On his first trip to Japan as ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, met with the staff of the largest employment office of the country, which contributes to serve 170,000 people each day nationwide.

As the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, ILO Senior Economist explains why and how jobs and livelihoods should be at the centre of a post-2015 development agenda.

After receiving entrepreneurship training as part of ILO’s Youth Employment Project in Zambia, Mutoba Ngoma went from being unemployed to starting his own successful bio-fuel company.

Listen to Steve Marshal, the ILO liaison officer in Yangon, and Sandar Soe, from the FTUB (Federation of Trade Unions-Burma), talk about the challenges and opportunities young workers are facing as the country undergoes a period of gradual reforms.