News

June 2012

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   Social protection expands despite crisis, ILO-World Bank report says

   07 June 2012

   A new ILO-World Bank report and online data tool shows that social protection systems expanded in many parts of the world between 2008 and 2010.

April 2012

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   Microinsurance coverage expanding at breathtaking pace according to ILO and the Munich Re Foundation

   10 April 2012

   The number of people covered by microinsurance has increased by almost 6.5 times in five years, reaching nearly 500 million today according to the latest ILO/Munich Re Foundation survey.

March 2012

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   ISSA and ILO sign “historic” co-operation agreement on social security

   22 March 2012

   The International Social Security Association and the ILO have forged a new link aimed at promoting extension of social security to the 80 percent of the world's people who lack coverage.

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.

April 2009

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   Ageing workforce

   International symposium to discuss responses to the demographic challenges in the workplace

   27 April 2009

   The Bureau of Employers Activities of International Labour Organization (ILO) is to hold a seminar on 28-29 April to discuss how businesses are responding to the challenges of an ageing workforce and the measures needed to keep social security systems afloat.

December 2008

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   Belgium continues partnership with ILO to extend social security and promote social dialogue

   15 December 2008

   On 9 December 2008, the Minister of Development Cooperation of Belgium, Mr. Charles Michel, signed an agreement with the International Labour Office (ILO) for a new grant of €6 million and €2.4 respectively to extend social security to vulnerable populations and promote social dialogue in French-speaking Africa.

May 2008

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   ILO Asia-Pacific meeting on extending social security opens

   19 May 2008

   The lack of a social security floor, and the social stability it can bring, puts at risk sustainable economic growth and development in Asia-Pacific and may compromise the positive effects of globalization, according to a new assessment by the International Labour Organization (ILO)

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   Asia-Pacific Countries to discuss extending social security coverage

   14 May 2008

   The International Labour Organization in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, is hosting a high level tripartite Asia-Pacific meeting on Socially-Inclusive Strategies to Extend Social Security Coverage, in New Delhi. The two-day meeting, to be held at Vigyan Bhawan on 19-20 May 2008, will be opened by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Government of India, Mr. Oscar Fernandes on Monday 19 May 2008 at 0930 hrs.