All ILO Newsroom content
June 2017
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United Nations University interview
Future of Work: Towards Decent Jobs for All?
08 June 2017
How can nations anticipate the jobs of the future to ensure that workers receive appropriate skills development while safeguarding their right to decent work? The ILO Director-General Guy Ryder joins United Nations University Research Officer Cale Salih for a conversation discussing the future of work and its pertinence to the Sustainable Development Goals.
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European Development Days 2017
Innovate to extend social protection to workers in the informal economy
08 June 2017
We need to look at how we can innovate and find solutions to empower informal economy workers to be part of the solution to have access to social protection and transition to the formal economy, says Luis Frota, a senior social protection expert from the ILO. The interview took place at the #SDGStudio at European Development Days, #EDD17 in Brussels on 8 June 2017.
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Our impact, their voices
Telling serious things with humour: Mobile theater in Tajikistan campaigns against the informal economy
08 June 2017
Two years ago the International Labour Conference adopted the Recommendation concerning the transition from the informal to the formal economy (No.204). Since then a global campaign has started in different parts of the world to formalize the informal economy. In Tajikistan, trade unions are using theatrics to illustrate the consequences of informal employment.
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106th International Labour Conference
President Tabaré Vázquez addresses the 106th International Labour Conference
05 June 2017
Without dialogue there is no progress, said President Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay during the opening session of the annual International Labour Conference of the ILO in Geneva. In his speech to the delegates of some 187 countries he warned that “we must not wait for the future, we must build it.”
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106th International Labour Conference
Decent work and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand, says ILO Director-General
05 June 2017
Guy Ryder, Director-General of the ILO, told delegates at the 106th International Labour Conference that job creation and the protection of the planet can and must work together for a sustainable future. The two-week long Conference gathers over 5000 representatives of governments, employers and workers from the UN agency’s 187 member states to foster progress in the world of work.
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106th International Labour Conference
B-roll: President Tabare Vazquez addresses the 106th International Labour Conference
05 June 2017
Without dialogue there is no progress, said President Tabaré Vázquez of Uruguay during the opening session of the annual International Labour Conference of the ILO in Geneva. In his speech to the delegates of some 187 countries he warned that “we must not wait for the future, we must build it.”
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106th International Labour Conference
B-roll: Decent work and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand
05 June 2017
Guy Ryder, Director-General of the ILO, told delegates at the 106th International Labour Conference that job creation and the protection of the planet can and must work together for a sustainable future. The ILC opened today with the election of Luis Ernesto Carles Rudy, Minister of Labour of Panama, as President. The annual meeting of the International Labour Org. gathers over 4000 representatives of government, employers and workers from the UN agency’s 187 member states to set labour standards and foster progress in the world of work.
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106th International Labour Conference
Five things to know about the Committee on Employment and Decent Work for the Transition to Peace
05 June 2017
Azita Berar Awad, Director of the ILO's Employment Policy Department, explains why, during times of conflict and natural disaster, it's important to emphasize prevention, not only intervention.
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World Environment Day 2017
A greener future will not be decent by definition, but by design
05 June 2017
"Let’s not just mark World Environment Day. Let’s make it a reason to put our political will into action. The future of our jobs, and of our children, relies on it," says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.
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Global Business Network
ILO Establishes a Global Business Network on Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
02 June 2017
New network marks unique opportunity to address the scourge of forced labour and human trafficking in a rapidly changing world.