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Safety and health at work

Questions and answers on Occupational Safety and Health in times of economic crisis

With credit barely flowing and global demand on a downward slide, enterprises around the world are struggling to cope with the global economic crisis. Meanwhile, the numbers of unemployed and working poor are rising. How is the crisis affecting...

ILO to assist East Java develop a volcano theme park in Bromo-Semeru-Tengger National Park

The International Labour Organization (ILO) through its Job Opportunities for Youth (JOY) project is actively promoting local economic development (LED) as an alternative development approach. To do so, the ILO operates in two districts of East...

Statement at the Fifth UNWTO International Conference on Tourism Statistics - Tourism: an Engine for Employment Creation

By Mr Guy Thijs, Deputy Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Preventing harassment at the workplace

Tripartite officials representing government, employers and trade unions will meet at Salak Hotel, Bogor (23-25 March), to look at ways of promoting better workplace through preventing harassment in the workplace. Workplace safety and productivity...

Keynote speech at the Forum on Training Policies of Government and Industry to Address Employment Mismatch

By Ms Linda Wirth, Director, ILO SRO-Manila, Manila, Philippines

Global Employment Trends for Women

ILO warns economic crisis could generate up to 22 million more unemployed women in 2009, jeopardize equality gains at work and at home

The economic crisis is expected to increase the number of unemployed women by up to 22 million in 2009, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends for Women report (GET), adding that the global jobs crisis is...

ILO warns economic crisis could generate up to 22 million more unemployed women in 2009, jeopardize equality gains at work and at home

Global financial crisis

ILO delegates call for urgent new policy measures to address growing job losses in the financial sector

Worker, employer and government representatives called for urgent new policies and measures to mitigate the severe impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the more than 20 million financial sector workers worldwide and to stimulate a...

Global financial crisis

ILO meeting to discuss employment crunch in the financial sector

More than 100 senior representatives of governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, gather here on 24-25 February to discuss the impact of the economic crisis on the more than 20 million people employed in the financial sector worldwide.

Unemployment in Russia hits 6.1 mln

Speaking notes on the fallout in Asia: assessing labour market impacts and national policy responses to the global financial crisis

By Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific and Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization

ILO global employment trends report 2009 - unemployment, working poor, vulnerable employment to increase dramatically due to global...

The global economic crisis is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people joining the ranks of the unemployed, working poor and those in vulnerable employment, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global...

Global employment trends

Unemployment, working poor and vulnerable employment to increase dramatically due to global economic crisis

The global economic crisis is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people joining the ranks of the unemployed, working poor and those in vulnerable employment, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global...

Total number of Russia's unemployed goes up by 2% in October

Executive summary:World of Work Report 2008

Income inequalities have been growing significantly within countries over the past two decades or so. This new report from the International Institute for Labour Studies presents a timely assessment of this issue, based on new data and economic...

Mary Robinson, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent...

Heather Grady, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent...

Jordan Ryan, UN Resident Coordinator in Liberia. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to...

Samuel Kofi Woods, II, Minister of Labour. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to Development...

H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia. Speech to the 'High-Level Forum on "Working out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to...