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June 2010

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   Article

   ‘The main change has to happen in peoples’ minds’: a child labour film programme in Kyrgyzstan

   11 June 2010

   The ILO Global Report “Accelerating action against child labour“, launched in May 2010 calls for “better targeted advocacy” based on “filling important knowledge gaps and making greater use of the media”. This story shows how a small-scale but successful child labour awareness programme in one of the Central Asian countries is putting this kind of advocacy to work.

February 2010

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   Video

   WIND of Change

   05 February 2010

   More than one billion people worldwide earn their income from agriculture, working steadily to increase productivity and their standard of living. But farming brings risks that can undermine or even eliminate the gains hard won in the fields. From manual labour to machines, dangerous chemicals and unsanitary workplaces: farming families struggle with dangers at work and at home every day, but there's a WIND of change coming, as ILO TV reports.

December 2008

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   Occupational Safety and Health

   Fair WIND for Safety in Kyrgyzstan

   17 December 2008

   An ILO occupational safety and health training program for farmers and other agricultural workers in Kyrgyzstan has become a starting point for a broader political process of social dialogue between workers, employers and government.

August 2008

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   Gender equality campaign

   Jobs for Young Women and Men in Kyrgyzstan

   04 August 2008

   When a country has a mismatch between what its labour market needs and the education and skills of its young people - what’s the answer? Kyrgyzstan is working hard to address this imbalance by training young women and men in job skills that are actually in demand in its transformed economy.