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FACTS ON INVESTING IN DECENT WORK FOR WOMEN
More women are participating in labour markets throughout the world today than ever before. However, increases in labour force participation have not resulted in a substantial narrowing of gender gaps in the world of work. For instance, women are still less likely than men to hold regular wage and salaried positions...
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FACTS ON DISABILITY IN THE WORLD OF WORK
One of every 10 people in the world has a disability — some 650 million worldwide. Approximately 470 million are of working age. While many are successfully employed and fully integrated into society, as a group, persons with disabilities often face disproportionate poverty and unemployment...
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FACTS ON MICROFINANCE AND DECENT WORK
Because its constituents – governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations – each bring their perspectives to the table, the ILO is an ideal forum for furthering microfinance to meet the poverty challenge. The ILO promotes opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work. The ILO builds on the links between microfinance and Decent Work...
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SAFETY AT WORK
Each year, an estimated two million women and men die as a result of occupational accidents and work-related diseases. Across the globe, there are some 270 million occupational accidents and 160 million work-related diseases each year. The ILO has never accepted the notion that injury and disease “go with the job”. Prevention works...
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FACTS ON THE ILO AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Five years ago the United Nations endorsed an ambitious Programme of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at creating a better and more secure world by the year 2015. As the UN prepares to hold its biggest ever World Summit, the distressing truth is that progress has been agonizingly slow....
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FACT SHEET ON YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
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 and rising to 13 per cent in 2009. Unemployment rates, however, reflect only the tip of the iceberg.....
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