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Labour market

Emerging economies: has growth translated into more and better jobs?

A new ILO book analyses labour market trends and regulations in various emerging markets and presents a number of policies that can lead to a synergy between economic growth and decent job creation.

Green entrepreneurs showcase their businesses at a regional knowledge sharing workshop in Kenya

The ILO Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) programme, which aims to create job opportunities for young people in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, organized a three-day regional knowledge sharing workshop for key project partners, stakeholders and...

Cooperation for gender and development

ILO and Sweden join forces to promote women’s employment in Turkey

Decent work in the green economy – National workshop for Turkey

Public-private partnership

Eliminating seasonal child labour in Turkey

The ILO teams up with European private industry to help prevent children from working in seasonal hazelnut harvesting in Turkey.

International Year of Cooperatives

Healing pharmacies

As the International Year of Cooperatives draws to an end, ILO News looks at how cooperatives in Turkey offer customers easier and safer access to medicines.

Weathering the crisis: A Turkish recipe

Turkey has managed to overcome the global financial crisis better than many European countries. How did it do it?

Azerbaijan’s Trade Unions Confederation in talks to sign agreements with foreign trade unions

The Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan has been conducting talks to conclude agreements with trade unions of Ukraine, Turkey and Russia’s Leningrad and Astrakhan regions envisioning mutual social protection of migrant workers, the...

Azerbaijan introduces new mechanism to determine minimum wage

Within the framework of the second phase of Azerbaijan’s state programme for ensuring decent work new mechanisms and standards to determine a minimum wage will be established, Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alakbarov said in his...

Statement of the ILO High-Level Bipartite Mission to Turkey (3-5 March 2010)

An ILO high-level bipartite mission, consisting of the Employers’ and Workers’ spokespersons of the International Labour Conference Committee on the Application of Standards, Mr Ed Potter and Mr Luc Cortebeeck, respectively, accompanied by Mrs...

UN Ministerial Conference, 2009

UN Ministerial Conference meets to review social policy options for a region, hard hit by the global economic crisis

The global economic and financial crisis has affected all countries, and Kazakhstan was no exception. In early 2009 the country faced a difficult situation on the labour market, particularly in oil- and gas-producing regions, Gulshara Abdykalikova,...

UN Ministerial Conference, 2009

UN Ministerial Conference to address the social impact of the economic crisis in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey

High-level representatives from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey will examine regional policy responses to the economic crisis at a UN Ministerial Conference jointly organized by four U.N. agencies (the ILO, UNICEF, FAO and UNDP) and hosted...

Maritime sector

Proper ship breaking: a test for globalization and decent work

The last voyage of the ship "Otapan" to a Turkish ship breaking yard last July was a victory for "pre-cleaning" advocates of reducing the human and environmental dangers inherent in ship dismantling and recycling. But does it also lead to decent...

Combating child labour: Lessons from the Turkish labour inspection experience

Over the last two years, more than 4,000 children and youth in three Turkish provinces have been withdrawn or prevented from entering the worst forms of child labour thanks to a labour inspection project launched by the ILO's International Programme...