GENEVA (ILO News) – As the football World Cup in South Africa kicks off, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is to mark the World Day Against Child Labour with an urgent appeal to “go for the goal – end child labour,” calling particular attention to the target  of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

“While billions are caught up in the excitement of the football World Cup, some 215 million children are labouring for survival. Education and play are luxuries for them.

It is time to make a concerted effort to ensure that occupational safety and health is an integral element of strategies for strong, sustainable and balanced development. Workers and their families, enterprises, societies and economies stand to benefit.

Every day some 6,300 people die as a result of work-related injuries or diseases – more than 2.3 million deaths per year. Each of the 337 million workplace accidents that occur each year commonly results in extended absences from work.

The human

GENEVA (ILO News) – Despite signs of progress in gender equality over the past 15 years, there is still a significant gap between women and men in terms of job opportunities and quality of employment, according to a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO).

The report, entitled Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges, says that more than a decade after the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing adopted an ambitious global platform for action on gender

GENEVA (ILO News) – The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to 2007, on the eve of the global crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends report. 

Based on IMF economic forecasts, the ILO estimates that global unemployment is likely to remain high through 2010. In the Developed Economies and European Union unemployment is projected to increase by an additional 3

Итоги реализации Страновой программы КР по достойному труду на 2006-2009 гг. обсудили 22 декабря 2009г. на «круглом столе» в Бишкеке.

В мероприятии приняли участие представители Центрального агентства по развитию, инвестициям и инновациям, Министерства труда, занятости и миграции КР, Госинспекции труда при Министерстве труда, занятости и миграции КР, Госагентства по профтехобразованию  при Министерстве труда, занятости и миграции КР, Федерации профсоюзов КР, Национальной конфедерации

GENEVA (ILO News) – An “early exit” from support measures adopted in response to the global economic crisis could postpone a jobs recovery for years and render the fledgling economic upturn “fragile and incomplete”, a new report by the research arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.

In a stark analysis of the impact of the global recession, the ILO’s World of Work Report 2009: The Global Jobs Crisis and Beyond, also projected that unless adequate measures are adopted and in

ALMATY (ILO News) – High-level representatives from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey will examine regional policy responses to the economic crisis at a UN Ministerial Conference jointly organized by four U.N. agencies (the  ILO, UNICEF, FAO and UNDP ) and hosted by  the Government of Kazakhstan  in Almaty (Kazakhstan) on 7-8 December.  

GENEVA (ILO News) – Global growth in real wages slowed dramatically in 2008 as a result of the economic crisis and is expected to drop even further this year despite signs of a possible economic recovery, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said today.

“The continued deterioration of real wages worldwide raises serious questions about the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early. Wage deflation deprives national economies of

4th July 2009 - It is timely to recall the value of cooperatives as we confront the crisis of the global economy.

With the primacy of market values, people, the dignity of work and the social dimension of globalization came to be subordinated to market dictates. And the short term logic of financial markets undermined the longer term horizon of real economy enterprises, including cooperatives. This was unsustainable and remains unacceptable.

The ILO – celebrating its 90th anniversary this year -

GENEVA (ILO News) – Faced with the prospect of a prolonged global increase in unemployment, poverty and inequality and the continuing collapse of enterprises, the International Labour Organization (ILO) today adopted a Global Jobs Pact designed to guide national and international policies aimed at stimulating economic recovery, generating  jobs and providing protection  to working people and their families.

“Urgent action is required now to boost economic recovery and job creation whilst