All ILO Newsroom content

January 2013

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   Official visit

   ILO head in Latin America: More, but also better jobs are needed

   30 January 2013

   Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, highlighted the need to turn informal employment into decent jobs in the formal sector. He spoke during a Latin America visit that took him to Buenos Aires and Lima.

May 2012

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   Article

   How to beat a crisis: Interview with Argentinean Vice President

   17 May 2012

   In 2001 Argentina defaulted on its debt and ended the parity of its currency with the US dollar. The South American country plunged deeper into crisis, but within months economic growth set in. We asked Argentine Vice President Mr Amado Boudou if Eurozone countries can learn from Argentina how to beat the crisis.

March 2012

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   Feature

   Decent work and education: A win-win combination

   01 March 2012

   In 2003, Argentina became one the first countries to incorporate the concept of Decent Work to its national development agenda. Since then, a number of government programmes have put into practice different aspects of the Decent Work Agenda. In 2004, Argentina and the ILO teamed up to launch the Building a Future with Decent Work project, which aims to promote and develop the dignity of work in each person. As ILO News explains, this a road that begins in the primary years at school.

October 2011

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   Video News Release

   Harvest Gardens in Argentina

   28 October 2011

   The area around Salta, in northwest Argentina, is a rich tobacco growing region, but for many of the local people, working in the tobacco fields is the only way to support a family. In the harvest season entire families worked in the tobacco fields, putting young children at the risk of child labour. But thanks to changing technology and a unique program for children implemented by the government and employers with support from the ILO, the long tradition of child labour in Salta is finally part of the past.

April 2011

1. News item

   ILO presents Global Jobs Pact in Argentina

   08 April 2011

   At a tripartite meeting on the application in Argentina of the recommendations of the Global Jobs Pact, the ILO reported today that the urban unemployment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean is back to its pre-crisis level of 7.3 per cent.

November 2010

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   Entrevistas en vídeo

   Social Protection: An Interview with the ILO's Michael Cichon

   16 November 2010

   With the launch of the ILO's World Social Security Report 2010, ILO TV interviews Michael Cichon, Director of the ILO Social Security Department. The report examines the current state of social security across the world and the positive impact that a social protection floor can have as a social and economic stabilizer, particularly in times of crisis. Michael Cichon argues that all countries can put some basic social protection measures in place. "We have a saying in the social security department: there is nobody too poor to share," he says.

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   Video News Release

   Argentina’s Response to Economic Crisis Through Social Protection

   16 November 2010

   Record unemployment is one of the consequences of the global economic crisis, but in Argentina, fewer jobs were lost in the crisis than in many other countries. A new report from the ILO found that’s because Argentina learned some lessons from a bitter experience in the past, and protected jobs when hard times came around again.

June 2010

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   Video

   Success Stories on Social Protection

   16 June 2010

   Ensuring a basic level of social protection and a decent life for all is the main goal of the UN Social Protection Floor Initiative. Many developing countries have already successfully taken measures supported by the Initiative and the ILO as one of its lead agencies. Other countries recently committed to start building their own Social Protection Floors. At the 99th International Labour Conference representatives from Brazil, Argentina, India, South Africa shared their experiences, highlighting the key factors of success as well as the positive impact on national social and economic development.

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   Video

   Interview with Mr. Carlos Tomada, Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina (in Spanish)

   14 June 2010

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   Video

   Delegate Dialogues: Enrique Venturini, Consejero Técnico de la Delegación Sindical de la Republica Argentina (in Spanish)

   14 June 2010