Sustainable development

Economic and social development

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Today, the ILO estimates that more than a billion women and men are unemployed, underemployed or working poor. A direct result of this is that some 120 million migrant workers and their families have left their home countries in hopes of finding a job somewhere else. An estimated 500 million new jobs will be needed over the next decade to absorb new entrants to the labour market, most of them youth and women. These are the human faces of the social dimension of sustainable development, and their needs must figure in sustainable development policies.

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  • International buyers get behind the Haitian garment industry
    07 October 2009 - Better Work, the unique partnership programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), organized the first-ever international buyers forum in Haiti recently as part of a new project that is expected to create jobs and promote sustainable development and responsible labour practices in the country’s apparel industry.
  • Environmentally sustainable development: the WILL is there
    30 January 2006 - NAIROBI (ILO Online) - The Workers Initiative for a Lasting Legacy (WILL 2006), organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the ILO, SustainLabour and the UN Global Compact, held here the first ever trade union assembly on labour and the environment last week. ...

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