Feature articles

September 2010 

• Promoting job creation for young people in multinational enterprises
  01 September 2010 - Liberia’s 14 year war left gaping holes in the infrastructure critical to investment and recovery and delayed a generation of youth from entering the labour market. Today, almost two-thirds of the population live in poverty. Youth between ages of 15 and 35 make up 53 per cent of the workforce, yet constitute 58 per cent of the unemployed. ...

July 2010 

• Youth employment in crisis: Questions and answers on the situation of youth on the labour market
  14 July 2010 - Young people have been disproportionately affected by the global crisis that broke out in the autumn of 2008. This trend has exacerbated earlier challenges and there is concern that unless action is taken, the situation of youth will become unsustainable, putting social cohesion at threat. ...
• Cooperatives and the crisis: “Our customers are also our owners”
  02 July 2010 - Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. Report from Sweden.

June 2010 

• Paid sick leave pays off in times of crisis
  24 June 2010 - Paid sick leave plays a crucial role especially in times of crises where many workers fear dismissal and discrimination when reporting sick. A new ILO study shows that paid sick leave is not only affordable but pays off in terms of health and economic gains for employers, workers and the economy at large. ...
• Questions and answers about maternity at work
  23 June 2010 - Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation, in 1919, when the first International Labour Conference adopted the first Maternity Protection Convention No. 3. A new publication on the state of maternity protection in the world has just been released by the ILO. ...
• ILO-UN Social Protection Floor Initiative: The role of social security in crisis response and recovery, and beyond
  16 June 2010 - The crisis has reinforced the perception that the extension of social security should be a high priority. While in many developing countries social security systems were previously considered unaffordable, they are now regarded as important investments to support sustainable economic growth. ...
• Learn about it at work: an HIV poster campaign in Russia
  16 June 2010 - The proposed new standard on HIV/AIDS that is under discussion at the International Labour Conference is not only the first international human rights instrument to focus explicitly on HIV/AIDS. ...
• ‘The main change has to happen in peoples’ minds’: a child labour film programme in Kyrgyzstan
  11 June 2010 - The ILO Global Report “Accelerating action against child labour“, launched in May 2010 calls for “better targeted advocacy” based on “filling important knowledge gaps and making greater use of the media”. This story shows how a small-scale but successful child labour awareness programme in one of the Central Asian countries is putting this kind of advocacy to work.
• Child Labour in Cambodia - A New Direction
  10 June 2010 - Although Cambodia is emerging as one of the brightest economic growth stories of Southeast Asia, over 313,000 children are trapped in the worst forms of exploitation such as drug trafficking and prostitution. ...
• A policy framework for better managing business and human rights challenges
  07 June 2010 - One of the main goals of the UN Framework "Protect, Respect and Remedy" is to identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for business enterprises with regard to human rights. ...