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June 2013

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   World of Work report 2013

   Profits return but fail to boost real economy in many advanced countries

   03 June 2013

   Profitability has regained pre-crisis levels in many countries, but investment is still below pre-crisis levels in most advanced economies

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   World of Work report 2013

   Uneven job recovery poses challenges to most countries

   03 June 2013

   The latest edition of the ILO’s World of Work report shows encouraging, but still-fragile signs of improvement in emerging and developing economies, while many advanced economies continue to face high or even rising unemployment and increasing inequalities.

May 2013

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   Report on the Fishing industry

   Caught at sea: fighting forced labour in the fishing industry

   31 May 2013

   The fishing sector is an important source of employment, income and food production for many countries. But there are serious incidents of abuse in some fisheries and fishing vessels. By Beate Andrees, head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour.

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   Green jobs in Indonesia

   Creating sustainable livelihoods while saving a precious eco-system

   29 May 2013

   The ILO is working with local communities on the Indonesian island of Borneo on a green jobs programme that is helping to rehabilitate a partly-destroyed peat swamp forest.

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   Article

   Decent Work for Youth Platform

   24 May 2013

   Participate in online debates moderated by young people working on youth employment, share experiences and ideas of good employment practice,learn more about Decent Work by asking questions directly to ILO experts.

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   Video

   Towards equal pay for work of equal value in Jordan

   22 May 2013

   A study by the National Steering Committee on Pay Equity (NSCPE) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on pay discrimination in private schools and universities in Jordan has found a stark pay gap between women and men and put forward legal amendments to promote equal remuneration for all workers.This video presents a real life case of a teacher who left the private education sector due to issues of gender pay discrimination which she faced.

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   Equal pay

   Gender Pay Discrimination in Jordan: A Call for Change

   22 May 2013

   The International Labour Organization is working with the Jordanian government and its social partners to help narrow the pay gap between men and women.

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   Video

   Promoting Fire Safety in Bangladesh's Garment Factories

   21 May 2013

   In March 2013 the tripartite constituents of the ILO - government, employers and workers - developed a National Tripartite Plan of Action on Fire Safety for the Ready-Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh. It came about after two devastating fires at ready-made garment factories in 2012 and early 2013 killed 120 workers and injured many others. One of the activities in the Plan of Action, is to develop and deliver mass worker education tools, such as this video, to promote safety and health in the ready-made garments sector.

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   Post-2015 Development Agenda

   Why jobs and livelihoods matter

   20 May 2013

   With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaching, Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist, explains why jobs and livelihoods should be at the centre of a post-2015 development agenda.

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   Official visit

   ILO's Director-General visits a "Hello-Work" employment centre in Japan

   16 May 2013

   On his first trip to Japan as ILO's Director-General, Guy Ryder visited one of the Japanese Public Employment Security (PES) Centres, also known as a "Hello Work" centre, which is part of a network that serves 170,000 people each day nationwide. He met with the staff of their largest "Hello-Work" office in Tokyo and saw how the employment security system worked from the job seeker's point of view.