Features

2012

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   Article

   Green and fair: Cooperatives in Ethiopia

   19 June 2012

   By their very nature, cooperatives can balance economic, environmental, and social needs. The ILO will be showcasing some of its successful experiences in this field at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). One of them involves more than 200,000 coffee producers and almost 200 cooperatives in Ethiopia.

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   Article

   Furthering social justice

   15 May 2012

   May 7 of this year marks the 80th anniversary of Albert Thomas’s death in 1932. After a devastating world war, the ILO’s first Director (1919–32) argued that “economic and social questions are indissolubly linked and economic reconstruction can only be sound and enduring if it is based on social justice”.

2010

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   Growth employment and social cohesion

   After the ILO-IMF conference in Oslo, what's next?

   20 September 2010

   In the wake of the historic ILO and IMF conference in Oslo on “The Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion”, what's next for the two Organizations’ campaign to address the global jobs crisis? ILO Online spoke to Stephen Pursey, Director of the Policy Integration and Senior Advisor to the Director-General, about the outcome of the Conference and the road ahead.