ILO Assistant Director-General to visit typhoon areas

Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto, the ILO's Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, is to pay a visit to the Philippines to visit those affected by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), talk to workers taking part in emergency employment programmes and review efforts to rebuild the livelihoods of those affected.

Aviso a los medias | Manila, Philippines | 10 de diciembre de 2013
Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto, the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, is to pay a visit to the Philippines to visit those affected by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), talk to workers taking part in emergency employment programmes and review efforts to rebuild the livelihoods of those affected.

Mr Uramoto, who is the ILO’s most senior official in Asia Pacific, will arrive on Wednesday 11 December and stay until Friday 13 December. On Thursday 12 December he is scheduled to visit Tacloban and the surrounding area. He is expected to be accompanied by the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Baldoz, and the Director of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Lawrence Jeff Johnson.

During his mission to the Philippines he will also meet representatives of workers’ and employers’ organizations and UN officials.

For more information please contact: 


Ms Minette Rimando
ILO Country Office for the Philippines
+63 2 580 9905 or 580 9900
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Ms Sophy Fisher
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
+63 2 580 9900
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