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Press releases

• World of Work Report 2008: ILO launches new report on global Income Inequalities
  15 October 2008 - The International Institute for Labour Studies of the International Labour Office (ILO) is to launch a new study, entitled “World of Work Report 2008 – Income Inequality in the Age of Financial Globalization” on Thursday 16 October. (ILO/08/43)
• ILO Director-General calls for urgent measures to address “grave consequences” of global financial crisis
  10 October 2008 - The Director-General of the International Labour Office, Juan Somavia, has called for a series of urgent and coordinated financial, social, regulatory and development measures to avert a slide into recession and address the “grave” consequences of the global financial crisis. (ILO/08/42)

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Feature articles

• As shipping increases, so does the need for more port State control
  09 October 2008 - In response to an oil spill that fouled the west coast of France in 1978, European ministers took decisive action to establish a regional system for inspections of foreign ships in 1982. Yet the growing numbers of ship detentions in many ports worldwide show the continuous need for a global system of regular port inspections. ... (FTR/08/genoa)
  • Slideshow - Getting ships in shape
  • Guidelines for port State control officers carrying out inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - [pdf 319 KB]
  • Guidelines for flag State inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - [pdf 317 KB]
• Working in a ‘man’s world’: women in the Fiji police force
  08 October 2008 - There are higher proportions of women in public services worldwide, and an increasing number of equal opportunities policies exist globally. Nevertheless the ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (No. 111) adopted in 1958 remains as relevant today as it was in the late 1950s – in the Pacific region and elsewhere. ... (FTR/08/fiji_gender)

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I-news

• Peru: Microinsurance paves the way for social protection in rural areas
  14 October 2008 - A large insurance firm and an association of water irrigation users have teamed up to become the first providers of micro-life insurance for millions of small farmers in Peru. ... (INEWS/08/peru_microinsurance)
• IFC and ILO to improve labor standards and competitiveness in Vietnam’s apparel industry
  07 October 2008 - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the International Labour Organization today launched the program to improve working conditions for more than 700,000 workers in the Vietnamese apparel industry and boost the international competitiveness of the sector. (INEWS/08/vietnam)

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Video

• Our Workplace: Inventing the wind-up radio -
  13 October 2008 - Trevor Baylis is an English inventor best known for his wind-up radio inspired by his desire to bring information about HIV/AIDS to those who need it most in Africa. In this latest edition of Our Workplace, Zohreh Tabatabai met him at his home on Eel Pie island. What does decent work mean to him? "Do what gives you a buzz!" he says.
• Equal Pay in Portugal’s Restaurants -
  08 October 2008 - No matter how old, how experienced, how well educated or what the job, women are still paid less than men, all over the world. And traditional “women’s work” has always been chronically undervalued. ...

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