News

April 2012

1. 

   Gaps and weaknesses on youth employment highlighted at Bangladesh consultation

   19 April 2012

   Ahead of the Youth Employment Forum, the ILO is holding consultation events in more than 40 countries around the world to hear young people’s views on the alarming jobs crisis.

2. 

   New Faces New Voices, ILO and AfDB to Join Forces to Promote Women Empowerment in Africa

   16 April 2012

   New Faces New Voices (NFNV), the Pan-African Network of women in the financial and business sectors led by Ms Graça Machel, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) agreed in Abuja (Nigeria) to strengthen their cooperation to promote women empowerment in Africa.

3. 

   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.

4. 

   Youth Employment Forum: Call for applications for Young Journalists/Bloggers

   05 April 2012

   The International Labour Organization (ILO) will offer five young journalists/bloggers the opportunity to promote and cover the Youth Employment Forum, which will take place in Geneva from 23 to 25 May 2012.

5. Young Peruvians speak out on jobs crisis

   05 April 2012

   The ILO is holding global youth consultations that will culminate in a major Youth Employment Forum in Geneva in May, with some one hundred young people from employers’, workers’ and youth organizations from across the world taking part.

6. Youth in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia share their views on the jobs crisis

   04 April 2012

   The ILO organized three national events in the Caucasus region during March as part of its ongoing global youth consultation.

March 2012

1. 

   Youth employment should be a national priority in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

   29 March 2012

   A national consultation on youth employment took place in Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on March 29, 2012 to tackle the alarmingly high youth jobless rate of the country.

2. 

   ILO and Australian government strengthen technical cooperation with US$31 million Timor-Leste project

   29 March 2012

   The ILO and the Governments of Australia and Timor-Leste have announced a new US$31 million project to significantly improve road transport in Timor-Leste.

3. 

   Ukrainian consultation highlights the importance of education and skills matching in tackling the youth employment crisis

   23 March 2012

   The ILO launched Central and Eastern European consultations with youth within the framework of “Youth Employment Month” 2012 with a round table discussion in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 23, 2012.

4. 

   Eastern Europe and Central Asia should transition toward sustainable development now or pay more in the future, says UN report

   23 March 2012

   Eastern Europe and Central Asia need to remove fossil fuel subsidies, invest in ‘green’ jobs, and establish social protection floors to ensure a sustainable future. These were some of the findings from a new UN report “From Transition to Transformation”, launched in Istanbul, Turkey at the first Global Human Development Forum.