In a country where 75 per cent of the population live in rural areas and 40 per cent are below the poverty line, improving a short stretch of road can mean more jobs and a better quality of life for rural workers and their families.
As a High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development is taking place in New York, ILO Director General Guy Ryder discusses ways to improve labour migration governance for the benefit of all.
“We see greater understanding that decent work for adults and youth of working age is a necessity if we are to ensure family incomes that do not rely on child labour – and in turn, that child labour undermines decent work and decent wages for adult workers,” says ILO chief Guy Ryder at the opening (...)
To mark the III Global Conference on Child Labour in Brasilia (8-10 October), renowned Brazilian artists Wagner Moura, Camila Pitanga, Gilberto Miranda, Priscilla Camargo, Osmar Prado, Bete Mendes and Dira Paes team up with the ILO and its campaign to stop child labour now by holding up THEIR (...)
Warning that the common goal to eliminate the worst forms of child labour will not be met by 2016 at the current rate of progress, ILO Director General Guy Ryder and Brazilian President Dilma Roussef urged delegates to redouble their efforts at the opening of the Third Global Conference on (...)
The ILO announced its global campaign to stop child labour at the closing of the III Global Conference on Child Labour in Brasilia. Wagner holds up the Red Card with Cher, Tim Roth, Susan Sarandon, and other artists, athletes and activists. It is time for you to hold up (...)
The ILO announced its global campaign to stop child labour at the closing of the Third Global Conference on Child Labour in Brasilia. Cher holds up the Red Card, now you hold up yours!
While in Brazil for the III Global Conference on Child Labour (Brasilia, 8-10 October 2013), ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, met with the beneficiaries of the "Me Encontrei" programme in Cuiabá, the capital city of the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso. The programme, supported by the (...)