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Backgrounder: Major events in protecting rights, welfare of children
Xinhua News Agency and other leading world media will provide 24-hour global coverage of Universal Children's Day, which falls on Nov. 20. The following is a chronology of major events in protecting the rights and welfare of...
Precariat meet & greet
The New Unionists of the 1880’s built trade unions as we know them by organizing the proletariat – the working class of the day. Similarly, today’s new unionists are beginning to organize the precariat – workers without...
LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
By Dalila Mahdawi BEIRUT, Nov 21 (IPS) - October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. The workers leave their families behind to travel to...
ILO Governing Body calls for comprehensive crisis response, long-ter..
Zaterdag 21 november 2009 | International Labour Organization (ILO) ] GENEVA (ILO News) - The Governing Body of the International Labour Office called for an "employment oriented" response to the global economic crisis based on...
CII launches toll free helpline on HIV/AIDS
From correspondents in Delhi, India, 10:04 PM IST In a bid to spread awareness on HIV/AIDS, the Confederation of Indian Industriy (CII) Friday announced the launch of a toll free helpline in four languages. Making the...
UN slams Myanmar
Geneva - The UN labour agency has criticised Myanmar for failing to abolish forced labour. The International Labour Organisation says it is "deeply concerned" that the southeast Asian country continues to imprison people who...
LABOR-INDONESIA: Future Looks Bleak for Laid-Off Workers
By Hera Diani WEST JAVA, Indonesia , Nov 19 (IPS) - Having been hit by the global financial crisis, the firm had to let go of 1,301 employees, including Farida. Although Farida’s salary was just slightly above the monthly...
Expats pin hopes on new private sector labor law
KUWAIT: The scheduled discussion of the amendments to the draft private sector labor law during yesterday's parliamentary session was postponed until Dec 8, 2009 following heated exchanges between MPs and the government and...
Africa: Africa Urged to Unveil Stimulus Packages
Africa's job markets will be worst hit by the global economic crisis unless governments unveil stimulus packages to protect jobs and companies from collapse, the International Labour Organisation has warned.
MICROFINANCE PAPER-WRAP UP: Technical Guidelines: “Microfinance Against Child Labour” by Judith...
Written by Judith van Doorn and Craig Churchill. Published February 2004 for Social Finance Programme of International Labor Organization for International Program on the Elimination of Child Labour. 46 pages, available at:...
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