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February 2022
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Article
Digitally and financially empowered MSMEs in Uruguay – Lesson learnt from a successful collaboration with ANDE during the COVID-19 pandemic
25 February 2022
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the main sources of employment worldwide. However, access to adequate financial services is a key challenge to their development. The ILO believes that financial education is one path to support MSMEs. Our collaboration with ANDE aims to strengthen the financial knowledge and capacities of entrepreneurs in Uruguay.
June 2020
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Violence and harassment Convention
ILO Violence and Harassment Convention will enter into force in June 2021
25 June 2020
The ratification by Fiji, the second after Uruguay, will allow Convention No. 190 to enter into force in a year’s time.
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Violence and harassment Convention
Uruguay first to ratify ILO Violence and Harassment Convention
12 June 2020
ILO’s landmark Convention No. 190, on violence and harassment in the work environment, has received its first ratification, taking it a step closer to entering into force.
March 2020
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Convention 190
More action needed to end violence and harassment in the world of work
06 March 2020
The ILO calls on all countries to ratify ILO Convention 190 to end violence and harassment in the world of work once and for all.
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Violence and harassment
ILO welcomes commitments to ratify Convention on violence and harassment
03 March 2020
Argentina, Finland, Spain and Uruguay have all formally committed to ratify the ILO’s Convention that provides an international framework to end violence and harassment in the world of work.
February 2020
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Blog
It’s possible to break the working poverty vicious circle
28 February 2020
Put yourselves in the shoes of a vulnerable worker: You have a job but you struggle to make ends meet. You want to improve your skills so you can get a better job but it’s impossible because you are too busy working. How can you break this working poverty vicious circle?
March 2019
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Blog
Youth in the Global South must join forces for their future of work
15 March 2019
Countries from the Global South should work together to surf on the wave of technological revolution says youth innovator, Maria Victoria Alonsoperez.
May 2016
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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.
June 2012
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News
One year on, Uruguay is first to ratify ILO domestic work Convention
14 June 2012
Uruguay becomes the first to ratify the ILO’s standard-setting Convention on Domestic Workers. The international treaty aims to improve the lives of domestic workers worldwide in the face of huge decent work deficits.
May 2012
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Video News Release
Jobs recovery threatened by fiscal austerity
01 May 2012
The world needs to create 50 million jobs to return to pre-crisis employment levels, according to the ILO's World of Work 2012 report, but fiscal austerity and tough labour market reforms threaten the scenario for a true jobs recovery.