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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024
Number of youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET) a cause for concern, despite falling jobless rate
New ILO report finds high shares of youth NEETs, regional and gender gaps, and growing youth anxiety about work, despite encouraging global youth unemployment trends.
Generative AI could transform millions of jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean but digital divide poses challenges
Up to half of the jobs in the region for which GenAI could improve productivity – some 17 million – are hindered by gaps in digital access and infrastructure, according to a new ILO and World Bank study.
The Global Coalition for Social Justice and our collective responsibility
Equality of access to education, healthcare, and decent work, including workplaces free of harassment and violence, are the foundations upon which a just society is built. By guaranteeing these pillars, we can aspire to a society where equal...
The third edition of the diploma course on the Design and Management of Social Protection Programmes with a Results-Based Budgeting has...
The Catholic University “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción” diploma stems as an initiative by the SP&PFM country project, implemented by ILO and UNICEF with the support of the European Union in Paraguay and in partnership with the University of Chile.
Debunking myths about social protection
How do we finance the social protection we need?
Paraguay has advanced the technical solutions to develop a solid and broad social protection system. However, according to experts, it is important to focus on political solutions, which may mean opening up discussions about tax reform and reach...
Debunking myths about social protection
How can we get a pension?
In Paraguay, people contribute less than 30% of the time they could to a pension system, whether due to being in informal occupations, in unpaid carework, or due to the lack of knowledge of workers and employers about their right to social security....
Debunking myths about social protection
Who is in charge of social protection?
In Paraguay, the ¡Vamos! Social Protection System develops an integral, multidimensional and multicausal approach to social protection that articulates the effort of all the institutions involved in it. It pretends to overcome the fragmentation,...
ILO to address the main challenges facing the world of work in the post-pandemic period at a new edition of the Sustainable Development...
Two events organized by the ILO will be part of the agenda of the sixth meeting of this Forum, and will highlight the current labor challenges and the strategies to be implemented to promote decent work and sustainable development.
Paraguay: National Employment Policy with Decent Work and Inclusive Economic Growth Presented
The activity was held in the presence of the Director of the ILO Office for the Southern Cone of Latin America, Fabio Bertranou and the Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Carla Bacigalupo.
Emerging Insight: Innovating to provide inclusive insurance during the pandemic
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.
Migrant Workers
Labour migration: Towards more cooperation between Trade Unions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
Jobs in Latin America
Latin American and Caribbean unemployment to rise in 2016
The evolution of labour markets in the region will be analyzed at ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, to be held in Mexico this month.
Strengthening leadership capacities of stakeholders from Nepal and Paraguay to influence policies on migrant domestic workers
The Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) supported participation of the stakeholders from Nepal and Paraguay in the training organized by UN Women on Gender, Migration, Development: A Matter of Rights,...
Law on Domestic Work in Paraguay Approved
The Paraguayan Parliament approved a law on Domestic Work, equating domestic workers’ rights with all wage-workers. The law is based on the ILO Convention 189, which was earlier ratified by Paraguay in May 2013 and required harmonization with the...
Women Migrant Rights discussed at the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Representatives of Member States, UN entities and ECOSOC-accredited NGOs from different regions of the world attended the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Migrant domestic workers’ rights were discussed at several side events,...
Argentina
New law leads to new life for migrant domestic workers
After decades of labor organizing and with the support of the ILO, Argentina has passed a new migration policy to make life better for domestic workers.
Latin America and the Caribbean assume the commitment to completely end child labour
The Focal Points Network of the “Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour”, launched its first face-to-face meeting in Brasilia
Bi-national Agreement Promoting Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers in Paraguay-Argentina Migration Corridor
Domestic workers’ organizations and trade union confederations from Paraguay and Argentina signed a bi-national agreement in order to promote decent work for Paraguayan migrant domestic workers in Argentina. This was the main output of a bi-national...
Paraguay
Rights to social protection: domestic workers are no exception
A communications campaign to enrol more domestic workers in Paraguay with social security is showing the first signs of success.