Article
05 July 2012
Cooperatives have played an important role in Indonesia by helping to boost growth, reduce poverty and promote social cohesion. As the world celebrates the UN International Day of Cooperatives, Gita Lingga reports on a successful project involving rural women in the Maluku islands.
News
10 May 2012
Pro-employment macroeconomic policies, public works schemes, investments and promotion of youth employability are key to ensuring future generations share Africa’s growth story, the ILO says as the World Economic Forum on Africa meets.
Video News Release
04 December 2011
There’s good news in the global economic crisis. While the rest of the world’s economies grew just 3% in 2010, economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region more than doubled that. But there’s a hidden story behind the successes of Asia’s booming economies. Joblessness, especially youth unemployment, persists throughout the region. The ILO and its constituents in government, business and workers organizations are working to change that.
Video
27 October 2011
ILO Director General Juan Somavia went to Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan, to have a first-hand look and listen to the people of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.
News
05 October 2011
Ambassador Jean-David Levitte outlines France’s priorities for the G20 Summit in Cannes, 3-4 November 2011.
Video interview
25 January 2011
In its annual employment trends survey the ILO reports that the world's working poor grew by 40 million because of the economic crisis. At the same time several economies in the developing world have seen their unemployment rates fall below pre-crisis levels. With signs of economic recovery, ILO TV interviews ILO economist Theodoor Sparreboom on the outlook for labour markets across the developing world in 2011.
Video interview
25 January 2011
With global unemployment at record highs for the third straight year since the start of the economic crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) warned in its annual employment trends survey that weak recovery in jobs is likely to continue in 2011, especially in developed economies. ILO TV interviews ILO economist Steven Kapsos to find out more.
Crisis response
07 June 2010
Join us for a panel discussion: 10 June, 14:00-15:00, Room IX, ILO Geneva
Article
07 June 2006
Fourteen years of civil war killed 250,000 of the 5 million Liberians, displaced most of the others, quadrupled the number of people living with HIV/AIDS and left the country with a US$3.5 billion external debt.