Tag: ILO

• Thursday, May 31st 2012 - 05:52 UTC

  Labour Organization warns “Euro zone extreme policies could produce extreme reactions”

  

  Extreme policies to tackle the crisis in the Euro zone could produce extreme reactions, the outgoing Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Juan Somavia, told the delegates to the 101st International Labour Conference (ilo.org/ilc) that opened in Geneva on Wednesday 30 May.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 17:29 UTC

  Differences are with UK government “with the British people everything is fine”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández praised the appointment of British citizen Guy Rider as the head of the International Labour Organization because for the first time in history, the president of the International Labour Organization, ILO is a worker.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 04:27 UTC

  UK former union leader beats Latam candidate and is next ILO director general

  

  The United Nations International Labor Organization on Monday selected a former trade union leader, Guy Ryder of Britain, to become its new director general, a position that puts him at the forefront of an agency pushing to improve labor conditions around the world.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 09:15 UTC

  UN Tourism office forecasts record over a billion international tourist arrivals

  

  More than one billion tourists will take a trip this year crossing an international boundary, a threshold never before reached, UN officials told a meeting tourism ministers gathering in Mexico this week.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Argentina insists before Red Cross on identifying remains of combatants buried in the Falklands

  

  Vice President Amado Boudou called for a ‘concrete reply’ to Argentina’s request for the International Red Cross to collaborate with the identification of the combatants fallen during the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982 and whose remains are buried at the cemetery in Darwin.

• Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 00:28 UTC

  UK youth unemployment at its highest in two decades: 22.5%

  

  United Kingdom’s unemployment rate held at a 13-year high of 8.4% in the three months to January, and the youth unemployment rate rose to a record high, official data showed Wednesday.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2012 - 05:01 UTC

  One in three workers worldwide unemployed or living in poverty, says ILO

  

  The world faces the “urgent challenge” of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion, according to the annual report on global employment by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

• Tuesday, January 31st 2012 - 04:59 UTC

  ILO blames Germany’s low-wages policy as contributing to the Euro debt crisis

  

  Germany's persistent policies to push down wages have harmed fellow Euro zone member countries and contributed to the bloc's current debt crisis, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in Geneva.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Latam juvenile unemployment 14%, but most are informal jobs, says ILO

  

  Juvenile unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean stands at 14% double the urban rate and 60% of young workers hold informal jobs, according to Elizabeth Tinoco from the International Labour Organization.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  ILO warns G20: risks of ‘social unrest’ in 45 countries because of lack of jobs

  

  The global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that may ignite social unrest, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned. It will take at least five years for employment in advanced economies to return to pre-crisis levels, it said.