Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
As we wrote in our previous issue ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis on February 9 signed the joint agreement to strengthen their collaboration and partnership in a major new effort to bolster UN actions designed to reduce poverty and create more decent work. The ILO and UNDP will promote inclusive economic growth with social development to benefit the bottom 20 to 40 percent of the population, and bolster UN efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
The ILO is ready to help Kyrgyzstan work out a special project on the elimination of child labour. Specialists of the state migration and employment committee say cases of child labour are often in Kyrgyzstan. Children under 14 years of age are actively involved in the labour market and in most cases get minimal wages or no payment for equal work with adults. As a rule, in Kyrgyzstan’s poorest families children have to leave school and start working to help their families.
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
Kyrgyzstan’s national migration and employment committee will monitor every year how the programme for national employment policy up to 2010 is implemented in the republic. The programme was developed with the ILO’s assistance. The government defined the implementation of this programme as one of the executive power’s priorities.
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
UNITED NATIONS, New York — Each spring for the last quarter century, the United Nations Population Award has recognized outstanding contributions to the field of population and development.
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
With support from UNICEF, the Kyrgyz National Broadcasting Company is going to launch an educational cartoon series featuring nine-year-old Meena. The series looks at discrimination against girls and women and offers positive insights from which families and communities can learn. The cartoons, now available in Russian and Kyrgyz, were developed as part of the Meena Communication Initiative - a major human rights intervention campaign in South Asia that began in 1991 with support from UNICEF in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal. Its main intention is to transform the severely disadvantaged situation of girls and young women in many parts of Asia.
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