France: Métiers du numérique : où sont les femmes?

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Franceinfo (11.03.2019) Dans les services informatiques comme dans le métier d’ingénieur, les femmes sont nettement sous-représentées. Pourquoi ne sont-elles pas davantage à travailler dans le numérique ?

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Jamaica: Equity, social protection and growth

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jamaicaobserver (11.93.2019) For FY 2019/20, $20 billion has been allocated across the Government's portfolio of major social protection programmes — a 25 per cent increase from the previous financial year. PATH Conditional Cash Grants will be increased by 16 per cent, while allocations to PATH Transportation, Examination Fees, and School Feeding will increase by 90 per cent, 50 per cent and seven per cent respectively.

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ISSA: New App for Workplace Safety

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SUN News Report (01.03.2019) The app promotes ISSA’s “7 golden rules — for zero accidents and healthy work.” It shows the workplace safety and health status of an organization, according to the agency. The app offers interactive checklists, analyses the results, and gives an overview of the cu

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[Report] OECD: Seize the opportunities of digital technology to improve well-being but also address the risks

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OECD (28.02.2019) Digital technology can improve our lives but it also poses a major risk of widening social inequality and blocking opportunities for people without the skills to navigate the online world safely, according to a new OECD report.

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Canadian groups launch website on preventing occupational diseases

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Safety+Health Magazine (28.02.2019) The Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety has partnered with the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers to develop a new website intended to raise awareness of work-related diseases.

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India: Unorganised workers left to fend for themselves

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dailypioneer (09.03.2019) Universal social security must be ensured for all citizens without discrimination but unfortunately a vast majority of people in unorganised sector are still not covered under social security provisions. The National Commission on Enterprise in Unorganised Sector has calculated that 95 per cent of the work force is engaged in unorganised sector contributing almost 50 per cent to the national GDP but in return, they get nothing out of the national public fund.

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Au Soudan du Sud, l’emploi est le nerf de l’après-guerre

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Le Monde (08.03.2019) Sortir du chaos (3/3). Alors que le chômage est l’une des raisons qui poussent les jeunes à rejoindre les groupes armés, des initiatives les aident à trouver un travail pour reconstruire leur vie.

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International Women’s Day: Work-related gender gaps persist but solutions are clear – new ILO report

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ILO (07.03.2019) A future of work in which women will no longer lag behind men is within reach, but it will take a quantum leap, not just hesitant incremental steps, to get there, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report published for International Women’s Day on 8 March.

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India: Cabinet nod for pact with Germany on occupational safety and health

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The Economic Times (07.03.2019) The Union Cabinet Thursday approved a pact with Germany for cooperation in the field of occupation safety and health. The cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Germany on cooperation in the field of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), an official statement said.

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