News

April 2011

  1. Article

    Youth unemployment in the Arab world is a major cause for rebellion

    05 April 2011

    While images from protests in the Arab region go around the world, it is timely to look at the reasons that brought these mostly young people on to the streets. An extremely high youth unemployment rate of 23.4 per cent in 2010, is one major but not the only cause for these popular uprisings, says Dorothea Schmidt, senior employment expert in the ILO office in Cairo.

  2. Press release

    ILO to launch a book on the causes and consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-09 and its policy responses

    05 April 2011

    The International Labour Office (ILO) is to launch a book analysing the causes and consequences of the global economic and jobs crises and offering policy responses for both developed and developing countries.

  3. News

    ILO publishes full and detailed reply to the Multilateral Aid Review by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)

    04 April 2011

March 2011

  1. LDCs

    ILO: learning lessons from success key to economic improvement for the Least Developed Countries

    29 March 2011

    A new report by the International Labour Office (ILO) recognizes the growth revival in least developed countries (LDC) in the last decade, but argues that major structural challenges in the nature of growth, employment and decent work remain.

  2. News

    Spain awards the Medal of Merit in Work to the ILO

    23 March 2011

    The Government of Spain has awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in Work to the International Labour Organization, in recognition of its efforts in labour issues.

  3. Statement - DG Yemen

    ILO condemns repression and killings of peaceful demonstrators in Yemen

    22 March 2011

    The Director-General of the International Labour Office, Juan Somavia, expresses his strong regret at the failure of the President of Yemen Ali Abdallah Saleh to engage in any meaningful dialogue with the peaceful demonstrators who have called for social, economic and political reform.

  4. News

    Flemish Government (Belgium) signs new cooperation agreement with ILO

    21 March 2011

  5. Press release

    ILO Governing Body addresses more equitable future in the Arab World

    21 March 2011

    Leaders from Arab countries met at the International Labour Organization's Governing Body here today in a session dedicated to discussing ways to ensure a more equitable future in the Arab world, with the respect of fundamental rights at work, employment and social protection as a basis for sustainable growth.

  6. Press release

    ILO says fair and equitable policies are key to sustainable economic recovery

    21 March 2011

    A new paper by the research arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO) shows that growth and equity can be achieved in parallel if the right mix of policies is put in place.

  7. Press release

    Lessons from the crisis – challenges for the future: The ILO gives its first comprehensive assessment of Germany’s policy to tackle the crisis and issues policy recommendations for the future

    21 March 2011

    Despite a dramatic decline in output as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, Germany’s labour market held up well compared with other countries. Although the economy shrank by 4.7 per cent in 2009, more than in most other countries, employment fell by only 0.2 per cent, whereas the average for the industrialised countries was five times worse than in Germany.