Feature articles | International Day of Cooperatives - 4 July 2009

Migrant workers’ cooperatives as a crisis response

This year the theme of the International Day of Cooperatives focuses on the opportunities for co-operatives to effectively contribute to global economic recovery in times of crisis. In Indonesia, thousands of migrant workers, victims of the unfolding economic and social crisis, are returning home. Setting-up a cooperative is one option for these returning migrants, as this report by Gita F. Lingga, ILO Communication Officer in Jakarta, shows.

• Message by the ILO Director-General on the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives

Press releases | 98th International Labour Conference

ILO adopts “Global Jobs Pact” aimed at creating jobs, protecting workers and stimulating economic recovery

Faced with the prospect of a prolonged global increase in unemployment, poverty and inequality and the continuing collapse of enterprises, the International Labour Organization adopted a Global Jobs Pact designed to guide national and international policies aimed at stimulating economic recovery, generating jobs and providing protection to working people and their families.

• Text of the Global Jobs Pact adopted by the 98th International Labour Conference

ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis - 15-17 June 2009 | 98th International Labour Conference

ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis

Heads of State and Government, Vice-presidents, labour ministers and representatives from employers’ and workers’ organizations gathered in Geneva during the International Labour Conference to discuss the global jobs crisis.