Features

2012

1. Article

   Employers make the case for hiring people with disabilities

   19 June 2012

   101st session of the ILC held event on ILO Business and Disability Network to highlight the business case for hiring people with disabilities

2009

1. 

   International Day for Persons with Disabilities

   Helping women and men with disabilities fulfil their potential

   02 December 2009

   December 3 marks International Day for Persons with Disabilities. This year, the theme focuses on the empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities. Emanuela Pozzan, ILO Subregional Coordinator on Disability for East Asia, looks at a Vietnamese woman whose work in this area has received international recognition.

2. Article

   Questions and answers on the impact of the crisis on people with disabilities

   11 November 2009

   With some 10 percent of the world population living with disabilities – the current global economic crisis is cause for concern. People with disabilities are often excluded and marginalized, and are particularly vulnerable in times of crisis. This week, Academy Award winning actress Marlee Matlin and a panel of experts will address the impact of the crisis on people with disabilities and what can be done about it. ILO Online spoke with Barbara Murray, senior disability specialist at the ILO, about the importance of including people with disabilities in measures to tackle the crisis.

3. 

   Disability Equality Training

   In Zambia, a commitment to inclusive approaches for people with disabilities

   09 July 2009

   An estimated 7 to 9 per cent of women and men in Zambia live with a disability, most of them in poverty. ILO Online reports from the country’s capital Lusaka where Disability Equality Training (DET) is part of a new effort to make sure that the needs of people with disabilities are taken into account in development programmes.

2007

1. 

   Article

   Disability in the world of work - Interview with Actress Marlee Matlin

   21 December 2007

   Actress Marlee Matlin often says that the only thing deaf people can’t do is hear. With access to communication and the right tools, people with disabilities have shown themselves to be exemplary workers.

2. 

   Article

   Fully Fit at Work: disabled workers in Poland

   29 November 2007

   Like in other European, countries inactivity rates of Polish workers with disabilities tend to be much higher than that of other workers. While their share of the working age population in Poland is 10 per cent, their share in employment is only 3.8 per cent. But there are also signs of improvement as the story of Paweł and his employer show. ILO Online reports from Poland on the occasion of International Day of Disabled Persons.