Growth” for Arab social justice

   05 February 2013

   Lessons learnt from the Arab uprisings: Time for a new development model

November 2012

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   Global South-South Development Forum 2012

   16 November 2012

   This year’s Global South-South Development Expo in Vienna (Austria) puts the spotlight on Energy and Climate Change. The ILO Solution Forum on Energy, Climate Change and Decent Work (20 November) covered inclusive access to decent work, follow-up to Rio+20, green jobs, social protection and the promotion of workers’ rights in the field of renewable energy and climate change.