Video
20 September 2011
ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy announced the publication of a joint study by the two organizations that examines the way globalization is linked to employment, uncertainty and inequality in the labour market. Marion Jansen (ILO) and Marc Bacchetta (WTO), editors of the volume, summarized the findings in front of an audience at WTO headquarters on September 20, 2011.
News item
06 July 2007
One year ago, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) approved a Ministerial Declaration encouraging the UN system to develop a toolkit to promote decent work. Since then the ILO has worked closely with other agencies through the Chief Executives Board (CEB) chaired by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The final product, a CEB Toolkit for Mainstreaming Employment and Decent Work, is designed to help organizations throughout the multilateral system assess and improve employment and decent work outcomes of their own policies, programmes and activities.