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Press releases

• 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)
• ILO Gender Equality campaign highlights need for rights, jobs and social security for older women and men
  01 October 2008 - Despite increasing international attention to ageing societies and older persons, in many societies, older persons and especially older women, still face age discrimination in the workplace and lack access to rights, jobs and social security, the International Labour Office said today on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons. (ILO/08/41)

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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

• 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)
• ILO welcomes Manila Call to Action to protect rights of migrant women
  30 September 2008 - Governments from 38 countries, trade unions, employers’ organizations, the private sector, civil society organizations including women’s and religious associations, academe and international organizations adopted a Manila Call to Action here to enhance opportunities and protect the rights of migrant women and their families all over the world. (INEWS/08/manila)

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Video

• 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. ...
• Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and ILO Director-General Juan Somavia address the press during Microfinance Forum -
  02 October 2008 - The founder of Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Mr. Muhammad Yunus, joined Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office, Jean Zwahlen, Chairman of the World Microfinance Forum Geneva, and Ivan Pictet, Chairman of the Geneva Financial Centre, at a press conference at the first symposium of the World Microfinance Forum Geneva taking place this week.

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