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February 2013

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   Youth entrepreneurship

   From slum living to company director

   25 February 2013

   One woman’s success story shows how green entrepreneurship could be an answer to both youth unemployment and environmental degradation in Africa.

February 2012

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   Article

   Tackling child labour through education in African, Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) States (TACKLE)

   20 February 2012

December 2011

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   Article

   From the depths of an African shantytown, a nascent youth employment movement grows

   14 December 2011

   In Africa’s second largest slum, youth unemployment is sky high. But cooperative projects are helping youth find work and slowly lift themselves out of poverty through such projects as raising food in community gardens, processing waste for bio-fuel or providing improved sanitation. Journalist Anne Holmes reports on how this emerging economic revival is making a small but significant dent in a major ongoing challenge.

October 2011

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   Article

   International Year of Cooperatives: In Kenya, working hand in hand with the ILO to create cooperatives and jobs

   31 October 2011

   Cooperatives provide some 100 million jobs around the world. Many of these jobs provide for basic human needs, such as the dairy farms of Kenya. Today, some 13,000 cooperatives in Kenya have some 9 million members. As the United Nations launches its International Year of Cooperatives, Anne Holmes reports on how cooperatives are thriving, and the role of the ILO in their growth.

November 2010

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   Video

   2010 East African Business Council regional CEO Testing Day and Health Fair: A Message of Dr Sophia Kisting

   11 November 2010

   Dr Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, invited leaders from the business community in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to participate in a voluntary testing and counselling initiative and give effect to the ILO new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS.

June 2010

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   Video

   Delegate Dialogues: Patrick Obath, Vice-Chairperson of the HIV/AIDS Committee and Chairman, Federation of Kenya Employers

   16 June 2010

   ILO TV interviews delegates participating in the Committee for HIV/AIDS at the 99th International Labour Conference in Geneva from 2-18 June 2010. The committee members have discussed a proposed new labour standard on HIV/AIDS in the world of work. The proposed standard contains provisions on prevention programmes and anti-discrimination measures at national and workplace levels aimed at strengthening the contribution of the world of work to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

June 2007

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   Video

   Tackling Child Labour in Agriculture

   12 June 2007

   Worldwide, agriculture is the sector where by far the largest number of working children can be found - an estimated 70 per cent, of whom 132 million are girls and boys aged 5-14. These children are helping to produce the food and beverages we consume. Their labour is used for crops such as cereals, cocoa, coffee, fruit, sugar, palm oil, rice, tea, tobacco and vegetables. They also work in livestock raising and herding, and in the production of other agricultural materials such as cotton and cottonseed.

November 2006

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   Article

   World AIDS Day 2006 The workforce and HIV/AIDS: Employment is a crucial lifeline

   30 November 2006

   In 2005, more than 3 million labour force participants worldwide were partially or fully unable to work because of illness due to AIDS. A new ILO report on HIV/AIDS and work ( Note 1) shows that both prevention and treatment could bring significant benefits to the global labour force and the economy, more particularly accessible and effective antiretroviral drug therapy (ARVs). ILO Online reports from Kenya.

June 2005

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   Video

   MAKING A LIVING UNDER THE SUN IN KENYA

   29 June 2005

   More than 90 per cent of all jobs created in Africa are in the informal sector, many of them in small open-air workshops. In Kenya, this kind of business is known as jua kali, or “fierce sun” and now well-established employers are working together with the ILO to link up with the informal sector to raise quality and working conditions.