[Rapport] France: Donner un sens à l'intelligence artificielle : pour une stratégie nationale et européenne

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ladocumentationfrancaise.fr (Mars 2018) Le rapport aborde successivement différentes facettes de l'IA : politique économique, recherche, emploi, éthique, cohésion sociale. Cinq annexes insistent par ailleurs sur des domaines d'intérêt particulier : éducation, santé, agriculture, transport, défense et sécurité.

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Argentina: Destacan la eficacia de la Asignación Universal por Hijo

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lacapital. (31.03.2018) En la sede central de la Ansés, su director ejecutivo, Emilio Basavilbaso, presentó el libro "Análisis y propuestas de mejoras para ampliar la Asignación Universal por Hijo" (AUH), junto con el representante del Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef, por sus siglas en inglés) en la Argentina, Roberto Benes, y la secretaria ejecutiva del Consejo Nacional de Coordinación de Políticas Sociales (Cncps), Gabriela Agosto.

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France: Minimum vieillesse, allocations familiales, énergie… ce qui change au 1er avril

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Le Monde (31.03.2018) Hausse du minimum vieillesse, de la prime à la naissance et des allocations aux familles monoparentales ou nombreuses et modestes, baisse de l’allocation aux parents de jeunes enfants… Voici les principaux changements à compter du 1er avril 

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Zimbabwe: ‘Let’s strive to curb work-related injuries’

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The Herald (12.04.2018) Government has encouraged stakeholders to ensure that occupational safety and health management systems are ingrained within the industries to promote hazardous free working environment

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[Report] ILO: Social protection for indigenous peoples: an essential component of national development strategies

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ILO SocPro (April 2018) Men, women and children from indigenous peoples are estimated
to represent 4.5 per cent of the world’s population (World Bank, 2011).1 They constitute more than 5,000 different groups with distinct cultures, forms of social organization, livelihood strategies, practices, notions of poverty and wellbeing, values, and beliefs profoundly embedded in their collective relationship with the lands and territories that they occupy or use, which is at the heart of their distinct identities. The vast majority, approximately two-thirds of the global indigenous

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No identity crisis for social protection programmes that link with ID agencies

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Development Pathways (24.10.2017) Biometric technology presents a huge opportunity to social protection programmes, in particular the potential to ensure that only eligible programme beneficiaries receive payments. But to fully realise the benefits of biometrics, social protection programmes need to work closely with national identity agencies who are better placed to provide individuals with a unique identity record and can match people with those records, writes Richard Chirchir.

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Commission takes action to better protect workers against cancer-causing chemicals

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Europa (05.04.2018) The Commission proposes to limit workers' exposure to five cancer-causing chemicals, in addition to the 21 substances that have already been limited or proposed to be limited since the beginning of this mandate. Estimates show that today's proposal would improve working conditions for over 1,000,000 EU workers and prevent over 22,000 cases of work-related illness.

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About 2.8 million people die at work every year

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Pravda (10.04.2018) About 2.8 million people die every year worldwide in the workplace, representatives of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) said. Economic losses, according to experts, reach up to four percent of global GDP.
 

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US: A Noisy Workplace Raises Risk of Heart Disease

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Corporate Wellness Magazine (29.03.2018) A study recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published this month in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine has associated high cholesterol and high blood pressure with loud noise at the workplace. Nobel Prize Winner Robert Koch said in 1910 that “One day man will have to fight noise as fiercely as cholera and pest” and studies are beginning to prove this statement right

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Migrants In Labour Markets Are Disadvantaged By Region Of Origin

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socialeurope (10.04.2018) The integration of migrants from outside the EU into society is one of the key challenges that the Union must address to maintain social cohesion and equality. This blog piece looks at how well migrants and their descendants have integrated into the labour markets of EU Member States.

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