Facts & News

Unemployment, working poor and vulnerable employment to increase dramatically due to global economic crisis. Press release 28 January 2009.

Global Employment Trends Report 2009

Juan Somavia elected to third term as ILO Director-General - Says will work to address financial crisis, ensure social justice. 18 November 2008.

2007 Labour overview. Latin America and The Caribbean

Global Employment Trends - 2008. ILO projects global economic turbulence could generate five million more unemployed in 2008

Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization concludes. ILO Director-General calls for “Decent Work Movement”

Cooperation between Cinterfor/ILO and the European Training Foundation (ETF)

ILO Report: Key indicators of the labour market (KILM). 5th Edition, Geneva 2007

New ILO report says US leads the world in labour productivity, some regions are catching up, most lag behind. Press release ILO/07/47. 02 September 2007.

The 96th annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded after holding extensive discussions on new approaches to promoting sustainable enterprises and decent work

Report of the Director General. Equality at work: Tackling the challenges

ILO Resource guide on the informal economy

ILO Report: Global Employment Trends 2007. Global unemployment remains at historic high despite strong economic growth. Modest gains in reducing working poverty

ILO, UNDP join forces to promote growth for decent jobs. Press releases February 2007 (ILO/07/03)

UNESCO-UNEVOC: Participation in Formal TVET Worldwide. An Initial Statistical Study. 2007.

Gamerdinger, G.W. Workforce Development: Broadening Roles for National Training Agencies in Small Islands States

Knowledge Fair on Decent Work and Informal Economy

Decent Work and the Millennium Development Goals - An ILO information folder

Decent work in the Americas: An Agenda for the Hemisphere, 2006-2015.

ILO Director-General lauds formation of new global union federation representing 166 million workers. Globalization makes ILO's labour standards increasingly essential

ILO Decent Work Research Prize 2007: Call for nominations

ILO Asian Regional Meeting concludes its work. Launches decent work decade

ILO's 95th annual Labour Conference concludes. Geneva, June 2006.

ILO hails new UN Declaration on strengthening global efforts to promote Decent Work for poverty reduction and sustainable development

President of Costa Rica H.E. Oscar Arias addresses International Labour Conference: "Decent work lies at the heart of peace". Geneva: ILO, 2006

New ILO Global Report. The end of child labour: Within reach. Report of the Director General, 95 th International Labour Conference 2006. Report I (B)

ILO Press releases. Regional Meeting for the Americas 2-5 May. Youth employment in Latin America: Overcoming a lost decade

ILO Press releases. Formal work deficit affects 126 million Latin Americans. ILO proposes an Agenda for the Hemisphere to generate decent work. Issue to be discussed at the Sixteenth ILO American Regional Meeting.

Vocational Training in Denmark. ILO 2006

Skill is power: broadening partnerships to promote youth employment

ILO Director-General warns of "unprecedented jobs crisis". Hails World Economic Forum focus on jobs creation.

ILO Labour Overview 2005 Latin America and the Caribbean (First Semester Advance Report)

Knowledge Fair on Decent Work and Informal Economy

The Inequality Predicament. Report on the World Social Situation 2005 - United Nations

World employment report 2004-05. Employment, productivity and poverty reduction. Geneva, 2005

The Heart Trust / Nta. Annual Report 2004-2005

93rd annual Conference of the ILO concludes its work. Delegates pave the way for urgent action on key labour concerns

Director-General’s introduction to the International Labour Conference: Consolidating progress and moving ahead

World employment report 2004-05. Employment, productivity and poverty reduction. Geneva, 2005

Youth: Pathways to decent work. Report VI to the ILC, 93rd Session, 2005

Cedefop is launching a follow-up online survey entitled: 'Competence development in organisations' within the European Union

Employment Training in Caribbean: A study of 5 countries. Thomas McArdle. Senior Director, Planning and project development. November, 2004

World Day against Child labour, June 12. A Load Too Heavy: Children in mining and quarrying

Protect our children... Stop child labour. Child labour continues to exist throughout the world and even right here in the Caribbean

ILO to launch comprehensive new report on global forced labour

World Day for Safety and Health at Work. An Annual Event. 28 April 2005.

Youth unemployment at all time high; new ILO report says half the world's jobless are under 24

HRD Recommendation database

Recommendation concerning Human Resources Development: Education, Training and Lifelong Learning

ILO Global Employment Trends 2004

ILO. Informal Economy Resource Database

Strengthening National Employment Training in the Caribbean: Identifying Practices and Mapping Resources. George Gamerdinger, ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean

Industrial Training Institutes of India: the efficiency report. Vladimir Gasskov, ILO Subregional Office for South Asia

Final report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization:
"A FAIR GLOBALIZATION - Creating opportunities for all". Geneva, 24 February 2004

2003 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean

HEART Trust/NTA, the National Training Agency of Jamaica, has launched new website

ILO Caribbean Office and Multidisciplinary Advisory Team

Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies (CANTA)
Memorandum of agreement

Message by George Gamerdinger, Senior Specialist on HRD and Vocational Training of the ILO Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean, on the establishment of CANTA

The role of TVET and the Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies (CANTA) and allied bodies within the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), by Robert Gregory, Executive Director of the HEART Trust/NTA

SENA (National Training Service): first State Institution in Colombia to obtain an Educational Quality Certification

INSAFORP supports implementation of ISO 9000

Letter of Recife. Occupational Qualification: between the right to education and the labour market. Document approved in the National Seminar on Public Policies of Labour and Education. Recife, September 22nd and 23rd, 2003

The Kingston Declaration. ILO Sub-regional Meeting on Strengthening Women-Owned Enterprises Through increased access to International and Regional Markets. Kingston, Jamaica: 23-25 July 2003

The ILO/US-DOL Caribbean Labour Market Information System (CLMIS) Project: enhancing labour market information for effective planning and monitoring

SENATI obtains the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification of its management system

ILO launches first global report on discrimination at work
Says workplace discrimination remains a persistent global problem, with new, more subtle forms emerging

Principles and Rights at work of the ILO in the context of the XII Inter-American Labour Conference of Ministers of Labour of the Organization of American States (OAS)

Strategic Plan 2002-2006. "SENA: A Knowledge Organisation"

Address by Robert Gregory, Executive Director HEART Trust/NTA, to the Annual Jamaica Employers Federation (JEF) Conference
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, May 30, 2003

The Right to Decent Work for People with Disabilities. ILO Working Paper No. 14

Chile Califica - Programme of Continuing Education and Training

World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization

 

 

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