News on forced labour
November 2020
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Remarks by ILO Director-General Guy Ryder
16 November 2020
June 2020
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© Issouf Sanogo / AFP 2022
COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF
12 June 2020
Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat.
May 2015
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© ILO/Nadia Bseiso 2022
Informally employed Syrian refugees, working under harsh conditions, further strain Jordanian labour market
18 May 2015
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in neighbouring Jordan has increased unemployment in areas in which they are highly concentrated, and further strained the host country’s infrastructure, resources and public services. This has increased competition in some sectors and added to the informality of the labour market, a new joint report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Institute for Applied International Studies (Fafo) finds.
