News
September 2019
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Labour migration
ILO launches Global Media Competition on Labour Migration
12 September 2019
The competition aims at encouraging quality reporting on labour migration to better protect migrant workers’ rights.
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ILO 100
ILO Centenary climbing team reach Mont Blanc summit
04 September 2019
Swiss and French government, employers’ and workers’ representatives and a team from the International Labour Organization have reached the summit of Mont Blanc to mark the ILO Centenary.
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G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting
ILO welcomes G20 commitment to human-centred future of work policies
02 September 2019
The G20 Labour and Employment Ministers have adopted a Declaration committing to human-centred world of work policies. The ILO’s Director-General, who took part in the meeting in Japan, welcomed the statement.
August 2019
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G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting
Guy Ryder attends G20 meeting in Japan
30 August 2019
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization heads to a meeting of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers in Japan, focused on the future of work.
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Gender equality at work
A long, steep road to equality for women at work in Latin America and the Caribbean
27 August 2019
Women in the region are earning 17 per cent less than men per hour, on average, and while an increasing number of women are entering the labour force, their treatment is still far from equal, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.
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G7 Biarritz Summit
ILO welcomes G7 prioritization of inequality
26 August 2019
ILO Director-General Ryder emphasized at the G7 Leaders’ Summit that the tools to tackle inequality already exist, and that concrete measures are needed across a range of policy areas.
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Climate change
Green economies that work for all
26 August 2019
In the run up to the UN Climate Summit in New York in September, the ILO is asking government leaders to commit to taking action, to ensure that the transition to greener economies benefit people and planet.
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International Day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition
Use art to end slavery
22 August 2019
To mark International Day for the remembrance of the slave trade, artist and ILO advocate, Gill Button, calls for justice for victims of trafficking and those who are in forced labour.
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International Day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition
Between two worlds: A poem that inspires action against modern slavery
22 August 2019
Malaysian poet Nazreen Mohamad reads his powerful poem “Between two worlds” with Filipino domestic worker Rizalina Miranda accompanying him on the piano.
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G7 Biarritz Summit
The workplace equality challenge
22 August 2019
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has welcomed the decision to place the fight against inequality at the heart of this year’s G7 summit. Ryder, who will be attending the 24 to 26 August summit in Biarritz, France, called inequality one of the key challenges of our time.