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	 <title>ILO reports on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The ILO has issued a report on the worldwide situation concerning its fundamental principles and rights of work – freedom of association and collective bargaining, forced and child labour and discrimination.]]>
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	 <title>Media advisory: Election of the next ILO Director-General</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[On Monday 28 May 2012, the Governing Body will elect the next Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO) at its 314th Session.]]>
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	 <title>South Sudan becomes 184th ILO member State</title>
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	 <title>Neither working nor studying, the fate for millions of youth worldwide</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Millions of youth around the world have essentially given up looking for a job since the onset of the crisis, reflecting an increasing detachment from the labour market.]]>
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	 <title>Youth from around the world gather at the ILO to tackle job crisis</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The ILO Youth Employment Forum got under way with young people from around the world discussing the promotion of decent jobs in the face of a dramatic global jobs crisis that disproportionately affects them.]]>
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	 <title>ILO head warns of growing disconnect between people and politics</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[ILO head, Juan Somavia, warned of “a growing disconnect between people and politics, people and government”. These remarks were part of his address to young men and women who were attending the Opening of the Youth Employment Forum in Geneva.]]>
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	 <title>ILO and IMF support discussion of a new strategy for employment, decent work and development in Zambia</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Zambian authorities, trade unions and employers agreed to work together and with the ILO and the IMF to promote employment by creating inclusive growth, at a two day-meeting that ended in Lusaka on 22 May.]]>
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	 <title>Four million more jobless youth since 2007</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The global youth unemployment rate for 2012 remains stuck at crisis peak levels and is not expected to come down until at least 2016, says the ILO in its Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012 report.]]>
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	 <title>Aung San Suu Kyi to address the ILO’s International Labour Conference</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced that Ms Aung San Suu Kyi - Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar - will attend the 101st International Labour Conference.]]>
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	 <title>Information for the media: 101st International Labour Conference (30 May–14 June 2012)</title>
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	 <title>Defeat jobs crisis, “improve economy”: Voices from the Youth Employment Forum</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Young people from around the world are discussing ways to promote youth employment and entrepreneurship in the face of a global jobs crisis that affects 75 million youth. Over 100 young men and women are taking part in the Youth Employment Forum at the ILO in Geneva, sharing their experiences and points of view. These are some of their voices:]]>
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	 <title>Media Advisory: ILO and UNEP to publish new report on green economy</title>
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	 <title>How to beat a crisis: Interview with Argentinean Vice President</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[In  2001 Argentina defaulted on its debt and ended the parity of its currency with the US dollar. The South American country plunged deeper into crisis, but within months economic growth set in.  We asked Argentine Vice President Mr Amado Boudou if Eurozone countries can learn from Argentina how to beat the crisis.]]>
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	 <title>News in Brief - Country Office for South Pacific Island Countries - April/May 2012</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[This ILO Suva &quot;news in brief&quot; is for ILO constituents in the Pacific to keep them updated on ILO issues and activities related to Decent Work Country Programmes in their respective countries. 

This edition highlights topics specific to the International Labour Conference (ILC) which is to be held in Geneva (Switzerland) from 30 May to 15 June 2012.]]>
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	 <title>Out-of-school youth find hope in entrepreneurship</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Merly Ybanez dropped out from college in 2008 because her parents cannot pay anymore her school fees.  Her mother, who was into small scale buy and sell of agricultural products, became a breadwinner when her father got sick. As the youngest of 6 children, she helped her parents in daily household chores.]]>
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	 <title>Technical vocational skills training for disadvantaged youth in Masbate</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The Technical Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) confirmed the 2nd batch of 250 disadvantaged youth as graduates of labour market-responsive technical vocational skills training in Masbate on May 4.  To date, a total of 500 disadvantaged youth completed the 13 training courses offered by TESDA its accredited 11 technical vocational institutions in the province.]]>
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	 <title>What are the challenges behind Russia’s plan to boost job creation?</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Russia recently announced an ambitious plan to create 25 million high productivity jobs by 2020. Olga Koulaeva, Employment Specialist at the ILO Moscow office, analyses Russian labour market challenges in an interview with ILO News.]]>
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	 <title>Philippine tripartite-plus stakeholders discuss ethical recruitment in the health sector </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[On 17 May 2012, the ILO, with the leadership of Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) and Department of
Labor and Employment (DOLE), and in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), organized a participatory workshop whose goal was to contribute to the monitoring of the implementation of the 2010 WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel. The event brought together more than 50 representatives from various government agencies, workers and employers organizations, recruitment agencies and health professional organizations.]]>
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	 <title>SLIC Launches European Labour Inspectorate Code of Good Practice</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The European Senior Labour Inspectors Committee recently published a code of good practice for labour inspectorates.]]>
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	 <title>Guinea Labour Inspectors Prepare National Work Plan
Conakry, Guinea 24-27 April 2012</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[LAB/ADMIN together with the ILO Office in Dakar held a training workshop  for some 35 labour inspectors and administrators in Conakry, Guinea, during which participants prepared a national work plan on labour inspection for the next six months.]]>
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