News, articles and events on youth employment

Gender-responsive employment policies for a job-rich and fair recovery

A new generation of gender-responsive employment policies can play an important role to promote an inclusive and job-rich recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This webinar will bring together experts and policymakers from different regions to share knowledge on how they have produced specific diagnostics on how women and men have been impacted by the crisis, and the ways in which they have progressed in implementing gender-responsive policies.

ILO launches new online database on employment policies and strategies to promote an inclusive job-rich recovery

19 October 2021

The online platform will serve as a unique worldwide reference and source of information on national employment policies, and strategies to promote youth employment.
Two-track recovery undermines trust and solidarity

14 October 2021

In a statement to the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder said countries must increase investments in social protection, decent work and a just transition.

COVID-19 recovery must be human-centred

09 April 2021

To be effective, we need a global response that is addresses poverty and inequalities, promotes social dialogue, strengthens the institutions of work and supports social justice, the ILO’s Director-General said.
We need a just transition and a green recovery from COVID-19

08 April 2021

To be effective, pandemic recovery strategies must be as human-centred in their impact as the effects of the crisis itself have been, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder told the IMF Committee.

Slow COVID-19 labour market recovery expected in Latin America and the Caribbean

10 November 2020

The pandemic has led to the biggest contraction in the region in the last 100 years, with 47 million jobs lost across the region in the second quarter of 2020.

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