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September 2012

  1. From Pakistan

    All aboard the women’s rights bus

    24 September 2012

    For working women in Pakistan, the bus ride to work can be particularly uncomfortable. The country’s National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) has been trying to change that, with a bit of help from the ILO.

March 2011

  1. Video News Release

    100th International Women’s Day

    07 March 2011

    As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, we also remember the women who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York in 1911. One hundred years on, despite some progress there is still much to be done to achieve gender equality in the world of work.

March 2010

  1. Video

    "What's Working for Working Women" Panel Discussion Highlights

    11 March 2010

    Each year, ILO celebrates International Women's Day on March 8 with an event honouring working women of courage and conviction. In 2010, the ILO held a panel discussion about "What's working for working women", with participants from Angola, Botswana, Brazil, Ghana, and the Philippines.

September 2008

  1. Gender, Migration and Development

    ILO welcomes Manila Call to Action to protect rights of migrant women

    30 September 2008

    Governments from 38 countries, trade unions, employers’ organizations, the private sector, civil society organizations including women’s and religious associations, academe and international organizations adopted a Manila Call to Action here to enhance opportunities and protect the rights of migrant women and their families all over the world.

March 2008

  1. Video

    Press Conference Highlights: Global Employment Trends for Women 2008

    07 March 2008

    "We've seen that over a ten year period 200 million new jobs have been created," says Dorothea Schmidt. "That's a big, big increase and that's very good news, but the problem is the type of job that was created. And we see that over half of the jobs that women have are what we call vulnerable." Dorothea Schmidt, co-author of the report "Global Employment Trends for Women 2008" and Evy Messel, Director of the ILO's Bureau for Gender Equality speak at the GET Women press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

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