All ILO Newsroom content
July 2019
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Video
SDG 6 - Water and Sanitation
18 July 2019
Carlos Carrión Crespo, Utilities Sector Specialist at the ILO Sectoral Policies Department, talks about water issues in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and suggests ways to address them.
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Blog
The future of work – The time for talking is over
16 July 2019
All around, I am hearing calls for change. This was the message that came through loud and clear at the recent Centenary International Labour Conference, when delegates enthusiastically adopted the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work.
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© SEWA 2019
Blog
How social cooperatives help informal workers
16 July 2019
Does organizing informal workers into their own cooperatives help them? Most certainly. Let me tell you about two poor salt-pan workers from the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK), Gujarat, India.
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ILO Centenary
International Labour Organization Rings the Nasdaq Closing Bell
11 July 2019
To commemorate the ILO Centenary in 2019, Moussa Oumarou, ILO's Deputy Director-General for Field Operations & Partnerships, Peter Robinson, President and CEO of United States Council for International Business and Mamadou Diallo, Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation together rang the Nasdaq closing bell on 11 July 2019.
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Women refugees
Success is sweet for “Determined Women” from Jordan and Syria
11 July 2019
A group of Syrian and Jordanian women who received ILO support to set up a joint business venture producing and selling sweets and other foods, have found success.
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6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference
Meet the winner of the 2019 Regulating for Decent Work Prize
10 July 2019
On the last day of the Regulating for Decent Work Conference, we met Hanh Nguyen, this year's winner of the prestigious research prize, in addition to ILO Director-General Guy Ryder and MIT professor Nicholas Ashford.
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6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference
Mariana Mazzucato shares her thoughts from #RDW2019
08 July 2019
At the 6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference, we caught up with author and economist Mariana Mazzucato as well as ILO Deputy DG Deborah Greenfield and Durham University professor Deirdre McCann.
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International Day of Cooperatives
Message from ILO's Director-General Guy Ryder for International Cooperative Day 2019
05 July 2019
The 2019 International Day of Cooperatives will be celebrated on Saturday 6 July. This year, in commemoration of the ILO’s centenary, the theme is "cooperatives for decent work" which is closely linked to SDG8. On this occasion ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has issued a video message.
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Video
International Labour Conference Centenary Session as it happened
05 July 2019
The Centenary Conference of the International Labour Organization was attended by over 6000 delegates, representing Governments, workers and employers from around the world, including world leaders celebrating 100 years of the ILO. It ended with the adoption of a groundbreaking Convention to combat violence and harassment in the world of work, as well as a Declaration charting the way towards a human-centred future of work.
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© Robert Scoble 2019
Labour Income Share and Distribution
Just 10 per cent of workers receive nearly half of global pay
04 July 2019
An ILO assessment gives the first global estimates of the distribution of labour income, and shows that pay inequality remains pervasive in the world of work. The findings are drawn from a new database which includes national, regional and global data.