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	 <title>Gender Pay Discrimination in Jordan: A Call for Change</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The International Labour Organization is working with the Jordanian government and its social partners to help narrow the pay gap between men and women.]]>
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	 <title>Towards equal pay for work of equal value in Jordan  </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[A study by the National Steering Committee on Pay Equity (NSCPE) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on pay discrimination in private schools and universities in Jordan has found a stark pay gap between women and men and put forward legal amendments to promote equal remuneration for all workers.This video presents a real life case of a teacher who left the private education sector due to issues of gender pay discrimination which she faced.]]>
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	 <title>Promoting Fire Safety in Bangladesh&#39;s Garment Factories </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[In March 2013 the tripartite constituents of the ILO - government, employers and workers - developed a National Tripartite Plan of Action on Fire Safety for the Ready-Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh.  It came about after two devastating fires at ready-made garment factories in 2012 and early 2013 killed 120 workers and injured many others. One of the activities in the Plan of Action, is to develop and deliver mass worker education tools, such as this video, to promote safety and health in the ready-made garments sector.]]>
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	 <title>Why jobs and livelihoods matter </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaching, Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist, explains why jobs and livelihoods should be at the centre of a post-2015 development agenda.]]>
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	 <title>ILO&#39;s Director-General visits a &quot;Hello-Work&quot; employment centre in Japan </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[On his first trip to Japan as ILO&#39;s Director-General, Guy Ryder visited one of the Japanese Public Employment Security (PES) Centres, also known as a &quot;Hello Work&quot; centre, which is part of a network that serves 170,000 people each day nationwide. He met with the staff of their largest &quot;Hello-Work&quot; office in Tokyo and saw how the employment security system worked from the job seeker&#39;s point of view.]]>
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	 <title>The new youth opportunities in Myanmar
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	 	<![CDATA[Listen to Steve Marshal, the ILO liaison officer in Yangon, and Sandar Soe, from the FTUB trade union federation, talk about the challenges and opportunities young workers are facing as the country undergoes a period of gradual reforms.]]>
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	 <title>ILO&#39;s Director-General visits China 
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	 	<![CDATA[On his first official visit to China, ILO&#39;s Director-General, Guy Ryder, visited the Beijing Haidian District Employment Centre, which serves 3.2 million job seekers. After meeting with officials of the Beijing Municipal Employment Service Centre and Haidian District Employment Centre, Mr Ryder was given a tour of the centre, and had the opportunity to talk to young job seekers.]]>
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	 <title>Lifting the barrier of intellectual disabilities </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[There are almost 200 million persons with intellectual disabilities in the world. For many of them, finding a stable job represents a major challenge. In Li’s case, a little help has made a big difference.]]>
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	 <title>Youth jobs’ gains wiped out by slow recovery</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[A new ILO report says the long-term impact of the youth employment crisis could be felt for decades, creating a generation at risk of suffering decent work deficits throughout their lives.]]>
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	 <title>Global employment trends for youth 2013 - A generation at risk
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	 	<![CDATA[An estimated 73.4 million young people - 12.6 per cent – are expected to be out of work in 2013, and the picture is only set to get worse say Sara Elder and Theo Sparreboom, authors of the Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report.  Youth face persistent unemployment, a proliferation of temporary jobs and growing discouragement in advanced economies; and poor quality, informal, subsistence jobs in developing countries. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but as Sara Elder and Theo Sparreboom explain, there are measures that governments - as well as trade unions and employers - can take to boost youth employment.]]>
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	 <title>Denmark - Matching skills to jobs</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Recovery in Europe is being hampered by the fact that many of the workers who lost their jobs to the crisis do not have the skills that the labour market now demands. Vocational training programmes help keep youth connected to the labour market by ensuring they have the skills that companies are looking for.]]>
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	 <title>Making the move from school to work in Malawi and Zambia</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The global jobs crisis is taking a heavy toll on young people in the advanced
economies of Europe where 1 in five are out of work, but in the developing world the situation is much more severe. Two out of three young people in developing countries are either unemployed or trying to survive day to day in low paying, irregular jobs. There is an
urgent need for training and education programs that prepare young people with the skills employers are looking for.]]>
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	 <title>Sweden tackles youth unemployment through jobs guarantees </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[It&#39;s not easy being a young jobseeker today. With nearly 74 million young people worldwide unemployed, youth guarantees programmes help keep youth connected to the labour market by boosting skills and giving them support to find jobs.]]>
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	 <title>Informal, poorly paid and unemployed: The reality of work for most youth in developing countries</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[School-to-work transition surveys of developing countries show that youth are far more likely to land low quality jobs in the informal economy than jobs paying decent wages and offering benefits. Access to education and training remains a major stumbling block.]]>
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	 <title>Policies for youth employment: A global framework to tackle the youth jobs crisis</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The current jobs crisis has hit young people especially hard.    The ILO urges policy makers to work together with social partners to address this alarming situation. The 2013 edition of the ILO&#39;s Global Employment Trends for Youth report analyses a number of key policies and action that can be taken.  Gianni Rosas, coordinator of the ILO Youth Employment Programme and co-author of the Report, calls for &quot;a strong focus on growth and jobs, including through a more coordinated macroeconomic response at national and global levels&quot;.]]>
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	 <title>A smart way to prevent bonded labour</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[A young couple and their new baby are the first beneficiaries of a national health insurance scheme which now extends to migrant brick kiln workers at risk of bondage, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.]]>
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	 <title>Tackling Bonded Labour in Tamil Nadu
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	 	<![CDATA[In India&#39;s Tamil Nadu state, thousands of people desperate for money are offered advance payments to work in the region&#39;s many brick kilns. While this system has worked well enough in the past for both employers and workers, many workers run the risk of &quot;debt bondage&quot; because they cannot leave the worksite until they repay the advance in full. But the situation is changing now, by ILO working with government and employers, and showing workers how they can take more control of their own lives.]]>
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	 <title>Protecting children from having to work</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Social protection measures can help reduce the incidence of child labour, says Constance Thomas, Director of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).]]>
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	 <title>Video message by ILO Director-General Guy Ryder </title>
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	 <title>Beating the Dust Disease in Thailand

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	 	<![CDATA[An estimate of 200,000 workers are at risk of developing pneumoconiosis in Thailand. ILO’s Senior Specialist in Occupational Safety and Health, Dr. Igor Fedotov says, “It would not be an exaggeration to say that millions are at risk around the world” and these cases are often being unreported. With the help of the ILO, however, the Thai Ministry of Health has increased the number of skilled doctors to treat and support workers diagnosed with the lung disease, making Thailand a leader among developing economies.]]>
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