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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a crash in international tourism, including in New York City.
UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi

News in Brief 30 June 2021

30 June 2021
News in Brief
  • Rights expert calls for global 'pandemic protection fund'
  • Tourism braces for $2.4 trillion hit to global economy
  • Migrant worker numbers rise globally by five million: ILO
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A migrant worker sews clothes in a factory in western Thailand.
UN Women/Piyavit Thongsa-Ard

Domestic workers among hardest hit by COVID crisis, says UN labour agency

15 June 2021
Economic Development

Domestic workers globally have been among the hardest hit by the COVID crisis, losing more jobs and working hours than other sectors, the UN labour agency ILO said on Tuesday.

Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, speaking at the opening session of the 107th Session of the International Labour Conference. Geneva, 28 May 2018.
ILO/Crozet/Pouteau

Global economic crisis from COVID shows scale of rebuilding

2 June 2021
Interviews

The world will recover from the economic shock of the COVID pandemic, the International Labour Organization (or ILO) said on Wednesday in a new report, but only if poorer nations receive some financial assistance to get back on their feet.

In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, ILO chief Guy Ryder, explains that unlike the last global financial crisis in 2008-9, that affected mainly wealthier countries, the current downturn has hit developing nations hardest.

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Young employees at a tech company in Ankara, Turkey, focus on digital marketing and computer services.
© ILO Photo/Kivanc Ozvardar

News in Brief 2 June 2021

2 June 2021
News in Brief
  • COVID crisis pushing unemployment past 200 million: ILO
  • Staggering health needs emerge in Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Mali coup leaders urged to release president, prime minister
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Men unload sacks of onions from a truck in Bamako, Mali, a landlocked developing country. Their lack of direct access to the vital trade links often result in landlocked countries paying high transport and transit costs.
World Bank/Dominic Chavez

The virus that shut down the world: Economic meltdown

30 December 2020
Economic Development

With millions forced to work from home this year, offices and shops closing as part of containment measures, and travel severely curtailed everywhere, it was inevitable that the economy would suffer. In part five of our look back at 2020, we focus on the seismic effect that COVID-19 has had on the global economy.

Three young women wearing masks are selling medicine on the street during the COVID-19 crisis in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
ILO/Jennifer A. Patterson

COVID-19’s impact on wages is only just getting started, ILO warns

2 December 2020
Economic Development

Global pressure on wages from COVID-19 will not stop with the arrival of a vaccine, the head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned on Wednesday, coinciding with a major report showing how the pandemic had slowed or reversed a trend of rising wages across the world, hitting women workers and the low-paid hardest.

India has announced a nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus.
UN India

Coronavirus could see global unemployment rise by 25 million: ILO in India

25 March 2020
Interviews

A new assessment by the International Labour Organization (ILO) shows the COVID-19 pandemic could increase global unemployment by around 25 million.

ILO is calling for an internationally coordinated policy response, which would be of particular benefit to South Asian countries like India, since a large part of its work force lacks social security and employment benefits.

UN News’s Anshu Sharma spoke to the Director of ILO’s Decent Work Team for South Asia based in the UN’s India office, Dagmar Walter.

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Human resources development and employment centre. This woman is using the centre's database to find employment. Tianjin. China.
ILO/Crozet M.

Global unemployment rate expected to rise by 3.4 million: ILO

12 January 2017
General News

The global unemployment rate is expected to rise by 3.4 million this year, bringing the number of jobless people to just over 201 million.

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Fadela Chaib. (Screen grab from UNifeed Video)

UN Gender Focus: ending violence against women, digital economy and youth unemployment

8 December 2016
UN Gender Focus

Violence against women, the worldwide scourge

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World Youth Skills Day recognizes that fostering the acquisition of skills by youth will empower them to gain access to changing labour markets.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

“Working poverty” pressing issue for youth

15 July 2016
General News

The issue of “working poverty” is a serious problem for young people especially in the developing world, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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