Feature articles

June 2004 

• Argentina: decent work as a goal for development
  16 June 2004 - There are signs of employment recovery in Argentina, but a lot remains to be done, outlined tripartite representatives and the ILO who signed a Memorandum of Understanding expressing their support to the launch of a National Decent Work Programme.
• Lighting up the opposition Smoking at work: non-smokers gain the upper hand
  14 June 2004
• Shackled dreams, lost learning: The costs of child domestic labour
  09 June 2004 - They are the hidden face of child labour. In Latin America, nearly 2 million girls are child domestic labourers. Like millions of other children employed outside of their family homes - often in abusive, exploitative conditions - they form a vast, cadre who are hidden behind closed doors, can't go to school and face a lost childhood. ...

May 2004 

• Getting out of the "poor man's mine shaft": How Poland faces globalization and EU accession
  28 May 2004 - Poland and the other new members of the European Union are jumping on a fast moving train. Will other newcomers be able to do the same? That was the subject of a meeting of workers, employers and governments from Nordic and Baltic States and Poland in Vilnius on 14 May, held to discuss regional aspects of globalization and EU accession, and how they might fit into the process. ...
• HIV/AIDS prevention: How empowering men and boys to promote gender equality can help
  25 May 2004 - The empowerment of women has long been considered a crucial element in the response to HIV/AIDS. New evidence, however, points to another important element in the equation - addressing the role of men and boys in promoting gender equality as a way of helping to prevent HIV-infection. ...
• Rural community based tourism: a portal to living cultures
  10 May 2004 - In the age of globalization, tourism is spreading beyond traditional tourist destinations. In Latin America, a number of small communities are taking up the challenge and seizing the opportunity to improve their conditions of life in ways that respect their heritage.
• Fighting child labour in Indonesia: ILO launches new programme
  05 May 2004 - Some 4 million children below the age of 18 in Indonesia work in often dangerous jobs. Can they find another way of life that benefits them and their families? As the ILO launches a new programme in Indonesia to fight child labour, ILO Online examines how one child traded work for education and found a better future for himself and his family in the process.

April 2004 

• 28 April, World Day for Safety and Health at Work - Two million work deaths a year: A preventable tragedy
  28 April 2004 - Work kills more people than wars – some 6,000 a day. And almost 270 million accidents are recorded each year, of which 350,000 are fatal. Many of these could be prevented, the International Labour Office believes. ...
• Gawanas Bience: "Decent work is about realizing how each of us can make a contribution to the whole"
  23 April 2004
• Innovation: The key to social security
  14 April 2004 - The Portuguese-speaking African countries plan to develop social security systems. The ILO recommends an innovative approach to extending social security coverage.