GENEVA (ILO News) – The prolonged jobs crisis, despite some promising signs of growth, continues to defy global efforts by governments and businesses to generate employment and end the growing hardships people are suffering in their search for work.
In this context, the 100th International Labour Conference (ILC), currently in session, has brought together some 4,000 delegates from government, employers’ and workers’ organizations from 183 Member States to address the major social and economic challenges unfolding globally.
Over the next week, the Conference will host a series of high-level panel discussions involving former heads of state and government, senior policy makers, UN officials and civil society to explore the range of policy approaches and initiatives that have been enacted to tackle these challenges.
These interactive, moderated panels will take an in-depth look at a series of economic and social issues with a view to highlighting specific efforts to generate decent jobs, reduce barriers to youth employment, as well as create a fairer, more sustainable globalization. The high-level panels include:
Arab Youth: Aspiring for Social Justice (9 June) – Leading journalists and activists will review recent developments in the region through the perspective of young people who made these changes happen by tackling the challenges of exclusion, poverty and inequality;
Global Youth: Leading Change (9 June) – Global youth leaders will explore key employment, social and political challenges faced by youth in different regions of the world and discuss practical programmes and efforts to address these issues;
Employment and Social Justice in a Globalizing Economy (13 June) – Ministers of Labour and Finance, and other senior policymakers will discuss measures needed to ensure that economic growth translates into decent work;
UN Regional Commissions: “The role of decent work in a fairer, greener and more sustainable globalization” (14 June) – The Heads of the United Nations Regional Economic Commissions will discuss efforts to achieve “efficient” growth patterns that distribute benefits and opportunities in a balanced way and suggest needed changes in international and regional institutions to achieve greater policy coherence and improved governance around Decent Work;
Club of Madrid: “The need for a new era of social justice” (15 June) – Several former heads of state and government will discuss lessons learned from the recent crisis to strengthen recovery and to build the foundation for strong, sustainable and balanced growth.
For more details on the guest panellists and the discussions, please see “On the agenda of the 100th Session of the ILC”.
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