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April 2022

  1. ILO in action

    We promote responsible business conduct in Latin America and the Carribean

    04 April 2022

    ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Olga Orozco, speaks from Peru about the Responsible Business Conduct project in Latin America and the Caribbean (RBCLAC), which aims to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the EU and in Latin America and the Caribbean. Funded by the European Union and implemented in collaboration with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Office of the High Commissioner of The United Nations for Human Rights (OHCHR), the project will run until the end of 2022.

August 2020

  1. COVID-19: Pandemic in the World of Work

    Monique Flor’s message on child labour

    26 August 2020

    As a child, Monique was sexually, physically and psychologically exploited. Today, she is a survivor. Listen to her appeal for the elimination of child labour.

July 2020

  1. International Day of Cooperatives

    How cooperatives can help Brazil’s waste pickers build back from COVID-19

    03 July 2020

    This year’s International Day of Cooperatives on 4 July will focus on climate action. Waste pickers’ cooperatives in Brazil are examples of how cooperatives can help combat climate change, while facing the challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic.

August 2018

  1. BRICS Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

    Make social dialogue work

    02 August 2018

    ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, praises the commitment to social dialogue and tripartism made by BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - in a speech at the group’s Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting in South Africa.

February 2018

  1. Forced labour

    Hundreds of Brazilian workers rescued at least twice from slavery in past 15 years

    06 February 2018

    The Digital Observatory of Slave Labour in Brazil, a joint project by the ILO and the Federal Labour Prosecution Office, has issued new data on slave labour in the country.

November 2017

  1. Decent work

    How decent work can transform cotton production

    03 November 2017

    South-South Project uses good practices in Brazil to promote decent work in cotton production in African and Latin American countries.

July 2017

  1. BRICS Ministerial Meeting

    ILO Director-General address to the BRICS on "Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future"

    26 July 2017

    “It is after all a fundamental desire of people across the world, above all in this period of transformative change and sometimes of uncertainty, that they can look forward and contribute to a better future of work – one with social justice and prosperity and decent work for all,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder to the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting.

September 2016

  1. BRICS Ministerial Meeting

    ILO Director-General’s intervention at the closing session of the BRICS Ministerial Meeting

    28 September 2016

May 2016

  1. © R. Golinelli / Bioversity Int. 2022

    Jobs in Latin America

    Latin American and Caribbean unemployment to rise in 2016

    11 May 2016

    The evolution of labour markets in the region will be analyzed at ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, to be held in Mexico this month.

October 2013

  1. Third Global Conference on Child Labour

    Fighting child labour cannot be a temporary effort

    10 October 2013

    As the three-day Global Conference on Child Labour came to a close in Brasilia, former child labourers, the ILO Director-General and former President of Brazil Luis Inácio Lula da Silva all stressed the need to continue the fight against child labour.