02 June 2010
The ILO Director-General Juan Somavia has called for a “balanced” policy strategy aimed at securing a “jobs-rich” economic recovery in the face of new threats to the global economy from the sovereign debt crisis and fiscal retrenchment.
15 January 2010
Richard Lavallée, Programme Coordinator for the ILO's Better Work programme in Haiti, describes conditions in Port-au-Prince immediately in the aftermath of the 7.2 earthquake that destroyed the Haitian capital on January 12, 2009.
07 December 2009
As economies start to show signs of recovery from the global economic and financial crisis, some countries may think about pulling back support measures for job creation and social protection. But this could undermine or even prevent economic recovery if done too soon or too abruptly as Raymond Torres, author of the ILO report "The World of Work 2009, the Global Jobs Crisis and Beyond" explains. (audio file)