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Economic recovery is losing steam, warns UN labour agency

·January 16, 2025·2 min read

The newly released World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2025, sheds light on the deceleration of the global economy. This is impacting labour markets and stalling progress on recovery from previous economic downturns. In 2024, global employment expanded in line with a growing labour force, keeping the unemployment rate steady,...

Migrant workers ‘indispensable’ to global economic growth: UN labour agency

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·December 17, 2024·2 min read

Some 167.7 million migrants were part of the labour force in their destination countries in 2022 – an increase of more than 30 million since 2013, according to the ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers. Of this number, 102.7 million were men and 64.9 million were women. Regional distribution...

Wages are recovering after negative shift in 2022, says UN labour agency

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·November 28, 2024·2 min read

“If this trend is confirmed, it will be the largest gain in more than 15 years… however, this positive trend is not shared equally across regions,” said ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo. Speaking in Geneva at the launch of ILO’s Global Wage Report, Mr. Houngbo noted that today’s global wage gains...

$20 million appeal to support Palestine labour market

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·November 10, 2023·2 min read

The funding appeal – launched on Thursday in Geneva – will be used to implement a three-phase programme to provide immediate relief and support longer-term job and business recovery, as well as social protection. “The hostilities have resulted in – and continue to cause – both a tragic loss of...

China: ‘Vocational training’ programmes for Tibetans carry risk of forced labour

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·April 27, 2023·1 min read

“Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been ‘transferred’ from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced,” they said in a statement. ‘Cultural and political indoctrination’ They noted that the labour...

Malawi: Child trafficking and forced labour push thousands to work on tobacco farms

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·December 22, 2022·1 min read

“Despite the abolition of the tenancy system, serious concerns persist in relation to risks of trafficking of children and forced labour”, the experts said. “Countries where tobacco companies are headquartered must strengthen action to prevent trafficking for purposes of child and forced labour”. Working towards this end, the experts have...

Young workers have been hit hardest by COVID fallout, says UN labour agency |

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·August 11, 2022·4 min read

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the pandemic has caused many additional problems for 15 to 24-year-olds who’ve experienced “much higher” unemployment losses than older workers since the global health emergency was declared in early 2020. Young women have struggled more than their male counterparts to find work, while...