News

September 2011

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   News item

   Brazil launches unprecedented social dialogue process to promote employment and decent work

   27 September 2011

   Brazil has launched a series of conferences on job creation and decent work in an effort to promote social dialogue on a scale that is unprecedented anywhere in the world, said the ILO Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Elizabeth Tinoco.

March 2011

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   President Rousseff and President Obama to develop cooperation projects promoting the ILO Decent Work Agenda

   19 March 2011

   The Presidents of the two largest democracies and two largest economies of the Western Hemisphere “expressed the interest of both countries in strengthening their dialogue to promote the Decent Work Agenda, with a view to developing projects in cooperation with the ILO (…).”

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   ILO Director-General welcomes US-Brazil Memorandum of Understanding to promote Decent Work through South-South and Trilateral Cooperation

   19 March 2011

   The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Mr. Juan Somavia, has welcomed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Governments of Brazil and of the United States to promote South-South and Trilateral Cooperation around the ILO's Decent Work Agenda.

November 2009

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   Governing Body

   Brazil’s Foreign Minister calls for a job-intensive economic recovery

   17 November 2009

   Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said a new global governance was needed to protect the most vulnerable members of society from the adverse effects of the global economic crisis and called on the International Labour Organization (ILO) to continue to play a leading role in promoting a job-based recovery and a fairer globalization.

June 2009

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   ILO/Brazil Annual Review meeting launches new South-South cooperation programme in social security and combating child labour

   17 June 2009

   Government of Brazil signs new Programme with the ILO for the promotion of South-South cooperation in Latin America and Caribbean, African and Asian countries in the field of social protection.

March 2009

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   South-South cooperation

   The ILO/Brazil Multi-annual Partnership Agreement 2009-2011 signed

   24 March 2009

   Government of Brazil signs new Partnership Agreement with the ILO for the promotion of South-South cooperation in Latin America and Caribbean and African countries.

September 2008

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   ILO, ECLAC and UNDP launch report on decent work and human development in Brazil

   17 September 2008

   Brazil’s recent experience shows economic growth is necessary but not enough to promote human development, says a new report issued here last week by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).