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Global Employment Trends 2013

Global unemployment rising again but with significant differences across regions

Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, labour markets remain deeply depressed. Unemployment has started to rise again as the economic outlook worsens.

Global Employment Trends 2013: Global unemployment rising again but with significant differences across regions

Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, labour markets remain deeply depressed. Unemployment has started to rise again as the economic outlook worsens.

Youth employment

ILO Chief: Less austerity, more investment needed to tackle youth jobs crisis

Failing to act on the youth jobs crisis would sow the seeds of social unrest and destroy hopes for sustainable growth. That is a cost the world cannot afford, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said at a conference on youth employment in Budapest.

Youth jobs crisis

Statement by the ILO's Director-General at the Tripartite Seminar on Youth Employment

Statement by Guy Ryder at the Tripartite Seminar on Youth Employment in Europe organized by Hungarian Ministry for National Economy and the ILO, to examine the challenges of labour market integration of young people in Europe. (Check against...

Zimbabwe

The ILO hands over equipment to the Ministry responsible for Youth empowerment in Zimbabwe

The Danida funded project on Skills for Youth Employment and Rural Development is being implemented in 9 provinces of the country and is yielding positive results to the disadvantaged and vulnerable young women and men in the rural and semi-urban...

Germany contributes €650,000 to the Youth Employment Network

Contribution will fund a round of the Youth to Youth Fund in Togo for the period 2013-2014

Partnership agreements

ILO, Russian Federation sign key agreements

The ILO and the Russian Federation have launched a new and strategic era of cooperation with the signing of three key agreements.

ECOWAS Ministers call for new actions on Youth Employment and Child Labour

The ECOWAS Ministers of Labour, Employment and Social Affairs adopted – 7th December 2012 in Dakar, Senegal - new Actions Plan on Youth Employment and for the elimination of Child labour in the West African Sub-region.

ILO launches global photo contest “WORK4YOUTH”

The ILO Youth Employment Programme is organizing a photo contest to shed light on youth employment issues, the challenges young people face in the workplace as well as their power to overcome them. The contest “WORK4YOUTH” is sponsored by The...

University of the South Pacific and the ILO pilot Community Based Enterprise Development Programme

The Aspiring Entrepreneurs component of the Community Based Enterprise Development (C-BED) was piloted at the Regional Centre for Continued Community Education (RCCCE) of USP.

What Does the World of Work for 1.2 billion Youth Look Like? Global Labour Markets and Youth Employment: A Vision for the Future

Lecture by Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, ILO, at the Public Seminar at World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Centre

Minister of Labour, Mr Jone Usamate's opening statement at the Fiji National Employment Creation Policy workshop

28th November 2012 the Fiji Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment and the ILO jointly hosted a three day technical training workshop for senior Government officials, employers workers and academia to explore not only the technical...

Papua New Guinea moves to establishing a National Employment Policy

The Papua New Guinea Government has prioritized the development of a new National Employment Policy to implement ILO Convention 122.

Fiji National Employment Creation Policy workshop

In November 2012 the Fiji Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment and the ILO jointly hosted a three day technical training workshop for senior Government officials, employers workers and academia to explore not only the technical...

Young rural people need employment supports

Young rural people, who are often left behind in education and training, need supports to get access to quality jobs. A forum organized by the International Labour Organization in the northern province of Phu Tho on 26 November listens to the voice...

Women entrepreneurs in Fiji get a boost!

The Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation (FCEF) with the support of the ILO, organized two trainings in November for fifty women entrepreneurs in Fiji.

The real battle is here, at home

By Ms Joanna Bernice Coronacion, Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) at the Year-end reception on youth employment “Ugnayan para sa kabataan: An appreciation and recognition night”, Makati City, Philippines, 21 November 2012

Opening address at the Year-end reception on youth employment “Ugnayan para sa kabataan: An appreciation and recognition night”

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the Year-end reception on youth employment “Ugnayan para sa kabataan: An appreciation and recognition night”, Makati City, Philippines, 21 November 2012

Continued South South Cooperation Fiji - Kiribati

The ILO through its Youth Employment Programme in Kiribati brokered an initiative with both countries that would support Kiribati in establishing a National Employment Service Centre (NESC). With Fiji already having an operation National Employment...

Denmark and ILO team up to advance youth employment in Egypt

Denmark donates US$1.6 million to finance the first phase of two youth employment projects in Egypt.