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UN Secretary-General calls for accelerated action on jobs and social protection

Deeply diverging recoveries will undermine trust and solidarity and make the world more vulnerable to future crises, including climate change. New ‘Global Accelerator’ will create 400 million jobs and extend social protection coverage to 4 billion people currently left unprotected.

• UN Secretary-General’s Policy Brief: Investing in Jobs and Social Protection for Poverty Eradication and a Sustainable Recovery

WHO/ILO: Almost 2 million people die from work-related causes each year

The first WHO/ILO global estimates on disease and injury in the workplace outline the level of preventable premature deaths due to exposure to work-related health risks.

• Report: WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury, 2000–2016
• Visualization of country-level disease burden, with gender and age breakdowns

Entrepreneurship skills for Venezuelan migrants and refugees

Well over five million Venezuelans have become refugees and migrants in recent years, the majority of whom are living in neighbouring countries in Latin America. ILO Chief technical advisor, María Olave, explains how the ILO has provided entrepreneurship training to Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Ecuador and Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic.