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 (...)
As the three-day Global Conference on Child Labour came to a close in Brasilia, former child labourers, the ILO Director-General and former President of Brazil Luis Inácio Lula da Silva all stressed the need to continue the fight against child (...)
Michael Elkin, the global manager for the ILO Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme underlines the link between working conditions and productivity in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), highlighting the dramatic improvements in competitiveness and working (...)
Renata Lemos , researcher at the London School of Economics on Management, Productivity and Development, shares the results of recent research, which demonstrates the positive link between the adoption of better management practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and improved (...)
Hilary Steedman, a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics talks about how apprenticeships can help small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) improve their productivity, and their importance for young employees, both women and (...)
Anna Biondi, Deputy Director of the ILO Bureau for Workers Activities (ACTRAV) underlines the need to create a cooperative environment in small and medium-sized enterprises, so that workers and managers can jointly bring about improved working conditions and develop policies addressing the (...)