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ILO to launch new report on youth employment trends
GENEVA (ILO News) - A major new study on youth employment trends, as well as the number of youth living in poverty is to be published by the International Labour Office (ILO). - Monday, 23rd October 2006
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 International drivers: from delays to disease, a heavy load to haul
An ever increasing demand for international road transport has brought up new and difficult challenges for the road transport sector, including excessive border delays, inefficient or corrupt border control officers and drivers' vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. - Friday, 20th October 2006
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 International road transport at the crossroads
Economy, drivers take the load of delays, says new ILO report
Excessive border delays, inefficient or corrupt border officials and drivers' vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS put the international road transport sector at risk, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). - Friday, 20th October 2006
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 International Day for Poverty Eradication 2006. Working Together out of Poverty
This year's theme for the International Day for Poverty Eradication is "Working Together out of Poverty". Nearly half of the world's 2.8 billion workers are unable to earn enough to lift themselves and their family members above the US$2 a day poverty line. Promoting decent work opportunities for al... - Monday, 16th October 2006
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ILO Director-General Juan Somavia hails awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
The Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO), Juan Somavia, today issued a statement on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
- Friday, 13th October 2006
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 New UN Report on violence against children: the workplace setting. Zero tolerance for violence against children in the workplace
A new report by the United Nations on violence against children is to be transmitted to the UN General Assembly this week. One of its sections is devoted to violence as it affects children who work. According to the report, the key departure point has to be a policy of zero tolerance of violence aga... - Thursday, 12th October 2006
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