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• 2007 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean - Buy now
  14 May 2008 - This report demonstrates that Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress in improving some key labour market indicators, especially in reducing unemployment, but significant gaps persist that affect the most vulnerable populations, the rate of informality remains high and not all workers have social protection...
• 2005 Labour Overview - Latin America and the Caribbean - [pdf 1543 KB] - Buy now
  09 November 2005 - This report provides a valuable assessment of the current economic and labour market situation in Latin America and the Caribbean. It examines how, overall, healthy economic performance has led to improvements in the regional labour market, but that unemployment in the region still remains high.

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• Active labour market policies around the world. Coping with the consequences of globalization. (Second edition) - Buy now
  30 April 2008 - This revised and updated edition provides an authoritative account of how active labour market policies (ALMPs) can help make globalization work better in the interest of workers around the world.
• Achieving equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities through legislation. Guidelines - Buy now
  13 December 2007 - These guidelines reflect the reappraisal of disability as a human rights issue. Intended for policy-makers and drafters of legislation, they have been developed with a view to assisting in improving the effectiveness of national laws concerning training and employment of disabled persons, as part of an ILO Project "The Employment of People with Disabilities: The impact of Legislation". ...
• ABC of women workers' rights and gender equality - Buy now
  29 October 2007 - This second-editioned publication presents important information relevant to women workers in entries on sexual harassment, women in development, the glass ceiling and many more. With an easy-to-follow, this book provides an essential tool raising awareness and legal literacy on gender equality issues.
• A manual for gender audit facilitators. The ILO participatory gender audit methodology - Buy now
  13 July 2007 - This manual provides gender audit facilitators with guidelines and practical instructions on how to plan and implement participatory gender audits in an organizational context. ...
• A handbook on HIV/AIDS for labour and factory inspectors -