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August 2022
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Media advisory
ILO to release new report on youth employment
04 August 2022
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Video
Two years on from the Beirut blast, how ILO helped create jobs and a safer city
04 August 2022
After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th 2020, the International Labour Organization mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process created decent jobs and hope for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees. The Organization continues to work with the authorities to restore livelihoods and create a safer city. Find out more: www.ilo.org/lebanon
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Job losses
New ILO estimates show Myanmar remains deeply affected by job losses in first half of 2022
01 August 2022
Employment remains well below 2020 levels while productivity levels contract further and job quality deteriorates.
July 2022
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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
NERVO call for a world free from child labour and trafficking
29 July 2022
To coincide with World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and their last performance at Tomorrowland festival for 2022, superstar DJ duo NERVO raise their voices for action on child vulnerability, labour and trafficking.
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Podcast series: Global challenges – Global solutions
Work-life transitions: Are they becoming more turbulent?
27 July 2022
This podcast episode aims to explore labour market transition patterns to enhance global knowledge of such patterns for informed and timely policymaking, particularly in emerging and developing countries, and identifies the role digitalization plays as a driver of changing transition patterns but also as a facilitator of transitions.
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Child labour and human trafficking
Top DJ duo NERVO debut song to raise awareness of child labour and human trafficking
26 July 2022
Ahead of World Day Against Human Trafficking, top-ranked female DJ duo NERVO have teamed up with the children’s charity Hopeland and the International Labour Organization to urge action on child vulnerability, child labour and human trafficking.
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The Future of Work Podcast
Is there a place for grief at work?
19 July 2022
When Lizzie Pickering's young son Harry died in 2000, she embarked on a journey to understand grief, how to live with it and how to help other people when their life has changed. In this podcast, she shares the lessons she's learned from her own experiences and those of others.
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Forced Labour
Japan reinforces its commitment to fight against forced labour
19 July 2022
Japan becomes the 177th Member State to ratify Convention No. 105
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Ukraine crisis
How Trade Union members are supporting Ukrainians
19 July 2022
Since the onset of the Russian aggression and with ILO assistance, trade union members in the construction sector have multiplied initiatives to help the population.
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BRICS Ministers of Labour and Employment meeting
ILO Director-General welcomes BRICS commitment to green jobs, skills development, workers’ protection
15 July 2022
Guy Ryder warned the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministers, from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, of a growing risk of further labour market deterioration in 2022.