Fact sheets

2010 

• Fact sheet on Youth Employment 2010 - [pdf 343 KB]
  11 August 2010 - Across the globe, the economic crisis has had a dramatic impact on the challenges facing young people seeking jobs. Between 2008 and 2009, the youth unemployment rate has seen the largest annual increase on record, reversing the pre-crisis trend of declining youth unemployment rates since 2002. ...
• Facts on Child Labour 2010 - [pdf 197 KB]
  07 May 2010 - For over a decade, child labour has been recognized as a key issue of human rights at work together with freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, the abolition of forced labour, and non-discrimination in occupation and employment...
• Sectors at a glance: Coverage of the global economic crisis (Factsheet) - [pdf 1323 KB]
  17 March 2010 - Snapshot of the impact of the crisis by economic activities at the end of 2009
• Promotion flyer:The fundamentals of labour administration - [pdf 772 KB]
  04 February 2010
• On the right track – Fact Sheets - [pdf 2776 KB]
  01 January 2010 - There are many myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS. This booklet is a set of eight fact sheets explaining the facts.

2009 

• Facts on Disability and Decent Work - [pdf 187 KB]
  10 November 2009 - People with disabilities represent an estimated 10 per cent of the world’s population, or some 650 million people worldwide. Approximately 470 million are of working age.
• Forced Labour: Facts and Figures - The Cost of Coercion, Regional Perspectives: EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA - [pdf 39 KB]
  12 May 2009 - Until recently, the spotlight throughout Europe has been on forced labour involving undocumented workers or those who have not migrated through regular channels. However, trafficking for labour exploitation, including forced labour, is now moving up the agenda of policy-makers as more evidence of its existence comes to light. ...
• Forced Labour: Facts and Figures - The Cost of Coercion, Regional Perspectives: AMERICAS - [pdf 37 KB]
  12 May 2009 - Latin America accounts for the second largest number of forced labourers in the world after Asia, according to ILO estimates. Those most at risk are migrant workers in sweatshops, agriculture and domestic service. ...
• Forced Labour: Facts and Figures - The Cost of Coercion, Regional Perspectives: AFRICA - [pdf 38 KB]
  12 May 2009 - Forced labour has tended to receive less attention in Africa than in other regions, in part because of difficulties in collecting reliable information about the extent and nature of the problem. Nonetheless, Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the third highest incidence of forced labour in relation to population, after Asia and Latin America. ...
• Forced Labour: Facts and Figures - The Cost of Coercion, Regional Perspectives: MIDDLE EAST - [pdf 37 KB]
  12 May 2009 - Questions of forced labour and human trafficking are closely intertwined with migration in the Middle East, particularly in the Gulf States where there is a high proportion of migrant workers compared with national populations. ...
• Forced Labour: Facts and Figures - The Cost of Coercion, Regional Perspectives: ASIA - [pdf 46 KB]
  12 May 2009 - Asia accounts for by far the biggest share of the world’s forced labourers. Many are migrants, either from elsewhere in Asia or their home country. Research has also shown the existence of forced labour in sectors that had escaped previous attention, including Thailand’s shrimp, fishing and seafood processing industries and shrimp production in Bangladesh.
• World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2009 - Facts on safety and health at work issues - [pdf 151 KB]
  27 April 2009 - The protection of workers’ lives and health has been a key objective of the ILO from its very beginning 90 years ago, as an element of its founding charter.
• 8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on flexicurity - [pdf 229 KB]
  09 February 2009 - Policymakers all over Europe are facing the crucial challenge of regulating a rapidly evolving labour market in the context of the globalized economy. Will they listen to calls made for greater flexibility or can they place their trust in a “flexicurity” model: new ways of balancing flexibility and security in relation to employment, income and social protection?
• 8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on social protection in Europe and Central Asia - [pdf 235 KB]
  09 February 2009 - Over the past two decades, social security in Europe and Central Asia has been marked by change. Many countries have reformed social protection policies in response to fundamental changes in the make up of their population as well as domestic economic developments triggered by the globalization of financial and labour markets.
• 8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on quality of working life - [pdf 231 KB]
  09 February 2009 - Wages, working time and work organization, maternity protection and the work-life balance are some of the many interlinked dimensions of the quality of working life and of decent work.
• 8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on economic and employment trends: A time of challenges and opportunities - [pdf 232 KB]
  09 February 2009 - The period 1995–2007 saw a number of political and economic developments in Europe and Central Asia, including the expansion of the EU from 12 to 27 member States. During this time, the economy in the region has become more integrated and diverse, employment rates rose in most countries and unemployment decreased. Yet by early 2009, the global economic situation had changed dramatically.
• 8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on new wage challenges: trends and policy issues - [pdf 230 KB]
  09 February 2009 - The region from mid-90s has experienced some improvements in terms of real wage growth, particularly in countries of Central and Eastern Europe which are now in the EU. However, income and wage differences have widened over the same period.
• 8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on social dialogue - [pdf 230 KB]
  09 February 2009 - Over the past 10 to 15 years, the industrial relations’ map of Europe and Central Asia has changed significantly. While in the early 1990s, social dialogue was practiced in less than half the region, in 2008 the large majority of countries at least formally adhere to the concept, despite numerous obstacles and weaknesses.
• 8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on fundamental rights at work - [pdf 222 KB]
  09 February 2009 - Europe and Central Asia is the region with the highest ratification rate of the ILO’s eight fundamental Conventions linked to the 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. This high level of commitment to fundamental principles and rights at work offers a firm basis for the implementation of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. ...

2008 

• Facts and figures on green jobs - [pdf 176 KB]
  24 September 2008 - Green Jobs have become an emblem of a more sustainable economy and society, that preserves the environment for present and future generations and is more equitable and inclusive of all people and all countries.