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Contribution to the ILO International Women’s Day Panel: Empower Rural Women - End Hunger and Poverty by Ms. Sue Longley, Coordinator...
International Women’s Day: The IUF Calls for Strengthening Decent Work in Agriculture to Protect Women’s Rights
The coordinator for global agriculture at the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), Ms Sue Longley, stressed the need to strengthen decent work in agriculture to...
Q&A
Gender equality in the rural sector: The ever-present challenge
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day – Empower Rural Women, end poverty and hunger – highlights the need to tackle gender inequalities in the rural sector. Women living and working in rural areas are often perceived and treated as...
FAO and ILO publish a good practice guide on child labour in fisheries and aquaculture
To increase the knowledge base on child labour in fisheries and aquaculture and to provide assistance for policy makers and government authorities to combat this difficult issue, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and ILO have developed a...
ILO, UN DESA, IFAD, FAO launch joint initiatives to “unleash rural development through employment and decent work”
A meeting organized in November 2011 by the ILO, UN DESA, IFAD, FAO and attended by over 15 more agencies, NGOs, academia and media agreed on a set of concrete and practical joint initiatives at national and international levels to develop the...
Questions and Answers
Questions and answers on food security
Recent food price shocks threaten some 1 billion people with hunger. Meanwhile, there is growing evidence that climate change, along with rampant commodity speculation and lack of social protection are contributing to widespread food insecurity,...
Message of His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines at the ILO thematic year-end reception, media recognition and...
By His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines (delivered by Labour and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz) at the ILO thematic year-end reception, media recognition and UN photo exhibition on initiatives and...
News
Global South-South Development Expo 2011: ILO Solution Exchange Forum on social protection, decent work and food security
As part of the forthcoming 2011 Global South-South Development Expo, the International Labour Organization (ILO) will be hosting a Solution Exchange Forum on social protection, decent work and food security on 6 December at FAO headquarters in Rome,...
Kenya: Regional Seminar on the Role of Trade Unions in Rural Development and Youth Employment in Africa
The impact of pesticide exposure on child labourers in agriculture
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO held a side event during the conference (on 22 June at 13:00) to highlight the impact of pesticide exposure on children, and child labourers in particular....
Kazakhstan: national awareness-raising campaign “12 Days Against Child Labour”
Kazakhstan annually holds a national awareness-raising campaign “12 Days Against Child Labour” from June 1 to June 12. This year’s campaign used the ILO slogan “Warning! Children in hazardous work - End child labour.”
Street campaign for World Day Against Child Labour in Kyrgyzstan
On June 10, a street campaign entitled “Warning! Children in hazardous work - End child labour” devoted to the World Day Against Child Labour started in Kyrgyzstan under support of the ILO and the Republic’s Social Protection Ministry.
I-News
New UN report says rural women face increasing inequality: Calls for policies enabling women to drive rural economic growth and poverty...
A new United Nations interagency report on the gender dimension of agricultural work says women still benefit less than men from rural employment and face new challenges due to the current economic and food crises.
UN Agencies to launch new report on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas
Safety and health
Experts adopt new ILO Code of Practice on safety and health in agriculture
Experts representing workers, employers and governments, meeting at the International Labour Organization (ILO), have adopted a new draft Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Agriculture designed to improve working conditions in agriculture...
Labour migration and child labour in Kazakhstan
How to protect labour migrants’ rights and prevent child labour? These issues topped the agenda of a roundtable meeting focusing on working conditions of migrants employed in agriculture in the Almaty region.
Climate change resiliency: helping Agusan del Norte farming communities
Everyday farmers are facing the effects of El Niño or long dry spell. About one-half of the Filipino labour force is engaged in agriculture. Farms are drying up due to climate change which can have a huge impact of incomes of farmers. The...
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...
Regional experts discuss impact of financial crisis on jobs and global production networks
New research into the effects of the economic crisis on jobs in global production networks has been highlighted at an international meeting at Thammasat University. The meeting brought together experts and researchers from 14 countries in Asia and...
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