Issue briefs
2013
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At a glance
Health and safety at work factsheet: Global facts and figures
07 March 2013
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At a glance
Domestic workers: Facts and figures
07 March 2013
2010
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Fact sheet
Youth Employment (2010)
11 August 2010
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Fact sheet
Child Labour (2010)
07 May 2010
For over a decade, child labour has been recognized as a key issue of human rights at work together with freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, the abolition of forced labour, and non-discrimination in occupation and employment...
2009
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Fact sheet
Disability at work
10 November 2009
People with disabilities represent an estimated 10 per cent of the world’s population, or some 650 million people worldwide. Approximately 470 million are of working age.
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World Day for Safety and Health 2009
Facts on safety and health at work issues
27 April 2009
The protection of workers’ lives and health has been a key objective of the ILO from its very beginning 90 years ago, as an element of its founding charter.
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Publication
8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on new wage challenges: trends and policy issues
09 February 2009
The region from mid-90s has experienced some improvements in terms of real wage growth, particularly in countries of Central and Eastern Europe which are now in the EU. However, income and wage differences have widened over the same period.
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Publication
8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on social protection in Europe and Central Asia
09 February 2009
Over the past two decades, social security in Europe and Central Asia has been marked by change. Many countries have reformed social protection policies in response to fundamental changes in the make up of their population as well as domestic economic developments triggered by the globalization of financial and labour markets.
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Publication
8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on social dialogue
09 February 2009
Over the past 10 to 15 years, the industrial relations’ map of Europe and Central Asia has changed significantly. While in the early 1990s, social dialogue was practiced in less than half the region, in 2008 the large majority of countries at least formally adhere to the concept, despite numerous obstacles and weaknesses.
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Publication
8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on fundamental rights at work
09 February 2009
Europe and Central Asia is the region with the highest ratification rate of the ILO’s eight fundamental Conventions linked to the 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. This high level of commitment to fundamental principles and rights at work offers a firm basis for the implementation of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. However, problems of implementation remain in all parts of the region.