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Regional official launch of the “Win-Win: Gender equality means good business" ILO, UNWomen and EU, Sao Paulo, Brasil

ILO training course for LGBTI

ILO helps open doors to the labour market for LGBTI people in Brazil

Landmark pilot project inspires broader strategy to promote decent and productive work for vulnerable groups.

Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Labour and Employment

ILO head praises BRICS countries’ commitment to social dialogue

Guy Ryder highlights the major contribution BRICS countries can make to social dialogue, social protection, gender equality and youth employment.

BRICS Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

Make social dialogue work

ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, praises the commitment to social dialogue and tripartism made by BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - in a speech at the group’s Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting in South Africa.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Redesol - Building sustainable and solidary links among waste pickers in the informal economy in Brazil

"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue ILO interviewed Ms Sonia...

HIV/AIDS

AIDS’ impact on the labour force costs billions in lost earnings: ILO

An ILO report highlights the toll HIV and AIDS continue to take on the labour force, and its economic and social implications. The ILO calls for urgent efforts to close the treatment gaps, step up testing and prevention measures, and ensure workers...

World Employment and Social Outlook 2018

24 million jobs to open up in the green economy

ILO flagship report estimates job losses and job creation as the world moves to a greener economy.

International Women’s Day

ILO: Women still less likely to be active in the labour market than men in most of the world

Despite notable progress over the past 20 years, updated ILO figures show persistent inequalities between women and men on access to the labour market, unemployment and conditions at work.

Subregional conference sums up results of Youth Employment Project, identifies priorities for Phase 2

TURIN (ILO News) - On 13-16 February, a sub-regional kick-off conference for the second phase of the ILO Project “Partnerships for Youth Employment in the CIS" was held. The second phase will be implemented in 2018-2022 by ILO Moscow with financial...

Forced labour

Hundreds of Brazilian workers rescued at least twice from slavery in past 15 years

The Digital Observatory of Slave Labour in Brazil, a joint project by the ILO and the Federal Labour Prosecution Office, has issued new data on slave labour in the country.

Domestic work

Convention No. 189 on domestic workers ratified by Brazil

Brazil promotes decent work for an estimated 7 million domestic workers.

World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2018

ILO: Unemployment and decent work deficits to remain high in 2018

The ILO’s flagship report shows that while the global unemployment rate is stabilizing, unemployment and decent work deficits will stay at persistently high levels in many parts of the world.

ILO: In 2017 unemployment rose for the third consecutive year in Latin America and the Caribbean, but is expected to go down next year

The rate will decline in 2018 if all the forecasts for economic growth are maintained, says the ILO on presenting the annual Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean report. The region presented mixed challenges, with some signs of...

The 2017 edition of the ITC ILO Gender Academy includes an elective and a master course touching upon cooperatives

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017

Weak recovery in youth labour markets demands a sweeping response

Despite a significant fall in youth unemployment since the height of the economic crisis in 2009, persistent unemployment and a lack of quality job opportunities continue to hamper young people’s quest for decent work.

Decent work

How decent work can transform cotton production

South-South Project uses good practices in Brazil to promote decent work in cotton production in African and Latin American countries.

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

Accreditation open for the Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour in Argentina

Decent work

International Labour Organization (ILO) and Brazilian Government promote decent work in the cotton supply chain in Mozambique

The Government of Mozambique and the Brazilian Government have identified key areas of support for a country project to be implemented by the Government of Mozambique, organizations of workers, organizations of employers and civil society...

World Employment and Social Outlook: Sustainable Enterprises and Jobs

Sluggish SME development hurts jobs and the economy, ILO says

Investing in workers and innovation, and boosting trade and social dialogue are key to stemming rising global unemployment, the latest edition of the ILO's flagship report shows.

Modern slavery and child labour

40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the world

New data reveal that the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal Target 8.7, will not be achieved unless efforts to fight modern slavery and child labour are dramatically increased.