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February 2022
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© Better Work 2022
Better Work programme
Helping Women Workers Manage Cultural and Professional Barriers in Pakistan
14 February 2022
Female labour force participation in urban Pakistan is among the lowest in the world. In a new training, home-based women workers learn financial literacy, and perhaps most importantly, self-advocacy.
January 2022
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© KB Mpofu / ILO 2022
WESO Trends 2022
ILO downgrades labour market recovery forecast for 2022
17 January 2022
The ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2022 report warns of a slow and uncertain recovery, as the pandemic continues to have a significant impact on global labour markets.
June 2021
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© Alex Proimos 2022
Domestic work – Convention C189
10 years on, domestic workers still fight for equality and decent work
15 June 2021
On the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Domestic Workers’ Convention, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed continued vulnerabilities of domestic workers in the labour market.
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© Rod Waddington 2022
World Day Against Child Labour
Child labour rises to 160 million – first increase in two decades
10 June 2021
The International Labour Organization and UNICEF warn nine million additional children at risk as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
November 2020
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2020 Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights – High-level Virtual Plenary
Remarks by ILO Director-General Guy Ryder
16 November 2020
March 2020
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© Chassenet / BSIP via AFP 2022
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
COVID-19: Social protection systems failing vulnerable groups
25 March 2020
Governments must use the momentum created by the COVID-19 pandemic to make rapid progress toward collectively financed, comprehensive, and permanent social-protection systems.
July 2016
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Beijing meeting
ILO Director-General calls for labour market policies supporting both demand and recovery
22 July 2016
At a meeting hosted by the Chinese Prime Minister with the heads of several international organizations, Guy Ryder highlighted the need to boost labour incomes and household consumption.
November 2014
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After Haiyan
The Philippines builds back better, greener, stronger
07 November 2014
Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013, in what was reportedly the country’s worst-ever natural disaster. More than 8,000 people lost their lives and over 14 million inhabitants, including 5.9 million workers, were affected. ILO emergency employment programmes were in place by December in the areas that were hardest hit. Special multimedia report from the Philippines a year after the storm.
March 2014
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Philippines
The daily struggle of a Haiyan widow
24 March 2014
Jobs are the top priority for many of those whose livelihoods were shattered by Super Typhoon Haiyan. The situation is particularly challenging for women who lost their husbands and became head of household overnight.