News
July 2017
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© AMT 2017
Research Paper
Emerging economies hold key to future of work in the auto industry
20 July 2017
What are the main future of work challenges the automotive industry faces around the globe? ILO News spoke with Tommaso Pardi, author of a research paper commissioned by the ILO through the France-ILO cooperation agreement, looking at the transformation currently taking place in both developed and developing countries.
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Trade Unions
Towards a future of work without child labour and forced labour in Europe and Central Asia
19 July 2017
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© Ness Kerton / AusAID 2017
World Youth Skills Day
With relevant skills, youth can help accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
18 July 2017
On World Youth Skills Day, ILO highlights the need to provide new skills for young people that respond effectively to new forms of work.
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© Erik Törner / IM Swedish Devt 2017
Sustainable Development
Recalibrating Market Forces to Build Sustainable and Equitable Economies
17 July 2017
Joint press release by PAGE, UN Environment, ILO, UNDP, UNIDO and UNITAR.
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© Wiking Husberg 2017
Occupational Safety and Health
New ILO Project aims to reduce work accidents and occupational diseases in Ukrainian mines
13 July 2017
ILO News talked to Kenichi Hirose, Senior Social Protection Specialist, ILO-Budapest, and Iryna Peksheva, National Project Coordinator, Kyiv, about a new ILO project aimed at improving safety and health for Ukrainian miners. In June, they visited three mines to assess safety and identify areas for priority action.
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© Bundesregierung/Güngör 2017
G20 Leaders' Summit
Shaping inclusive globalization preoccupies G20 Leaders at Hamburg Summit
08 July 2017
Leaders’ Declaration recognizes the importance of meeting the challenge of creating decent work opportunities and reversing trends towards increased inequality.
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Press release
ILO and Russian Federation discuss second phase of the project “Applying the G20 Training Strategy”
06 July 2017
ILO officials and senior representatives of the Ministries of Education and Science, Finance, Labour and Social Protection, Foreign Affairs, Employers and Workers’ organizations and other key stakeholders involved in Skills Development met in Moscow to discuss the second phase of the Project, which represents a continued response of the Russian Federation and the ILO to support the application of the G20 Training Strategy.
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© Adri Berger / ILO 2017
Skills and trade
ILO, WTO launch study on investing in skills for inclusive trade
04 July 2017
Enhancing the skills of a country’s workforce lifts the export performance of its enterprises and better prepares them to meet foreign competition in the domestic market, according to economists from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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5th Regulating for Decent Work Conference
ILO meeting to focus on major transformations in the world of work
03 July 2017
Three-day gathering of international experts is expected to provide policy guidance related to sweeping change in the world of work.
June 2017
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Blog
What have we learned about helping women with conditional cash transfers?
30 June 2017
Between 2001 and 2002, Argentina suffered one of the worst economic crises in its history. Unemployment rose, the share of people living below the poverty line increased and political instability and social unrest ensued.