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ILO calls for additional job creation policies in G20 countries

ILO Director-General says that "more can be done" to achieve high employment levels and growth.

Cooperation against trafficking

Major new initiative to protect women and girls from modern-day slavery

ILO and DFID team up to combat the trafficking of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East.

Skills and competitiveness

Ryder calls for strengthening skills development to bridge the gap between the worlds of education and work

ILO and WTO stress their shared goal to realize the potential of trade opening for employment and for productive and decent work for more people.

G20 Labour Ministerial in Moscow

ILO and OECD to publish G20 labour market update

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will publish updated G20 labour market data on 17 July ahead of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting in Moscow.

Restoring economic growth and reducing unemployment are the main pillars of Russia’s G20 Presidency

The global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 and the budget situation in some of the EU countries have shown that the problems of the global economic governance are becoming one of the major challenges of the moment, Deputy Finance Minister...

Bangladesh

Solar home systems: Lighting the way to a greener world of work in Bangladesh

While the national grid reaches many areas of Bangladesh, most of the country’s 142 million inhabitants live in rural areas and 70 per cent of them are not connected. Most rely on kerosene fuelled lamps for lighting and petrol or diesel-fired...

ILO steps up cooperation in youth employment with Azerbaijan

On May 30 Azerbaijan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alekperov met with ILO Moscow Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva to discuss the implementation of ILO’s new project Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of...

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of...

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Georgia (GTUC) took place on the 29th of May in Tbilisi. It coincided with the first day of the work of the...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sharing knowledge in combating child labour

Within the framework of activities carried out by the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) in Central Asia two study tours were organized for tripartite partners in the region to learn experience of combating...

Unions call for employment and decent work in the post-2015 Development Agenda

UN Secretary-General visits Russia

On May 16-19 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Russia. Soon after his arrival in Moscow he left for the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where on the next day he held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister...

Migrating safely to the Republic of Korea

Sakulta Kaewdang, a young Thai mother, is working happily in a small apparel factory in the Republic of Korea. A bilateral recruitment programme called the Employment Permit System has allowed her and thousands of other migrant workers from...

Wallonie-Bruxelles International and ITCILO cooperation for biennium 2014-2015

Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) and the International Training Centre of the ILO have signed a collaborative work program for the biennium 2014-2015 at a meeting of the Joint Commission ITCILO-WBI on 23 April 2013.

United Nations System Private Sector Focal Points Meeting 2013: Strengthening Partnership Synergies for Local Impact

Co-hosted by the International Labour Organization, Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, United Nations Global Compact Office, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United...

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Fighting a slow and invisible killer

Rock quarries are among the most dangerous workplaces in Viet Nam. The International Labour Organization (ILO) is helping enhance self-inspection and training on occupational safety and health (OSH) to try to make work in the quarries healthier and...

Kazakhstan to join OIC labor ministers at Baku conference

Kazakhstan is to participate in the 2nd Conference of Labor Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation member countries in Baku on 24 April.

Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

Ryder warns that prospects for jobs recovery are receding

In a statement to the IMFC in Washington, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder says international policy response efforts are not matching growing global concern over growth, job creation and poverty reduction.

Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

Putting jobs at the centre of recovery and sustainable development

Statement by the ILO's Director-General, Guy Ryder, to the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Development Committee.

Remarks at launch event of the European Business Campaign: “Skills for Jobs”

by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, ILO at the session on “Reaching impact and scaling up”

9th European Regional Meeting

Strong EU and Benelux participation in European regional meeting (ERM)

The EU actively participated in the ERM through EU positions presented by the Irish Council Presidency and through the negotiation of the Oslo Declaration.