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Press releases

• ILO launches new report on global wages, including impact of financial crisis
  21 November 2008 - The International Labour Office (ILO) is to launch a new study, entitled "Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence" on Tuesday 25 November that examines major trends in wages worldwide over the past decade, and provides a forecast of wage evolution in 2009 due to the global financial crisis. (ILO/08/52)
• ILO concern expressed over the situation in Swaziland
  21 November 2008 - The members of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization have expressed concern over the situation relating to freedom of association in Swaziland, and in particular over the security of Jan Sithole, Secretary General of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions. (ILO/08/54)

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Feature articles

• From Veil to Camera: Empowering women through skills training
  13 November 2008 - In many countries, women face more barriers than men to acquire the necessary skills to use new technologies and to start innovative economic activities. ... (FTR/08/skills_gender)
• Proper ship breaking: a test for globalization and decent work
  03 November 2008 - The last voyage of the ship "Otapan" to a Turkish ship breaking yard last July was a victory for "pre-cleaning" advocates of reducing the human and environmental dangers inherent in ship dismantling and recycling. ... (FTR/08/shipbreaking)

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I-news

• ILO Director-General looks to G20’s next step on social impact of crisis
  16 November 2008 - The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Juan Somavia, today issued the following statement regarding the extraordinary meeting of leaders from the G20 (INEWS/08/G20)
• ILO and Italy sign new cooperation agreement
  13 November 2008 - The Italian government and the International Labour Organization signed a new Programme Cooperation Agreement for the period 2008-2010 aimed at promoting key areas of the Decent Work Agenda, including employment creation—especially for youth—labour rights, social dialogue and social protection and the empowerment of women. (INEWS/08/Italycoop)

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• ILO has a major role to play in responding to the economic crisis says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -
  19 November 2008 - ILO Director General Juan Somavia welcomed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today to the ILO's Governing Body. Finding solutions to the economic crisis requires the kind of forward thinking represented at the ILO, said the Secretary-General, which brings together employers, workers and governments. ...
• Time of crisis is an opportunity for change, says Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez-Zapatero -
  18 November 2008 - The Spanish President, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, called today on governments around the world to sustain and strengthen policies that promote social cohesion, employment and social dialogue as a fundamental step towards solving the current financial and economic crisis. (in Spanish)

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