Issues: December 2008

Among the topics covered in this edition are the findings of a new report on Labour and Social Trends in ASEAN, the ILO's global gender campaign, women's pay in Bangladesh, workplace practices to combat avian and pandemic human influenza, strategies for extending social security coverage, human trafficking for labour exploitation, and migration policies.

In this issue: ILO global gender campaign, preventing avian and pandemic human influenza, Labour and Social Trends in ASEAN 2008, Bangladeshi women's lower wages, strategies to extend socal security coverage, preventing human trafficking tradeoffs in migration policy