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Articles of the author Dennis Zulu ILO
Liberia: Waging war on youth unemployment
The room was filled with about 50 excited Liberian youth, all sporting white T-shirts with the inscription “Graduate" printed on the back. The young women and men had completed three-month apprenticeships with enterprises in the Liberian capital, (...)

06 - 12 - 2012
Fighting disability from within
GENEVA (ILO News) – Angela Friska started suffering from asthma when she was 8. Her parents soon discovered that the strong medication was affecting her hearing ability, as they had to constantly repeat their words to her. By the age of 10, Angela (...)

03 - 12 - 2012
“Alien plants" boost green jobs in South Africa
GENEVA (ILO News) – South Africa has been at the forefront of green jobs creation in Africa. One of the main catalysts of this effort has resulted from the proliferation of what experts call “invasive alien plants". These alien plants are actually (...)

20 - 11 - 2012
Ethiopia among those named by ILO as violators of freedom of assembly
GENEVA (ILO News): The ILO has named Argentina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji and Peru – out of a list of 32 countries examined – as the most serious and urgent cases regarding freedom of association. The ILO Committee on Freedom of Association examined (...)

15 - 11 - 2012
More than 70 percent of workers lack unemployment protection
GENEVA (ILO News): More than 70 per cent of workers worldwide have no statutory access to unemployment insurance or any type of unemployment assistance, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said. Unemployment insurance schemes exist in 72 (...)

14 - 11 - 2012
Turkey: Healing pharmacies
GENEVA (ILO News) – Fatih Başer is a 35 year-old man working as a translator in Istanbul. As is often the case in Turkey, buying affordable and reliable drugs has not always been easy for him. “In our country, there's a risk that the products sold (...)

12 - 11 - 2012
Tourism benefits Vietnam's rural poor
News (Quang Nam, Vietnam) – Dawn breaks in Bho Hoong Village, revealing a hidden, picturesque community not far from the historic Ho Chi Minh Trail in the central province of Quang Nam. The village is home to 67 members of the Ca Tu ethnic minority. (...)

04 - 11 - 2012
Time for women to get on board
GENEVA (ILO News) – Women make up about 50 per cent of the world's population but only a fraction become company CEOs or board members. Yet, evidence shows that having women at the top helps boost company performance. In major US companies, only (...)

04 - 11 - 2012
Rebuilding shattered lives in Sri Lanka
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (ILO News) – Conscripted by the Tamil Tigers at 20, Vadivel Kesavapillai* lost his right arm in Sri Lanka's civil war. Now, he owns a small restaurant thanks to training and funds from a UN program for victims of the (...)

21 - 10 - 2012
The lure of apprenticeships in times of crisis
GENEVA (ILO News) – Determined to avert the rise of a lost generation, the world is increasingly looking to apprenticeships as a silver bullet against the global youth jobs crisis. Any solution obviously would be complex but the renewed focus on (...)

15 - 10 - 2012
ILO calls for an end to discrimination against young girls
GENEVA: ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has called for a coherent set of measures to ensure that girl children around the world attain social justice and progress. In a statement issued for the first International Day of the Girl Child, Ryder said (...)

10 - 10 - 2012
Employment rights essential to economic recovery
GENEVA (ILO News) – International labor standards must be preserved and promoted if the world is to recover from the economic and employment crisis, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has warned. In his first interview since taking the helm at the ILO, (...)

01 - 10 - 2012
Social dialogue needed to prevent further violence in SA mines
GENEVA (ILO News) – As an inquiry begins into the fatal August shooting of dozens of striking miners in South Africa, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has called for high-level social dialogue in order to prevent further violence and (...)

01 - 10 - 2012
All aboard the women's rights bus in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (ILO news) – Public transport is meant for the convenience of the masses, but this is not always the case in Pakistan, particularly if you are a woman. Women represent 51 per cent of Pakistan's population, but in a town like (...)

24 - 09 - 2012
Arab workers need a minimum of income protection, says ILO
Amman (ILO News) – Governments could lift millions out of poverty by adopting more coherent and inclusive minimum wage setting policies, the ILO will tell participants at the “Regional Tripartite Meeting on Wage Policies in the Arab Countries" which (...)

17 - 09 - 2012
Pakistani factory fire highlights lack of workplace safety measures
GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) has called for national action to protect workers' health and safety, following the deaths of at least 240 workers in a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. Seiji Machida, Head of (...)

13 - 09 - 2012
Youth suicide underlines ILO call for action on jobs in occupied Palestine
BEIRUT (ILO News) – The death this week of Ihab Abu Nada, a young Palestinian who set himself on fire after months of desperately looking for a job, is a graphic reminder of the precarious situation of workers in the occupied Palestinian (...)

05 - 09 - 2012
Landmark treaty for domestic workers set for establishing
GENEVA (ILO News) – The Philippines has become the second country to ratify the ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, thus allowing the first global standard for domestic workers to come into force in twelve months' time. “Today's (...)

05 - 09 - 2012
China's latest revolution: Basic health care for all
BEIJING: In a little over three years, China has managed to extend basic health-care access to more than 95 percent of its 1.35 billion population. “This was mainly done by extending health insurance coverage and improving access to reformed and (...)

03 - 09 - 2012
Social media gives voice to indigenous communities
GENEVA: With about half the world's indigenous people living in cities -where connection to the wired world is comparatively easy – electronic media is playing a growing role in promoting their rights. “Thanks to the Internet, it only takes a couple (...)

09 - 08 - 2012
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