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Press releases | Sustainable Recovery and Shaping a Fair Globalization
The Director-General of the International Labour Office, Juan Somavia, has called for a series of urgent and coordinated financial, social, regulatory and development measures to avert a slide into recession and address the “grave” consequences of the global financial crisis.
Feature articles | Getting ships in shape
As shipping increases, so does the need for more port State control
Press releases | Green Jobs
Landmark new report says emerging green economy could create tens of millions of new “Green Jobs”
I-news | Better work program
IFC and ILO to improve labor standards and competitiveness in Vietnam’s apparel industry
- Statement by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia -
- ILO Gender Equality campaign highlights need for rights, jobs and social security for older women and men
- Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and ILO Director-General Juan Somavia address the press during Microfinance Forum -
- ILO welcomes Manila Call to Action to protect rights of migrant women
- ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization
- Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction - [pdf 218 KB]
- Freedom of association in practice: Lessons learned. Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2008 - [pdf 1171 KB]
- Global Employment Trends report
- Towards a regular budget supplementary account (RBSA) for voluntary contributions
- Report III(1A): Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations - [pdf 10956 KB]
- Introducing the Toolkit for Mainstreaming Employment and Decent Work -