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	 <title>Safety matters: More to life after Haiyan</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2018 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2018 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>Safe and equal opportunities without dangerous shortcuts</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>Farm safety: A new beginning</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>Achievements of Filipino youth at the 21st World Congress on Safety and Health at Work</title>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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	 <title>Building peace through economic development in the southern Philippines</title>
	 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>The rural economy: An untapped source of jobs, growth and development</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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	 <title>Job skills build peace in the Philippines</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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	 <title>The way back to school</title>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>Peace, prosperity and papayas</title>
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	 <title>Skills for a brighter future</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
 	 <description><![CDATA[Refugees in a camp along Thai-Myanmar border are equipped with livelihood and buisness skills for a  better future.]]></description>
	
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	 <title>No one should work this way – ending the abuse of Asian domestic workers</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
 	 <description><![CDATA[There are more than 52 million domestic workers worldwide but the vast majority are unprotected by labour laws. This leaves them open to – sometimes terrible – abuse and exploitation. The journalist Karen Emmons worked with the photographer Steve McCurry on a documentary project to record and expose some of the treatment experienced by Asian migrant domestic workers.]]></description>
	
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	 <title>Dancing together against child labour</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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	 <title>Young Indonesian entrepreneur goes green</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>The road to entrepreneurship</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 1 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>Next govt faces ‘jobless growth’ </title>
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	 <title>Inspiring students through the ILO’s new KAB Start Up and Go Modules</title>
	 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>Why breastfeeding is a truck driver’s issue</title>
	 <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	 <title>Empowering women homeworkers for better working conditions</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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