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Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 Cooperative contributions to SDG 12

This brief is part of the Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 series produced by the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC). Through a series of 17 briefs, one for each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), COPAC...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Interview with Rudi Dalvai, President, World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO)

"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, ILO interviewed Rudi Dalvai,...

ILO organizes a meeting on cooperative to cooperative trade and decent work

ILO brings together the cooperative movement and fairer and ethical trade initiatives to promote responsible production and consumption though cooperative to cooperative trade.

Concept note: Meeting on enhancing cooperative trade for decent work

ILO facilitates a visit by Japanese Consumers’ Cooperative Union (JCCU) to an Italian social cooperative

The visit by JCCU to Cadore Social Cooperative Society in Pieve di Cadore, Italy aimed to draw on its experience in local community development.

Informal EPSCO meeting discusses youth and skills

Heinz Koller, Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, addressed the Informal Meeting of the Ministers of the EU responsible for Employment and Social Affairs (EPSCO).

A step taken toward a common social cooperative framework in Turkey

ILO representative joined a conference toward creating a common legal and institutional framework for emerging social cooperatives in Turkey.

A cooperative 2030 series

Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 5

This brief is part of the Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 series produced by the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC). Through a series of 17 briefs, one for each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), COPAC...

ILO joins the conversation on women’s empowerment through cooperatives, an Italian perspective

ILO COOP Unit Manager participated in the event on “WomeNpowerment in Coops: Italian cooperatives contributing to the achievement of gender equality in the world” organized on the occasion of the International Women’s Day by the Commission of Women...

International Women’s Day

ILO: Women still less likely to be active in the labour market than men in most of the world

Despite notable progress over the past 20 years, updated ILO figures show persistent inequalities between women and men on access to the labour market, unemployment and conditions at work.

ILO's presentation at the Unicoop Florence Annual Convention focuses on the role of social and solidarity economy in the future of work

A cooperative 2030 series

Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 1

This brief is part of the Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 series produced by the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC). Through a series of 17 briefs, one for each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), COPAC...

Complementarities between labour market institutions and their causal impact on youth labour market outcomes

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 224

Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017 [Executive summary]

The 2017 edition of the series Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on key youth labour market indicators, trends and policies, focusing both on continuing labour market instability and on structural issues faced by young people...

“Festival Meetings 2017” concert series raising awareness about child labour

In support of the Music Against Child Labour Initiative, Milano Classica, in collaboration with the Milan network of middle schools specialising in music (SMIM), organised the third edition of the “Festival Meetings.” 12 concerts involving over 20...

G7 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Declaration refers to cooperatives

Public policies for social and solidarity economy: Assessing progress in seven countries

This particular study is a comparative analysis of seven ILO case studies. In the first part, an overview of the public policies for social and solidarity economy in Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, the Philippines, South Africa, the Republic of Korea...

Labour Migration From China to Europe: Scope and Potential

The research presented in this report was conducted under the “EU-China Dialogue on Migration and Mobility Support Project”, funded by the EU and jointly carried out by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization...

Social and Solidarity Economy and the Future of Work

This publication presents the main theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on the features and role of social and solidarity economy (SSE) organizations, specifically on its potential to create and preserve decent work. The publication also...

In brief

Decent work, the key to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

Decent work puts money in the pockets of individuals and families that they can spend in the local economy. Their purchasing power fuels the growth and development of sustainable enterprises, especially smaller businesses, which in turn are able to...