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National child labour survey

Belize - National Child Activity Survey 2013

This survey is intended to provide updated information on working children, child labour, and hazardous work performed by children in Belize, as desired by the National Steering Committee on Child Labour set up by the Ministry of Labour, Government...

Belize - National Child Activity Survey 2013 - Key facts and figures

27 million Latin American and Caribbean youth in the informal economy

The International Labour Organization (ILO) calls for urgent action to help youth in the region move from the informal to the formal economy.

Promoting formal employment among youth: innovative experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Formalizing employment, particularly youth employment, continues to pose a challenge for the countries of the region. Currently, 13% of youth are unemployed and 55.7% are informally employed (ILO 2013 and ILO 2014). The challenge of enabling the...

Summit of the Americas

Ryder: 'Economic slowdown in Latin America and the Caribbean is affecting employment'

The ILO Director-General is in Panama where he is scheduled to attend the Seventh Summit of the Americas (10-11). He met leading workers’ and employers’ representatives from the region, as well as Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela.

Youth Informality: Formalizing the informal youth - Innovative experiences in Jamaica

The Jamaican economy is characterised by persistent stagnation with an annual growth rate of 0.53% over the period 1999-2014. The economic crisis of 2008 saw the collapse of the bauxite and alumina, declines in remittances and stagnation in the...

ILO opens Ninth Meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers in The Bahamas

ILO is strongly committed to convening the Caribbean Ministers of Labour Meeting every two years, to listen to the constituents and to respond to their needs with practical solutions, says ILO Director-General.

Decent Work Country Programme - Suriname 2014-2016

Suriname has signed the Decent Work Country Programme 2014-2016 with tripartite constituents and other stakeholders

Labour Overview for Latin America and the Caribbean 2014

Unemployment continued to fall in Latin America and the Caribbean but will rise from 2015

The ILO’s Latin American Labour Overview 2014 (Panorama Laboral) shows that the economic downturn has begun to impact the regional labour market.

Thematic Labour Overview 1: Transition to Formality in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Informality is a large-scale situation with multiple causes; at the same time it is highly heterogeneous, and is characterized by an acute shortage of decent work. Most people who work in the informal economy are exposed to inadequate and insecure...

ECLAC / ILO Report

The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean 2014

Strong job creation and wage gains have proved to be a key factors in reducing poverty —quite substantially— in our region over the past decade. Growth is projected to be more modest still in 2014. The fact that investment has stagnated or is even...

ECLAC / ILO Report

Unemployment could fall to 6.0% in Latin America and the Caribbean despite limited job creation

ECLAC-ILO study says employment formalization has contributed to a reduction in income inequality.

18th American Regional Meeting

Latin America and the Caribbean redouble efforts against child labour

New regional initiative to tackle child labour agreed by Latin American and Caribbean countries at the 18th ILO American Regional Meeting in Lima.

News

Combating the worst forms of child labour - A project of the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and the Government of Canada

Promotional materials

Combating the worst forms of child labour - A project of the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and the Government of Canada

Project Overview

Combating the worst forms of child labour - A project of the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and the Government of Canada

Pilot programmes

Combating the worst forms of child labour - A project of the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and the Government of Canada

National child labour committees

Combating the worst forms of child labour - A project of the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and the Government of Canada

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Combating the worst forms of child labour - A project of the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and the Government of Canada

Legislative Review for the 13 Caribbean Member States of the ILO