Highlights

• Workplace solutions for childcare
  8 March 2010 - Workplace partnerships are effective for working parents considering childcare solutions. The focus of this ILO study is on why workplace partners around the world have become involved in childcare and about the nature of programmes that have been implemented. Partnership is a key theme, and the authors highlight the fruitfulness of collaborations that combine the resources and capabilities of different actors. Ten countries, industrialized and developing, are examined through a national overview on policies and facilities for childcare and the implications for working parents, followed by case studies of specific workplaces.

• ILO celebrates International Women's Day 2010
  8 March 2010 - Each year, ILO celebrates International Women’s Day with an event honouring women of courage and conviction, from different aspects of the world of work. In 2010, the theme for ILO's celebration is «What’s working for working women!»

• ILO honours internationally-acclaimed recording artist Shakira for her work promoting social justice
  3 March 2010 - “You’ve always understood that social, economic and environmental policies and action must work together to create sustainable change,” Shakira told ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and hundreds of ILO staff, members of the diplomatic community and high-level representatives from UN organizations at a special ceremony. “It’s not too late to keep our promise to our children, but we must act now. Together, we can make education and decent work for all a reality.”

• Re-centring the global economy on people: Work and Social Justice
  20 February 2010 - Article by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO, published on L’Osservatore Romano on 21 February 2010, in occasion of the World Day for Social Justice

• Global Employment Trends 2010. Unemployment reached highest level on record in 2009: Somavia calls for the same policy decisiveness that saved banks to save and create jobs
  27 January 2010 - The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to 2007, on the eve of the global crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual "Global Employment Trends" report.

• Launch of the Children’s views of child labour exhibit
  26 January 2010 - The drawings in this exhibit convey powerful messages of despair and hope and are a vivid reminder of the inequalities and injustices that exist in our globalized world and the need for urgent action to end child labour. The exhibit will be in Rome on 26 January thanks to the Department for Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and will then be presented in the Protomoteca Hall, Municipality of Rome. An initiative of GenevaWorld Association, in partnership with the ILO.

• The International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin is on Facebook!
  28 January 2010 - An ITC-ILO Facebook page has recently been created. You are welcome to visit the new page and join our “fans’ list”. The page has just been published, and it is envisaged that it will undergo additional improvements. As information will be regularly added , please, visit this page often. If you join, you will find information, photos, discussions, links, videos… so what are you waiting for? There is another way to be associated with the ITC-ILO: join the ITC/ILO LinkedIn group and become a Friend of the Turin Centre Network.

• The 2010 Course Calendar of the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin is on-line
  7 January 2010 - The ITC-ILO has 45 years’ experience of providing quality training to its constituents and their partner institutions. Our 2010 Catalogue of standard courses is now available. We also provide tailor-made learning events, comprehensive training projects and advisory services, as well as designing and producing training material. The Centre has partnerships with both regional and national training institutions. So far, more than 180,000 women and men from some 190 nations have benefited from the Turin Centre's training and learning services. The new Centre catalogue is now online, detailing activities to take place on campus, in the field or at a distance in 2010. This year, 40 new courses are available. They will be held in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

• International Migrants’ Day
  17 December 2009 - The ILO Office in Rome, in collaboration with the IOM, organizes a conference on “Protecting migrants’ rights: measures adopted by Governments and international institutions”. This initiative should offer an opportunity for better understanding UN international instruments for the protection of migrants’ rights, and the way single States can enforce these instruments, taking into account migration developments during the last years. The Minister of Labour, Health and Social Policies, Maurizio Sacconi, will take the floor during the conference, together with representatives of social partners and international institutions.

• Message by Juan Somavia Director-General of the International Labour Office on the occasion of World AIDS Day
  1 December 2009 - It is our collective responsibility to respond to this call of World AIDS Day 2009: “I am living my rights. Stop AIDS, keep the promise.” Keeping the promise means enabling HIV-positive workers to remain on the job. Eliminating HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in the world of work upholds the dignity of work and of workers. Policies and strategies for prevention and treatment sustain the workforce: they must reach all workers, wherever they work, including in the informal and rural economy. And in sustaining the workforce we sustain families, communities, societies and economies.

• ILO adopts “Global Jobs Pact” aimed at creating jobs, protecting workers and stimulating economic recovery
  19 June 2009 - Faced with the prospect of a prolonged global increase in unemployment, poverty and inequality and continued duress for enterprises, in June 2009 the International Labour Conference, with the participation of Government, Employers’ and Workers’ delegates from the ILO’s member States, unanimously adopted a "Global Jobs Pact". This global policy instrument addresses the social and employment impact of the international financial and economic crisis. It promotes a productive recovery centred on investments, employment and social protection.