News

May 2013

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   Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013

   Informal, poorly paid and unemployed: The reality of work for most youth in developing countries

   08 May 2013

   School-to-work transition surveys of developing countries show that youth are far more likely to land low quality jobs in the informal economy than jobs paying decent wages and offering benefits. Access to education and training remains a major stumbling block.

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   Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013

   Youth jobs’ gains wiped out by slow recovery

   08 May 2013

   A new ILO report says the long-term impact of the youth employment crisis could be felt for decades, creating a generation at risk of suffering decent work deficits throughout their lives.

April 2013

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   Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

   Ryder warns that prospects for jobs recovery are receding

   20 April 2013

   In a statement to the IMFC in Washington, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder says international policy response efforts are not matching growing global concern over growth, job creation and poverty reduction.

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   Arab Labour Conference

   Ryder: Arab region must seize opportunity for reform

   15 April 2013

   ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, highlighted the need for strengthened social dialogue, social protection measures and efforts to tackle youth unemployment in Arab countries, at the opening of the Arab Labour Conference in Algeria.

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   European labour market

   Ten million more unemployed in Europe than in 2008

   08 April 2013

   Austerity measures have not addressed the root causes of the crisis nor have they brought down unemployment, according to a snapshot of EU countries based on an upcoming ILO report on the state of global labour markets.

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   Youth employment crisis

   EU-wide youth guarantees: ILO at the ready

   04 April 2013

   The ILO will cooperate with the European Commission in tackling the employment crisis facing young people, including through youth guarantee schemes.

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   Working conditions

   Momentum grows for domestic workers legislation

   02 April 2013

   A constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal rights for domestic workers in Brazil comes into force on 2 April. Several countries have now passed legislation protecting domestic workers – evidence that the momentum sparked by the ILO Convention on domestic workers is growing.

March 2013

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   Europe

   Balance between fiscal discipline and growth is needed, says European Parliament President

   22 March 2013

   The head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, highlights common ground with the ILO on the need to move beyond austerity in the crisis response, on the importance of decent work and in the debate on the post-2015 development goals.

February 2013

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   © UN Photo/Logan Abassi 2013

   World Day for Social Justice

   Ryder: Social justice, the smart solution to economic recovery

   20 February 2013

   On World Day for Social Justice, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, called on governments, employers and workers to tackle rising inequalities and step up the global struggle for social justice.

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   ILO report

   ILO: Tougher measures needed to curb forced labour

   08 February 2013

   According to an ILO report, the need to deter would-be perpetrators is widely recognized, but more effort is needed to identify cases of forced labour and to prevent the crime.