What's new
2017
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World Social Protection Report 2017-2019
Social protection is a human right but how many benefit?
29 November 2017
The ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2017-19 provides recent data on social protection systems around the world, and monitors progress towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It shows that more efforts are needed to extend coverage in many countries, but achieving universal social protection is possible.
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Policy brief
Making TVET and skills systems inclusive of persons with disabilities
27 November 2017
This policy brief focuses on how mainstream Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and skills development systems can contribute to improving the labour market situation of persons with disabilities.
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News
ILO Project Helps Disadvantaged Young People Enter the Labour Market
17 November 2017
The ILO supports the Agency for Employment of the Perm Territory, Russian Federation, in improving its package of programmes and services to the population. For that purpose, the ILO pilots wage subsidy programme with mentorship targeting disadvantaged young people.
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Easy-to-read version of joint UN Global Compact and ILO guide for employers on disability rights
What companies should do to support the rights of people with disabilities
30 October 2017
This easy-to-read version of the UN Global Compact/ILO "Guide for business on the rights of persons with disabilities - How business can respect and support the rights of persons with disabilities and benefit from inclusion" suggests concrete actions and measures companies can take to implement good practices that are inclusive of persons with disabilities in the workplace, marketplace and in the community - in alignment with relevant UN conventions and frameworks.
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Business and persons with disabilities
Three multinational enterprises join the ILO’s Global Business and Disability Network
23 October 2017
More leading companies join the 17-member network and commit to the ten principles of the Global Business and Disability Charter.
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Regional meeting on disability inclusion in the private sector
Disability inclusion makes business sense - also in Latin America
18 September 2017
More than 30 business and disability representatives from 12 Latin American countries exchanged their ideas on how to promote regional cooperation among different initiatives during a recent workshop organized by the ILO Global Business and Disability Network (GBDN). GBDN members Adecco, Carrefour, L'Oréal, Repsol, Legrand and Handicap International also participated in the meeting.
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How business can respect and support the rights of persons with disabilities and benefit from inclusion
Guide for business on the rights of persons with disabilities
22 August 2017
Developed jointly by the UN Global Compact and the ILO, the "Guide for business on the rights of persons with disabilities - How business can respect and support the rights of persons with disabilities and benefit from inclusion" suggests concrete actions and measures companies can take to implement good practices that are inclusive of persons with disabilities in the workplace, marketplace and in the community - in alignment with relevant UN conventions and frameworks.
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Joint UN Global Compact and ILO guide for employers on disability rights
How business can respect and support the rights of persons with disabilities
22 August 2017
Developed jointly by the UN Global Compact and the ILO, the "Guide for business on the rights of persons with disabilities - How business can respect and support the rights of persons with disabilities and benefit from inclusion" suggests concrete actions and measures companies can take to implement good practices that are inclusive of persons with disabilities in the workplace, marketplace and in the community - in alignment with relevant UN conventions and frameworks.
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Video
How can business promote diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments?
04 August 2017
Mark Bell, Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, explains how reasonable adjustments at the workplace enable employees to bring their full professional potential to work and thereby promote diversity and inclusion as well as contribute to business success.
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07 July 2017
ILO Bangladesh Newsletter
31 July 2017