- Child Labour
- Decent work
- Domestic workers
- Economic and social development
- Employment promotion
- Employment security
- Equality and discrimination
- Forced labour
- Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
- Green jobs
- HIV/AIDS
- Labour administration and inspection
- Labour law
- Labour migration
- Millennium Development Goals
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- Skills, knowledge and employability
- Social security
- Tripartism and social dialogue
- Working conditions
- Youth employment
Resources on youth employment
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North Africa Employment Trends 2012 - An Interview with Dorothea Schmidt
24 January 2012
ILO TV interviews Dorothea Schmidt, a Senior ILO Employment Specialist based in Cairo, about rising unemployment across North Africa and the impact it is having in particular on young people and women. Based on findings from the ILO's Global Employment Trends 2012 report, she also discusses the lack of productive growth in North Africa and the need for further development of labour market institutions such as public employment services. Despite short-term negative effects on North African economies, Ms. Schmidt describes the ILO's hope that the Arab Spring of 2011 will have a positive impact on labour markets in the long-term.
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BBC: ILO Employment Report More Pessimistic Than Last Year
24 January 2012
BBC TV World Business Report interviews ILO Employment Specialist Kee Beom Kim in Bangkok to discuss the employment figures released in the ILO's Global Employment Trends 2012 report and explain what can be done to help boost job creation in the year to come.
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BBC: Jobs Crisis Continues Unabated
24 January 2012
BBC TV World Business Report interviews ILO Economist Steven Kapsos about "astonishing" numbers published in the ILO's Global Employment Trends 2012 report, including the need for 600 million jobs to be created over the next ten years, and the fact that over 900 million workers are living below the two dollar a day poverty line.
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BBC Reports on "Worrying Jobs Challenge"
24 January 2012
Citing global employment figures and the possibility of a "jobless generation", BBC TV World Business Report interviews Moazam Mahmood, Director of the ILO's Economic and Labour Market Analysis Department.
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Global Employment Trends 2012
23 January 2012
Three years after the global economic crisis devastated markets, wiped out savings, ruined businesses and disrupted the lives of billions of working people, the International Labour Organization’s annual report on global employment has concluded that the deep consequences of the crisis are continuing into 2012. The report also calls for a global response to create hundreds of millions of new, productive jobs in the next ten years.
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NHK interview: ILO Director-General on decent work and the need for job-rich growth in Asia
14 January 2012
The ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia, spoke with the Japanese broadcaster NHK during the 15th ILO Asia and Pacific Regional Meeting in Kyoto in December 2011. He talked about the challenges that Asia faces, including youth employment and the need for job-rich growth with decent work opportunities.
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BBC World reports on youth unemployment in Indonesia
16 December 2011
High unemployment rates mean many young Indonesians have no choice but to work odd jobs in the informal sector, a fact which experts say holds back Indonesia's economic potential. But there are solutions: this BBC report, part of a week-long series on youth employment issues, shows one young Indonesian woman who successfully opened a mobile phone repair shop after receiving skills training from the International Labour Organization.
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BBC World News Reports on Global Youth Unemployment
12 December 2011
A recent BBC World Service survey pointed to unemployment as the world's fastest-rising concern. The ILO's Executive Director of Employment, José Manuel Salazar, was interviewed at the start of BBC World TV's week-long focus on the issue of global youth unemployment. He explained why young people are disproportionately hit by unemployment and the social consequences for young people's long-term work prospects.
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Generation scarred by youth employment crisis
19 October 2011
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned of a "scarred" generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world.
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