Feature articles

September 2009 

• Social protection for all: From large-scale poverty to decent societies
  02 September 2009 - The global recession has increased unemployment and poverty across the world. ...

August 2009 

• Power for the powerless; the woman behind India's ‘Gentle Revolution’
  31 August 2009 - The year 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the ILO’s gender equality action plan, and the end of a year-long global ILO campaign on gender equality and the world of work. One of the themes of the campaign was “Social dialogue at work: voices and choices for women and men”. ...
• Gonaives: Preparing for the next big storm
  26 August 2009 - Come hurricane season, the citizens of Gonaives in northern Haiti brace for the worse. Five years ago, Hurricane Jeanne ripped through its shores sending walls of water and mud down the surrounding slopes and changing the face of the city forever. ...
• By cooking and cleaning, Cambodia’s Mr. Mom sweeps away poverty
  21 August 2009 - The year 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the ILO’s gender equality action plan, and the end of a year-long global ILO campaign on gender equality and the world of work. One of the themes of the campaign was the issue of harmonizing employment and family commitments for both women and men. ...
• Facing the global jobs crisis: Migrant workers, a population at risk
  13 August 2009 - The global economic crisis is posing new challenges for the world's 100 million migrant workers. They may face reduced employment and migration opportunities, worsening living and working conditions and increasing xenophobia. Although no massive return of migrant workers has been observed so far, the crisis is having repercussions on their earnings and the remittances they send home. ...
  • The global economic crisis and migrant workers: Impact and response (available in english only)
• Community tourism: respecting nature, local culture and indigenous peoples’ rights while on vacation
  07 August 2009 - Indigenous peoples throughout the world share a common experience of marginalization and discrimination. The non-recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to their traditional lands, territories and resources has impaired their opportunity to engage in traditional occupations. ...

July 2009 

• In Zambia, a commitment to inclusive approaches for people with disabilities
  09 July 2009 - An estimated 7 to 9 per cent of women and men in Zambia live with a disability, most of them in poverty. ILO Online reports from the country’s capital Lusaka where Disability Equality Training (DET) is part of a new effort to make sure that the needs of people with disabilities are taken into account in development programmes.
• Migrant workers’ cooperatives as a crisis response
  03 July 2009 - This year the theme of the International Day of Cooperatives focuses on the opportunities for co-operatives to effectively contribute to global economic recovery in times of crisis. In Indonesia, thousands of migrant workers, victims of the unfolding economic and social crisis, are returning home. Setting-up a cooperative is one option for these returning migrants, as this report by Gita F. ...

June 2009 

• The Economic Crisis in Asia: It’s about real people, real jobs
  26 June 2009 - When the financial crisis predictably turned into a jobs crisis, the Asia-Pacific region found itself facing mass unemployment. As many as 100 million people in Asia could be unemployed this year, according to ILO estimates. Allan Dow, ILO press officer, reports from Thailand.
• Decent Work for domestic workers: a long way to go.
  17 June 2009 - The ILO and other women’s advocacy groups consider domestic work to be among the most precarious of occupations. The present economic downturn and jobs crisis sweeping the world is likely to aggravate those vulnerabilities depicted in a report to the 2009 International Labour Conference taking stock of gender equality in the world of work. ILO press officer Allan Dow reports from Bangkok.