All ILO Newsroom content

December 2012

1. 

   Public Service Announcement

   SCORE: Small & Medium Enterprise are key to development

   07 December 2012

   SCORE -'Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises'- is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO that supports the sustainable growth of small and medium enterprises in order to foster development in emerging economies. Partnering with local employers' organizations and training institutions, SCORE helps SMEs adopt socially responsible and environmentally sustainable work methods that boost their productivity.

July 2011

1. Article

   Young Timorese beautician is a cut above the rest

   29 July 2011

   Eugenia de Jesus Cardoso now runs a successful beauty salon in her hometown, in Maliana, her hometown in Timore-Leste. She gained the business and specialist skills she needed during a training programme run by the Timore-Leste Government and the ILO’s Youth Employment Promotion (YEP) programme. By Matt Crook for the ILO Liaison Office for Timor-Leste

June 2011

1. 

   Video

   Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan at the International Labour Conference: Fiscal Discipline and Social Justice in a New Egypt

   13 June 2011

   In his opening remarks to the High Level Panel on 'Employment and Social Justice in a Globalizing Economy', Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan expressed his hopes for post-revolutionary Egypt. He called for responsive economic policies to promote decent work, sustainable development, social protection, and small and medium-sized entreprises.

July 2010

1. 

   I-News

   President of Switzerland launches project to support Indonesian small and medium-sized enterprises

   09 July 2010

   The President of the Swiss Confederation, H.E. Madame Doris Leuthard, attended the launch of an ILO project designed to help Indonesia’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) become more competitive and sustainable by focusing on workplace cooperation and improving labour and working conditions.

June 2006

1. Article

   95th session of the International Labour Conference, 2006
   Breaking out of informality: Amina, the Queen of Oranges

   02 June 2006

   With between a half and two-thirds of the world's working women and men outside the formal economy, breaking out of informality is the single biggest challenge for labour market governance worldwide.