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Opening address at the Succeeding in Business Programme Training of Trainers and Enterprises

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Sta Rosa Laguna, Philippines

Opening address at the Roundtable Discussion and Project Committee Meeting on Green Jobs Initiative

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines

Youth join green jobs push in China

Yang Shumbo, a Chinese electronic sciences student invented a device to save electricity. He developed this into a business under a pilot project of the Greener Business Option (GBO), an ILO Green Jobs Programme initiative. GBO aims to encourage...

The ILO MNEs Declaration: Interview with Anna Biondi

The Bureau for workers’ activities (ACTRAV) has published a guide on the ILO Declaration on Multinational Enterprises for workers. At this occasion, the Deputy Director of ACTRAV, Anna Biondi gave somes explanations...

National Green Jobs Conference

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministries of Labour and Labour Relations and Productivity Promotion, is organizing a two-day National Conference on Green Jobs from 24-25 January 2011.

ILO – Ministry of Manpower examine workplace cooperation in small and medium enterprises to boost productivity and competitiveness

Being more vulnerable to external shocks, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia have been finding it difficult to sustain operations due to the global crisis. To further assist SMEs to be more productive, competitive and sustainable,...

Indonesia to participate in the ILO’s Green Jobs Project in Asia

Climate change is an issue of high priority for Indonesia. Like many other countries in Asia and the Pacific, Indonesia has also voluntarily committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions or carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 2020. Indonesia is...

First edition of ILO Social and Solidarity Economy Academy

Asia Pacific Regional Workshop Entrepreneurship Education: “Improve quality and impact of youth entrepreneurship training”

Latest ILO data indicates that 190.2 million people were unemployed across the globe in 2008, of which 75.9 million were aged between 15 and 24.

Youth employment in Liberia

Promoting job creation for young people in multinational enterprises

Liberia’s 14 year war left gaping holes in the infrastructure critical to investment and recovery and delayed a generation of youth from entering the labour market. Today, almost two-thirds of the population live in poverty. Youth between ages of 15...

ILO Forum on Green Jobs for a Better Life, Shanghai World EXPO

The International Labour Organization (ILO), together with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) and China Enterprises Confederation (CEC), organized a Forum on Green Jobs for a...

ILO supports Guyana's greening of the economy in the framework of its Low-Carbon Development Strategy

A three-day Workshop on Green Jobs as they relate to Guyana's LCDS highlighted the ILO's Green Jobs Initiative and focused on the concept of green jobs and employment opportunities in Guyana

President of Switzerland to launch new project helping SME ’s become more competitive, sustainable and responsible

JAKARTA (ILO NEWS) - The President of the Swiss Confederation, H.E. Mdm. Doris Leuthard will attend the signing ceremony of the Joint Commitment on Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) in Jakarta, on Tuesday 6 July, 2010.

ILO pays courtesy visit to Minister of Labour

Sustainable enterprises

Cooperatives and the crisis: “Our customers are also our owners”

Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. Report from Sweden.

Statement by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office, On the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives - 3...

National Conference on Green Jobs, New Delhi, 24 - 25 June 2010

Government agencies, ILO social partners and other stake holders come together to discuss emerging trends and issues relating to the creation of new environment friendly employment opportunities and the transformation of existing occupations in the...

First National Conference on Green Jobs, New Delhi, 24 - 25 June 2010

The conference discusses emerging trends and issues relating to the creation of new environment friendly employment opportunities and the transformation of existing occupations in the shift towards greener economies.

A policy framework for better managing business and human rights challenges

One of the main goals of the UN Framework "Protect, Respect and Remedy" is to identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for business enterprises with regard to human rights. Professor John Ruggie, Special...

Opening remarks at Green Jobs Experience Sharing and Policy Consultation Meeting

By Ms Ann Herbert, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia