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Message at the Kabataan (Youth) Jobs and Alternatives to Migration

By Ambassador Jorge Manuel Domecq Fernandez de Babadilla, Embassy of Spain at the Kabataan (Youth) Jobs and Alternatives to Migration, Pasay City, Philippines

Keynote address at the Kabataan (Youth) Jobs and Alternatives to Migration

By His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III, President, Republic of the Philippines, SMX Convention Center, Pasay City, Philippines

Message at the Kabataan (Youth) Jobs and Alternatives to Migration

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Phlippines at the Kabataan (Youth) Jobs and Alternatives to Migration, Pasay City, Philippines

Opening address at the Philippine Employment Projections Appreciation Seminar

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Makati City, Philippines

Press statement at the First Philippine Green Jobs Conference Joint Media and Website Launch

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Manila, Philippines

Message at the International Youth Day 2011: Kabataan Jobs and Alternatives to Migration by Ms Jacqui Badcock, United Nations Resident...

Message at the International Youth Day 2011: Kabataan Jobs and Alternatives to Migration

Message at the International Youth Day 2011: Kabataan Jobs and Alternatives to Migration by H.E. Jorge Domecq, Ambassador of Spain, 12...

Message at the International Youth Day 2011: Kabataan Jobs and Alternatives to Migration

Message at the International Youth Day 2011: Kabataan Jobs and Alternatives to Migration by Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson Director, ILO Country...

Message at the International Youth Day 2011: Kabataan Jobs and Alternatives to Migration

President Aquino’s speech celebrating International Youth Day, August 12, 2011

Speech of His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines Celebrating International Youth Day 2011: “KA JAM” (Kabataan Jobs and Alternatives to Migration)

Ph fight against child labour continues

Jason (not his real name), wishes he has more time to play. However, unlike children of his age, he struggles to balance schooling and work to help provide the needs of his family. At the age of 12, he works for a charcoal manufacturer where he...

Teaching entrepreneurship to high school students

Teachers and supervisors from public high schools were trained on teaching entrepreneurship to their students. The Millennium Development Goal Fund (MDG F) Joint Programme on Youth, Employment and Migration through the International Labour...

Opening address at the Training on Inspection in the Application of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), 2006

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Subic, Philippines

Opening remarks at the Philippine World Day against Child Labour

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

Philippines’ fight against hazardous child labour goes on-line

(Manila, Philippines) Rodel Morcozo, a former child labour, now works for Senator Loren Legarda and is a strong advocate against child labour. To fight against child labour, the Philippines launched an internet site-- Child Labor Knowledge Sharing...

World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2011

From child labourer to child advocate: How Rodel succeeded in leaving the mineshaft

More than half (53 per cent) of the 215 million child labourers worldwide do hazardous work. While their number is increasing among older children, aged 15-17, progress is being made for younger children, aged 5-14, says the latest ILO report on...

New ILO Global Report on Equality at Work 2011 Global economic crisis opens up new space for discrimination at work, ILO says

MANILA (ILO News) – In a new study, the International Labour Office (ILO) notes that in spite of continuous positive advances in anti-discrimination legislation, the global economic and social crisis has led to a higher risk of discrimination...

Speech at the 32nd National Conference of Employers

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines

Solidarity message at the Joint TUCP and UNI-PLC Labour Day 2011 Celebration

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Pasay City, Philippines

Window of opportunity for Asia to improve gender equality at work - ILO, ADB

MANILA (ILO News): Asian countries have a window of opportunity to tackle gender inequality in their labour markets and support sustainable crisis recovery, according to a new report prepared jointly by the International Labour Organization (ILO)...

ILO and ADB to issue joint report on situation of working women in Asia

MANILA (ILO NEWS): A new report on how women are faring in the world of work will be issued by the by the International Labour Organization (ILO)* and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday 29 April, in the run-up to Labour Day on May 1.