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Post-conflict recovery

ILO helps Sri Lanka war victims pick up the pieces

Fishermen who lost their boats during Sri Lanka’s civil war are back at sea. Farmers are learning to get better yields and war widows are running businesses. A look at how an ILO project is helping victims of a 26-year conflict.

Global Wage Report 2012-13 - Videos

Living with a middle-class wage

What does your wage buy in terms of your standard of living and quality of life? ILO talked to people earning a middle-class wage across the globe to find out how they were faring.

Campaign

Artworks: team up for a better world of work

ArtWorks brings together the ILO and artists committed to promoting fundamental rights in the world of work, including freedom from slavery and from child labour.

Online Forum

Consultations on Growth and Employment

Join UN Missions, UN agencies and civil society organizations for a briefing on the global conversation on growth and employment in the post-2015 agenda.

Database

International labour standards: Latest ratifications

International labour standards are primarily tools for drafting labour law and social policy in conformity with internationally accepted standards. For many states this process begins with a decision to consider ratifying an ILO convention.

Post-conflict recovery in Sri Lanka
Living with a middle-class wage
Committed artists
Post-2015 development agenda
Labour standards: latest ratifications

Focus on

Youth employment

40 per cent of the jobless worldwide are young people. There will be nearly 75 million unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 in 2012, an increase of nearly 4 million since 2007. The youth unemployment crisis can be beaten but only if job creation for young people becomes a key priority in policy-making.
Social Protection

Social protection programmes can act as stabilizers mitigating the impact of economic crises on labour markets while contributing to maintaining social cohesion and stimulating aggregate demand.
The ILO and the G20

G20 countries would need to create 21 million jobs in 2012 in order to return to pre-crisis employment levels.

Key resources

ILO Training Centre

Global provider of training for the world of work
The ILO at Work

Development Results 2010-2011
Labour statistics

Short Term Indicators of the Labour Market
ILO Helpdesk

For business on International Labour Standards

Policy frameworks

The ILO Global Jobs Pact: A policy framework to accelerate a job rich recovery

Adopted by ILO constituents in June 2009, the Global Jobs Pact provides a set of policy measures centred on investments, employment and social protection.
ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization

Adopted in 2008 by the representatives of governments, employers and workers from all ILO member States, the Declaration expresses the contemporary vision of the ILO’s mandate in the era of globalization.