News
April 2009
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Article
Coops and the global financial crisis
23 April 2009
Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. ILO Online spoke with Hagen Henry, chief of the ILO’s Cooperatives Branch.
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Social security
Media Advisory: Seminar to examine social security in times of crisis: Impact, challenges and responses – Geneva, 24-25 April 2009
23 April 2009
Social security programmes worldwide are facing exceptional challenges imposed by the global financial crisis and are responding in innovative ways. An international seminar this week will hear how social security funds have suffered unprecedented losses in 2008, while simultaneously experiencing a significant increase in demand.
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90th anniversary of the ILO
ILO marks its 90th anniversary with global dialogue for decent work and a fair globalization
20 April 2009
Amid the worst financial and jobs crisis since the Great Depression, the International Labour Organization (ILO) will mark its 90th anniversary in the week of 21-28 April. During this period, there will be a global convergence on the common theme of social dialogue on decent work for a fair globalization in commemorative events in more than 100 countries across the world.
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Cooperatives
ILO Launches Third Call for Proposals to Promote Cooperatives in Africa
14 April 2009
The International Labour Organization announced the launch of a third call for proposals to promote cooperatives through the Cooperative Facility for Africa programme.
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Food security
From crisis to crisis: the impact of the global food crisis on decent work
09 April 2009
Since 2007, escalating food prices have created budget turmoil, trade imbalances and inflation and provoked panic and social unrest in some countries. Despite bumper harvests of rice and wheat in 2008 that may have alleviated some of the concern, economies are now grappling with a worsening global economic crisis. Is the evolution of lower prices for grains cause for hope, or will the economic crisis provide cause for fear? The food price situation was discussed in Geneva at an ILO meeting last month. ILO Online asked Dr. Riswanul Islam, Special Advisor on Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction, to take stock of the impact of the global food crisis on decent work and poverty.
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ILO 90th anniversary
Media advisory - ILO to mark its 90th anniversary
07 April 2009
The International Labour Organization is to mark its 90th anniversary with a series of events and activities held around the world by governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations representing its 182 member states.
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Caribbean Conference on jobs crisis
ILO Tripartite Caribbean Conference outlines action plan for addressing social and labour consequences of global financial crisis
06 April 2009
High-level representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations of the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean have come up with an action plan to address the social and labour consequences of the global financial crisis in the region. The action plan, presented under nine guiding principles, was put forward at the conclusion of the two-day International Labour Organization Tripartite Caribbean Conference which ended on 2 April 2009 in Kingston, Jamaica.
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G20 outcome
ILO Director-General calls London G20 Summit "an important step forward on a difficult road"
03 April 2009
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Juan Somavia welcomed the outcome of the London G20 Summit, saying that “The leaders of the G20 have made significant progress in consolidating a coordinated international response to the deepening global crisis".
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Monitoring the impact of the crisis
The global economic crisis and the impact on migrant workers
02 April 2009
The impact of the downturn in global economic activity on migrant workers is likely to be different depending on their distribution among economic sectors most likely to be affected by the crisis.
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Monitoring the impact of the crisis
Impacts of the global financial and economic crisis on child labour and youth employment
02 April 2009
The current economic slowdown - retrenchments in many formal economic sectors, reductions in working hours and downward pressure on household incomes - is placing increased pressure on vulnerable households and is likely to augment the incidence of child labour and youth unemployment and underemployment in the Asia and the Pacific region.