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Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) held a side event on the occasion of the Fifth Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (COP 5)that took place in Geneva from 20 to 24 June 2011. The Conference was attended by more than 500 representatives from countries all over...

A global artistic competition designed to encourage youth to creatively express their views on co-operative principles has been announced today by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) on the United Nations International Day of Co-operatives on July 2. The competition launches at the ICA General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico in November.A...

The 2nd of July 2011 the 17th UN International Day of Cooperatives “Youth, the future of cooperative enterprise” was celebrated. This year's theme highlights how the cooperative model of enterprise can successfully empower youth. It links to the celebration of the United Nations International Year of Youth, which encourages dialogue and understanding across generations...

On the occasion of the Fifth Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention a side event on “Vulnerable groups and pesticides exposure:  Joining forces to reduce hazardous child labour in agriculture"is being organized by FAO and the ILO (Wednesday 22 June 2011, 13:00-15:00, Centre International de Conferences, Genève). The Rotterdam Convention promotes shared...

The ILO estimates that of the world’s 215 million child labourers, 115 million are involved in hazardous work, including 41 million girls and 74 million boys. Hazardous work is among the worst forms of child labour. It is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children. The highest concentration...

On May 4th a FAO-ILO joint teaching session on "Rural Employment" for the Masters program in Applied Labour Economics for Development (MALED) was held at the International Training Centre(ITC-ILO) School of Development in Turin, Italy. The course featured contemporary global labour market challenges,  through the perspective of rural employment and decent work.   More specifically, rural employment for food security...

Policy decision-makers from countries throughout North Africa gathered in Tunis, Tunisia,from 2 to 4 May 2011, for a policy seminar on the current rise in food prices. The event, organized by FAO in collaboration with the Union du Maghreb Arab (UMA), was aimed at convening decision-makers from government ministries (agriculture, trade and finance) in order to exchange experiences...

The ILO Governing Body at its March 2011 session issued a Report confirming ILO’s mandate and capacity in rural areas, calling to strengthen further ILO’s work targeting decent work deficits that impede rural communities to realize their potential as engines of growth, good jobs creation, sustainable and equitable development, and crisis resilience. The...

A training course on child labour in agriculture: "Harvesting a future without child labour: eliminating harmful practices in agriculture" will be held from 9-13 May 2011 at the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO), Turin, Italy. This one-week course takes a broad view in looking at child labour in agriculture...

The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) has declared, during its last Executive Council held in January 2009 in Addis Ababa, the years 2009-2019 as the decade of youth development in Africa. The decade is an opportunity to advance the agenda of youth development in all member...