Features

2012

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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”.

2006

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   Article

   Extending social protection to women in the informal economy

   21 April 2006

   More than half of the world's population has no social protection. Only one out of five enjoys adequate coverage. The ILO-STEP programme aims at fighting social exclusion and poverty and promoting social protection worldwide. ILO Online reports from the Philippines where STEP helps informal sector workers and their families which are generally excluded from the national social security system.