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	 <title>ILO helps Sri Lanka war victims pick up the pieces

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	 	<![CDATA[Fishermen who lost their boats during Sri Lanka’s 26-year 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 the bitter conflict.]]>
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	 <title>One-Plus-One Disability Cultural Centre</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[This video is a CCTV News interview with Jin Lin from One-Plus-One Cultural Centre in Beijing and Ann Herbert, Director, ILO Beijing.]]>
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	 <title>ILO Chief visits Thailand
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	 	<![CDATA[ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, visited Thailand as part of his first trip to Asia since taking office in October 2012.  He toured the PP Tan shrimp peeling facility in Samut Sakhon Province, where he met with workers and managers on the factory floor to hear first hand about their working lives.]]>
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	 <title>Migrant domestic workers in Europe: Graciela&#39;s story</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Today, thousands of migrants live and work as domestic workers in European countries. They give essential services to families and societies, yet their work is often undervalued and taken for granted. Domestic workers are real workers - like you and I. Respect their work, respect their rights!]]>
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	 <title>Migrant domestic workers in Europe: Coring&#39;s story</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Today, thousands of migrants live and work as domestic workers in European countries. They give essential services to families and societies, yet their work is often undervalued and taken for granted. Domestic workers are real workers - like you and I. Respect their work, respect their rights!]]>
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	 <title>Migrant workers in Jordan are making their voices heard</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[As the world marks International Migrants Day on December 18, ILO News looks at the impact of legislation allowing migrant workers in Jordan to join trade unions.]]>
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	 <title>Wanted: Local workers for the oil and gas industry</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The oil and gas industry is facing increasing shortages of skilled workers. This could be an opportunity for oil- and gas-producing countries to boost the involvement of their local workforce.]]>
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	 <title>Labour market gender gap: Two steps forward, one step back</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The gender gap in global labour markets showed some convergence in the earlier part of the last decade but increased after the crisis erupted in 2007, according to an ILO report produced in collaboration with UN Women. The picture varies considerably among regions.]]>
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	 <title>Reversal of gains in women&#39;s employment
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	 	<![CDATA[Women are still more likely to be unemployed than men around the world. That&#39;s one of the conclusions of the ILO&#39;s Global Employment Trends for Women 2012. And the report also found that, while the numbers vary from region to region, the steady progress being made by women in the workplace slowed, stopped or reversed as a result of the global economic crisis.]]>
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	 <title>Economic crisis leads to huge changes in working practices</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Large numbers of employees are getting lower wages because they are working fewer hours and doing less overtime. Many are also ‘work sharing’ - in order to avoid being laid off.]]>
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	 <title>The broken link: Wages &amp; productivity
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	 	<![CDATA[Productivity is growing worldwide but wages are not keeping pace. That’s one of the conclusions of the Global Wage Report by the International Labour Organization. The report also confirms a continuing trend: employees in developing and emerging economies are earning more than they were before the global economic crisis began while workers in richer, developed countries are seeing their pay stagnate or even decline.]]>
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	 <title>SCORE: Small &amp; Medium Enterprise are key to development</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[SCORE -&#39;Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises&#39;- is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO that supports the sustainable growth of small and medium enterprises in order to foster development in emerging economies. 
Partnering with local employers&#39; organizations and training institutions, SCORE helps SMEs adopt socially responsible and environmentally sustainable work methods that boost their productivity.]]>
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	 <title>Gender pay gap drops, but not for the right reasons</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[An ILO report says women’s pay has become closer to that of men in most countries but warns that in some cases this may just mean that men are worse off now than before the crisis.]]>
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	 <title>Is it the end of a low-wage production model in China?</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[China’s long-held position as a country of cheap goods based on low-wage labour looks set to change, with wages rising sharply across the board, according to the latest ILO Global Wage Report.]]>
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	 <title>Minimum wages key to cutting working poverty, says ILO</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Minimum wages reduce working poverty and protect vulnerable workers. Their levels reflect both the needs of workers and the prevailing economic conditions and level of national income.]]>
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	 <title>Wage growth slows globally despite increases in emerging countries</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[New ILO figures show a continuing slowdown in global wages in developed countries and some resilience in emerging economies.]]>
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	 <title>Workers getting a smaller slice of the pie</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Workers have been getting a smaller share of national income, as a bigger slice has gone to profits in most countries. This trend has wide-ranging economic and social implications.]]>
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	 <title>Competitiveness and employment: Trying to square the circle</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Cutting costs can help a country become more competitive and boost exports as a result. But, as attractive as it may seem, EU countries, which trade heavily among themselves, cannot all gain a competitive edge at the same time.]]>
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	 <title>Jada Pinkett Smith: End Slavery Now!</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Today, 21 million women, men and children are trapped in slavery all over the world. Jada Pinkett Smith has teamed up with the ILO and its new campaign End Slavery Now, and so can you!]]>
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	 <title>The ILO and the EU improving safety and health at work through a Decent Work Agenda (short version)
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	 	<![CDATA[The European Union and the ILO SAFEWORK programme have engaged in a joint project to improve safety and health at work in Honduras, Malawi, The Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, and Zambia. This video gives an overview of the successes reached in these countries, leading to safe and healthy, decent workplace for all.]]>
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