News

October 2012

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   Employment update

   Asia-Pacific: Quality and quantity of jobs dropping

   22 October 2012

   Slowing growth in many Asian countries has accentuated labour market challenges in a region that has the world’s largest youth population, and where precarious work is widespread.

May 2010

1. News item

   New ILO report assesses Labour and Social Trends, Crisis recovery, Future Challenges for Asean Economies

   14 May 2010

   A new report on labour and social trends in the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will be released by the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific on Friday 21st May. The report has been prepared for participants attending the 2nd ASEAN Human Resource Conference, being held in Hanoi on Tuesday 25th May.

April 2010

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   Press release

   ILO expresses solidarity with the victims of the earthquake in China

   16 April 2010

   The Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the victims of the recent earthquake in China.

July 2008

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   News item

   Indonesia ratifies ILO Convention n°185 on Seafarers’ identity documents

   16 July 2008

   The Government of Indonesia today handed over the instrument of ratification of the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185) of the International Labour Organization.

May 2008

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   News item

   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)