All ILO Newsroom content
March 2015
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Climate change
Disaster Risk Reduction in Fiji
13 March 2015
As the risks posed by climate change become more prevalent, often the people affected the most have the least capacity to adapt to those risks without help. In Fiji, the ILO's Cash for Work programme brought together government, communities and volunteers to help villagers threatened by climate change. The challenge: to move an entire village to higher ground. (Closed captions available)
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Climate change
Disaster Risk Reduction in Fiji
13 March 2015
As the risks posed by climate change become more prevalent, often the people affected the most have the least capacity to adapt to those risks without help. In Fiji, the ILO's Cash for Work programme brought together government, communities and volunteers to help villagers threatened by climate change. The challenge: to move an entire village to higher ground. (Closed captions available)
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Statement
Disaster risk reduction and the Post-2015 framework for sustainable development
12 March 2015
Statement by ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (14-18 March 2015 - Sendai, Japan).
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International coordination
Joint communiqué by German Federal Chancellor, ILO, OECD, WTO, IMF and World Bank
11 March 2015
Joint communiqué by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder and WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo on the occasion of their meeting on 11 March 2015 in Berlin.
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Berlin meeting
Ryder welcomes call for renewed efforts to spur global growth and employment
11 March 2015
ILO Director-General underlines jobs for youth as a priority for international community, during a meeting with German Chancellor and the heads of other international organizations.
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Jobs destroyed by conflict
Stories of “Disemployment” from Gaza
10 March 2015
Palestinians in Gaza tell how they lost their livelihoods due to severe damage to buildings, vehicles, machinery and other productive assets caused by the Israeli military operation during the Israel-Gaza conflict of July-August 2014. These accounts accompany the release of the ILO study “The ‘Disemployment’ impact of the 2014 Conflict in Gaza: An ILO Damage Assessment and Recovery Strategy.”
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International Women's Day
Women and the World of Work
09 March 2015
Twenty years have passed since the 4th World Conference on Women adopted a far-reaching roadmap for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. ILO TV shows how far we've come, and how we can move farther and faster to get to where we want to go.
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Cooperatives
Global survey shows rising women’s participation in cooperatives
09 March 2015
An ILO-ICA joint survey reflects gains for women in cooperatives while pointing to the need for better recognition by governments
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Statement
"The future of work must also deal with the future of women at work"
08 March 2015
Statement by Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2015.
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International Women’s Day 2015
ILO: Progress on gender equality at work remains inadequate
06 March 2015
While there have been many achievements on gender equality since the Beijing Declaration on women rights was signed by 189 governments in 1995, many challenges remain, including a motherhood pay gap.
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A blog
Why framing the discourse on human trafficking is important - some thoughts
05 March 2015