News, articles and statements
February 2021
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Vision Zero Fund High–Level Forum
Improving safety and health in global supply chains vital for development
23 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown what happens when occupational safety and health systems are under-resourced and unprepared. Improving the protection of working people, particularly in global supply chains, is vital for social and economic development, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, told a meeting of the Vision Zero Fund.
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Our impact, their voices
Additional incomes help rural communities of Timor-Leste during the pandemic
22 February 2021
To assist the economic recovery, the ILO with support from its social partners in Timor-Leste support rural communities to survive the COVID-19 pandemic by providing direct employment opportunities.
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Community Emergency Employment Programme
A fight for survival amid the pandemic
19 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected workers in the informal economy like Mohalidin. A father of 15 children, he shares his experience and life changing impact basic income and social protection can have for families struggling to survive.
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Action in the Global Garment Industry
COVID 19: Action in the Global Garment Industry 2021 Outlook
12 February 2021
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© Pathumporn Thongking/UN Women 2021
Health at work
ILO joins partnership to promote global health
09 February 2021
The ILO has joined 12 other multilateral organizations in a partnership to promote health at work and elsewhere, and help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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News
EU and ILO reinforce cooperation for just recovery from crisis and promote decent work
04 February 2021
The International Labour Organization and the European Union have reinforced their cooperation to shape the future of work and promote decent work. This will help the EU and the ILO in their responses to the devastating impact of the coronavirus crisis on the world of work.
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NEDLAC Labour School 2021
This global crisis must have a global, united, response
01 February 2021
Greater international solidarity and common purpose are needed to build economic and social recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said in an address to South Africa’s NEDLAC Labour School.
January 2021
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Statement
Statement by the Secretary-General of IMO and the Director-General of ILO’s calling for attention to the matter of ʺno crew changeʺ clauses in charterparties
15 January 2021
December 2020
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ILO e-LabadminOSH 2020
ILO electronic library on labour administration and inspection and occupational safety and health
20 December 2020
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© KB Mpofu / ILO 2021
Jobs for peace and resilience
COVID-19 is a threat to peacebuilding in conflict-affected nations
17 December 2020
Humanitarian and development agencies should use COVID-19 crisis programmes to promote resilience and peace and help societies build back better.
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© Jérémy Stenuit 2021
COVID-19 and price inflation
COVID-19 drives up food prices worldwide
10 December 2020
COVID-19 restrictions have altered consumer spending patterns. In particular, lockdown measures have affected the supply of and demand for certain products and, hence, their prices.
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© Cai Yang / Xinhua via AFP 2021
Maritime Labour Convention
ILO Governing Body calls for urgent action on seafarer COVID-19 crisis
08 December 2020
Its resolution addresses the plight of hundreds of thousands of seafarers who have been trapped at sea for as many as 17 months or longer because of pandemic restrictions.
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News
Saudi Arabia ratifies ILO conventions setting out safeguards with crucial importance for the response to COVID-19
07 December 2020
Saudi Arabia ratifies the Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) and the Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120).
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News
What did ILO COOP do around the global COVID-19 pandemic?
04 December 2020
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© ILO 2021
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Shine a purple spotlight on disability
03 December 2020
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the ILO took part in a day-long series of online events across six continents that called for countries to make people with disabilities a priority in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Thinking Ahead on Society Change (TASC) Platform
Stakeholders invited to debate Future of Work
02 December 2020
Collective thinking needed to tackle the challenges of the future of work says new International Geneva open forum platform.
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© ILO 2021
Global Wage Report 2020-21
COVID-19 drives wages down, new ILO report finds
02 December 2020
Even before the COVID pandemic hit, hundreds of millions of workers worldwide were being paid less than the minimum wage.
November 2020
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© ILO 2021
International Day of Persons With Disabilities
Make persons with disabilities a priority in the COVID-19 response
30 November 2020
Disability issues need to be included in pandemic recovery plans says the ILO’s Global Business and Disability Network.
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© Marcin Jozwiak 2021
Work-life balance
Working mothers squeezed out of labour force by COVID-19
30 November 2020
Families are making tough decisions about who keeps their paid job and who quits to provide the unpaid care needed at home during the COVID-19 crisis. Mainly it is women who are sacrificing their careers.
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Media advisory
ILO to release new report on global wages and COVID-19
27 November 2020