Feature articles

November 2006 

• Combating child labour: Lessons from the Turkish labour inspection experience
  07 November 2006 - Over the last two years, more than 4,000 children and youth in three Turkish provinces have been withdrawn or prevented from entering the worst forms of child labour thanks to a labour inspection project launched by the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). ...
• Social protection for all: challenges and policies
  03 November 2006 - In 1948, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations proclaimed that "Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security…". Yet today, only 20 per cent of the world's population enjoys access to adequate social protection, while more than half have no cover whatsoever. ...

October 2006 

• Youth employment: why Nikola can't afford to wait
  27 October 2006 - The EXIT Festival, a major European music event, started out being against war but now turns on efforts to combat youth unemployment. A new ILO report says that one out of every three youth in the world is either seeking but unable to find work, has given up the job search entirely or is working but still living below the US$2 a day poverty line. ILO Online reports from Novi Sad, Serbia.
• Wanted: Job with decent wage
  27 October 2006 - Youth unemployment is a persistent problem in Latin America, but there is also a need to improve the quality of jobs, according to a new report repared by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Luis Cordova reports from Santiago de Chile for ILO OnLine.
• International drivers: from delays to disease, a heavy load to haul
  20 October 2006 - 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. ...
• International Day for Poverty Eradication 2006 Working Together out of Poverty
  16 October 2006 - 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. ...
• New UN Report on violence against children: the workplace setting Zero tolerance for violence against children in the workplace
  12 October 2006 - 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 against children who are working - whether legally or in child labour. ...

September 2006 

• "My Future Is Not a Dream": Chinese migrants start their own business
  29 September 2006 - An exciting and unusual new TV drama series started on Sichuan TV's public channel last month. "My Future Is Not a Dream" is more than an ordinary soap opera written simply to entertain people. The drama series was set up to encourage migrant workers to start their own businesses. ...
• Mongolian child jockeys – balancing cultural heritage with safety
  22 September 2006 - Horse races with child jockeys are part of Mongolia's cultural heritage, but the growing number of races and serious, sometimes fatal accidents have drawn increasing public attention. The issue was discussed for the first time at a recent national forum which was supported by the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). N. ...
• The global jobs crisis: Address the growing imbalance between growth and jobs creation
  20 September 2006 - Faced with the fact that growth is not producing enough jobs worldwide, the world's financial leaders recently gathered in Singapore must focus on more than trade and financial imbalances, says ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. In this article, Mr. Somavia calls for significant policy reforms to deal with global imbalances between growth and job creation.