"GUY RYDER"

Make bold environmental action central focus of post pandemic economic recovery, speakers urge as General Assembly holds first ever global biodiversity summit.

Marking World Patient Safety Day, the World Health Organization released a ‘Health Worker Safety Charter’ calling on governments and healthcare leaders to take action to better protect health workers and patients. WHO

For the first time in the history of the International Labour Organization (ILO), an International Labour Convention on the worst forms of child labour has been ratified by all Member States. ILO

More than 50 Heads of State and government as well as the heads of a number of UN and international agencies are taking part in series of global discussions on COVID-19 and the World of Work, taking place online 7-9 July. ILO

At the opening of a global summit today (07 Jul), the head of the International Labour Organization Guy Ryder said the COVID-19 pandemic generated a “world of work crisis of quite unprecedented proportions.” ILO

Mher Margaryan, Vice-President of ECOSOC (Armenia), chairs a discussion to help prepare the thematic reviews of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), which takes place between 7 and 16 July.

The high-level meeting on poverty eradication on the theme "Trends, options and strategies in poverty eradication across the world" marks the formal inauguration of the Alliance for Poverty Eradication.

The number of working hours lost across the world in the first half of 2020 was significantly worse than previously estimated, while the highly uncertain recovery in the second half of the year will not be enough to go back to pre-pandemic levels, even in the best scenario, and risks seeing continuing large-scale job losses, warns the International Labour Organization (ILO). ILO

Almost one in six young people have stopped working since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic while those who remain employed have seen their working hours cut by 23 per cent, says the International Labour Organization. ILO

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.