News
December 2003
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In Afghanistan, paving the way to a brighter future
15 December 2003
After more than two decades of war, road- and bridge-building has become an essential part of Afghanistan's reconstruction. The ILO Crisis Response and Reconstruction Programme is using labour-based methods to fix not only the streets in Kabul, but also pave the way to long-term job creation and decent work.
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Press release
Regional meeting concludes with pledge to strengthen ILO role in African development "Decent Work for Africa's Development"
05 December 2003
Xth African Regional Meeting concluded today with a broad set of recommendations on putting employment at the centre of Africa's development strategies and strengthening the organization's role in poverty reduction on the continent.
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Press release
ILO delegates lay groundwork for African summit on poverty and employment
03 December 2003
Xth African Regional Meeting.
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Press release
Xth African Regional Meeting Opens with Calls for Changes in International Policies on Poverty Alleviation
02 December 2003
centred approach to alleviating the continent's chronic poverty, and international policies must change to recognize this. That was the message heard by delegates to the International Labour Organization's Xth African Regional Meeting at its opening session this morning in the Ethiopian capital.
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Press release
Xth ILO African Regional Meeting - Addis Ababa, 2-5 December Africa meeting opens: Decent work for Africa's development
01 December 2003
With the challenges of reducing poverty and promoting job-centered development topping their agenda, African labour ministers and representatives of workers' and employers' organizations will open the International Labour Organization's Xth African Regional Meeting tomorrow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
November 2003
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Xth African Regional Meeting. Gender and poverty: Planting the "SEEDs" of change
26 November 2003
Many women in Africa are inordinately affected by poverty. But there are success stories. This article explains how the ILO Programme on Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development (IFP/SEED), and its team working on Women's Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE), can help plant the seeds of change for Africa's women workers.
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Xth African Regional Meeting. Youth Employment: A leap to the future
25 November 2003
More than half of Africa's population is under 18 and is hard hit by unemployment. What's more, only 5 to 10 per cent of new entrants into the job market can be absorbed by the formal economy. This article explains how a new Youth Employment Network" ("YEN") – grouping the ILO, the World Bank and the United Nations – is working to help young people find more and better jobs on the continent.
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Xth African Regional Meeting. Social security in Africa: A universal need
21 November 2003
The majority of Africa's workers today have no social security coverage – and the systems which do exist are threatened by such phenomena as weakness of governance and the impact of HIV/AIDS. This article explains new approaches which are being taken to remedy this, as part of the new ILO Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All, launched this past June at the International Labour Conference.
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Press release
ILO Governing Body concludes 288th session
21 November 2003
Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) concluded its 288th session today following two weeks of discussion over issues ranging from the social dimension of globalization to a new code of practice on workplace violence in the services sector and labour rights in Belarus, Myanmar and other countries.
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ILO Governing Body establishes Commission of Inquiry to examine violations of trade union rights in Belarus Latest report of ILO Committee on Freedom of Association cites Belarus, Cuba, Zimbabwe, others
20 November 2003
Constitution against the government of Belarus for non-observance of the fundamental freedom of association Conventions Nos. 87 and 98, the Governing Body decided to establish a special Commission of Inquiry to examine violations of trade union rights in the country.