The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development: Latest news
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Event
31st International Symposium on Labour Issues
4 October 2018
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Slideshow
Exhibition “Making Decent Work a reality on the world stage”
02 November 2017
The ILO is hosting a new exhibition which cuts across the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), showing the world of work as it is. A world of challenges, progress and hope.
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© J.C. Huayllapuma / CIFOR 2019
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous women’s voice and empowerment more important than ever to ensure a better future of work for all
08 August 2017
Ten years since the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted, the international community renews its commitment to promote the empowerment and voice of indigenous women.
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Press release
ILO and Russian Federation discuss second phase of the project “Applying the G20 Training Strategy”
06 July 2017
ILO officials and senior representatives of the Ministries of Education and Science, Finance, Labour and Social Protection, Foreign Affairs, Employers and Workers’ organizations and other key stakeholders involved in Skills Development met in Moscow to discuss the second phase of the Project, which represents a continued response of the Russian Federation and the ILO to support the application of the G20 Training Strategy.
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© Pradip Shakya / ILO 2019
Round table
Making trade more inclusive
28 February 2017
Didier REYNDERS, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto AZEVÊDO, Director-General of the WTO, and Guy RYDER, Director-General of the ILO, discussed ways to make trade more inclusive, including labour provisions in trade agreements. Guy Ryder underlined ILO's standpoint in his keynote address.
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© IEMS HKUST 2019
Skills for the future
ILO, Russia renew cooperation on skills and G20 Training Strategy
18 January 2017
The project will strengthen regional and global knowledge-sharing on skills development as an effective means to support productivity, competitiveness and growth.
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The Future of Work
'Social dialogue is vital to meeting the challenge of the future of work'
13 October 2016
ILO Director-General addresses a meeting on the future of work between the Italian government and employers' and workers' organizations at the country's parliament in Rome.
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Joint statement
Employment Programmes and Peace: A joint statement on an analytical framework, emerging principles for action and next steps
26 September 2016
Joint statement presented by the ILO, PBSO, UNDP and the World Bank at a side event during the opening of the 71st session of the General Assembly.
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Jobs for peace
ILO, PBSO, UNDP and the World Bank present joint statement to strengthen peacebuilding impact of employment programmes
26 September 2016
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Slideshow
Progress on Sustainable Development Goals will depend on promotion of sustainable rural livelihoods
26 September 2016
Over 80 per cent of the poor in developing and emerging countries live in rural areas and nearly two-thirds of the working extreme poor are employed in agriculture.