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• 11 million people to lose their jobs by the end of 2013: World of Work Report 2012
  1 May 2012. The number of people falling out of employment globally continues to increase and there are no signs the situation will improve in the near future, according to the International Labour Organization.
• Modernizing OSH management system: conference in Moscow
  27 April 2012. “Since 2005 we’ve made a great step forward to switch to a new model of occupational safety and health,” Deputy Health and Social Development Minister Alexander Safonov told a research conference on modernization of Russia’s occupational safety and health legislation that was devoted to the World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
• Astana hosts international occupational safety and health conference KIOSH 2012
  26-27 April 2012. On April 26-27 Astana hosted the 2nd Kazakhstan International Occupational Safety and Health Conference and Exhibition KIOSH 2012 that was timed to coincide with the World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
• UNAIDS and ITUC to work together to increase access to HIV services for workers
  25 April 2012. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to eliminate stigma and discrimination, protect human rights and facilitate access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for workers.
• Russia to ratify ILO Paid Educational Leave Convention
  20 April 2012. A draft federal law on ratification of the ILO Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No.140) will be submitted to the government for consideration soon.
• Kazakh agency reports HIV incidence statistics
  13 April 2012. In all 171 new carriers of HIV infection were registered in Kazakhstan in February 2012, and at the same time the figure for the same period of 2011 is 180, the Kazakh State Statistics Agency has reported.
• Head of Migration Service of Tajikistan leaves for Geneva
  13 April 2012. Head of Migration Service of Tajikistan Safiallo Devonaev leaves for Geneva on Friday, CA-News was told by the press service of the Migration Service.
• Russia’s State Duma ratifies ILO’s Protection of Workers’ Claims Convention
  10 April 2012. On April 10 the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament ratified ILO’s Protection of Workers’ Claims (Employer’s Insolvency) Convention, 1992 (No. 173).
• Microinsurance coverage expanding at breathtaking pace according to ILO and the Munich Re Foundation
  10 April 2012. The number of microinsurance schemes worldwide has increased substantially over the past five years and now reaches an estimated 500 million worldwide, according to the Microinsurance Innovation Facility of the International Labour Organization and the Munich Re Foundation.
• Russia’s leading researcher in migration dies
  7 April 2012. On April 7 one of the leading researchers of the Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Elena Tyuryukanova, died suddenly.

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