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Changing the way people see disABILITY

Persons with disabilities often face lack of work opportunities or low wages compared to non-disabled persons. ILO estimates that people with disabilities represent 10 per cent of the world’s population, or some 650 million people worldwide. ...

Crisis response in Africa

First African Decent Work Symposium hears calls to invest in employment and sustainable enterprises

The First African Decent Work Symposium “Recovering from the crisis: the implementation of the Global Jobs Pact in Africa” opened in Ouagadougou on 1 December with three heads of state and ministers of labour and finance and representatives of...

Developing strategies for local employment recovery in Asia

To tackle the prospect of a prolonged global increase in unemployment, poverty and inequality and the continuing collapse of enterprises, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Organization for Economic Cooperation...

Declaration:Acting together for the ILO Global Jobs Pact

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...

ILO and Cambodia agree on a Decent Work Cooperation Framework: three year plan of action to assist Cambodian Government, employers and...

The International Labour Office (ILO) and the Kingdom of Cambodia have agreed today to a three-year cooperation framework and plan of action that will help the country recover from the economic and social crisis facing the region and build a...

Collective bargaining

Negotiating for social justice: Collective bargaining in times of crisis

This year marks the 60th anniversary of ILO Convention No. 98 on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining. While much has changed since the Convention was adopted in 1949, collective bargaining remains a fundamental right, an important tool...

Czech student wins international letter writing contest on decent work

More than 2 million children from some 60 countries took part in the 2009 international letter writing competition for young people organized by the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The theme chosen for this year was “Decent Work”, a notion at the...

Sub-Regional Workshop on Negotiating Decent Work in the Age of Globalization in South Asia and China Ahungalla Sri Lanka 26-27 October 2009

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

International cooperation

Somalia: addressing the root causes of piracy and warlordism

Faced with a dramatic increase in piracy off the Horn of Africa, countries have stepped up their efforts to protect shipping in the region. However, attention is now turning more to the question of why people turn to piracy to make a living and what...

Decent work and globalization

Informal employment curbs trade benefits for developing countries

A joint study from the International Labour Organization and the WTO has found that high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries' ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in...

G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh

G20 Commit to Putting Quality Jobs at the Heart of the Recovery

Leaders of the G20 have welcomed the ILO Global Jobs Pact and the building of “an employment-oriented framework for future economic growth”. ILO Director-General Juan Somavia, who was invited to present a report on policies and prospects for jobs...

Tripartite meeting on Labour Administration Facing the Jobs Crisis

ILO communication to the G20

Despite continued rise in unemployment, measures taken by G20 governments will save up to 11 million jobs in 2009

Employment and social protection measures taken by G20 governments since the economic crisis began will have created or saved an estimated 7 to 11 million jobs in the G20 countries this year, the Director-General of the International Labour Office...

Opening remarks at the National Tripartite Consultation on Decent Work for Domestic Workers

By Ms Sutassanee Suebwongpat, Inspector-General, Ministry of Labour, Royal Thai Government

Welcome remarks at the Workshop on Promoting Decent Work for Women and Men with Disabilities-INCLUDE: Subregional Disability Equality...

By Mr Bill Salter, Director, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia

Publication

Social protection for all: From large-scale poverty to decent societies

The global recession has increased unemployment and poverty across the world. A new publication "Building decent societies", edited by Peter Townsend, makes the case for the development of comprehensive social security systems in all countries,...

Power for the powerless; the woman behind India's ‘Gentle Revolution’

The year 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the ILO’s gender equality action plan, and the end of a year-long global ILO campaign on gender equality and the world of work. One of the themes of the campaign was “Social dialogue at work: voices and...

Mr Jesus Villamor, Vice-President of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines

Global Jobs Pact and ILO Support to Member States in the Asia-Pacific Region in Response to the Crisis

By Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific at the Technical Consultation on the “Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Employment and Labour Market of Bangladesh”, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 August 2009