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Questions and Answers

Youth employment in crisis: Questions and answers on the situation of youth on the labour market

Young people have been disproportionately affected by the global crisis that broke out in the autumn of 2008. This trend has exacerbated earlier challenges and there is concern that unless action is taken, the situation of youth will become...

Timor-Leste to receive funding for social security development from Brazil: South-South cooperation project worth more than $500,000

The agreement was signed at a ceremony held during the International Labour Conference (ILC), in Geneva. The ILC is the annual meeting of the 183 member states of the International Labour Organization (ILO) the UN agency dealing with work and...

Cooperation against Child Labour

Brazil, U.S. and ILO to expand fight against child labour in post-earthqake Haiti - first ILO North-South-South "triangular agreement"

Brazil and the United States have joined forces to expand the fight against child labour in Haiti, in the first “triangular agreement” on North-South-South cooperation to be signed under the auspices of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Social security

Social security for all, the Brazilian way

Brazil has been at the fore front of social security protection and promotion in Latin American over the past years. Its social protection programmes are widely regarded both for their scope and innovation. The Brazilian Deputy Minister for Social...

Statement by Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, Presidente de la República Federativa de Brasil addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis

Brazil extends Bolsa Familia during the economic crisis

When the first signs of financial trouble emerged in the industrialized world, predictions were that the “decoupling effect” would insulate the developing world from the crisis. Today, the economic crisis is clearly global and no country is immune....

Development cooperation

Brazil becomes first donor country from the South to ILO’s Regular Budget Supplementary Account

The Government of the Federal Republic of Brazil will contribute US$ 300,000 to the ILO’s Regular Budget Supplementary Account (RBSA), becoming the first donor country from the South to do so. Brazil's contribution will support field programmes in...

Brazilian Minister of Labour and Indian Minister of Labour hold up a Red Card to child labour

The Brazilian Minister of Labour, Mr. Carlos Lupi, and Indian Minister of Labour, Mr. Oscar Fernandes, hold up a red card to child labour and announce South-South cooperation to combat child labour, particularly its worst forms.

Soccer Legend and former Brazilian Minister of Sports, Pele joigned the Red Card Campaign

Soccer Legend and former Brazilian Minister of Sports Pele has been a member of the Red Card Campaign since 2007.

Forced labour in Brazil: 120 years after the abolition of slavery, the fight goes on

On May 13th 1888, Brazil became the last nation in the Western Hemisphere to formally abolish slavery. One-hundred and twenty years later, it is estimated that 25,000 to 40,000 workers are still victims of conditions analogous to slavery in this...