This paper aims to assist governments, social partners and stakeholders in their efforts to regulate labour migration and protect migrant workers. It provides a comprehensive set of rights-based guidelines and principles so as a global compilation of good practices on labour migration developed by governments and social partners.
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"Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people — something that's easy to forget at a time of great economic uncertainty. But it has left out billions more.We need a more creative capitalism: an attempt to stretch the reach of market forces so that more companies can benefit from doing work that makes more people better off. We need new ways to bring far more people into the system — capitalism — that has done so much good in the world" Bill Gates says
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'Drawing on evidence of labour conditions in India, the author, Jens Lerche, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, contends that the ILO should broaden its working definition of forced labour to encompass many of large number of modern forms, such as migrant bonded labour, which rely more on economic compulsion than extra-economic coercion and are spread relentlessly by the forces globalization.'
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Maria Isabel Rodriguez is a 57 years old women living in Medellin. For 2 years she has been using the ICTs in daily life. She realized that she needed to learn more about these new technologies to improve her business, and also to learn about all the city´s programs. Nowadays, she does all her accounting on her computer, checks e-mails and even chats with her younger brothers.
Maria Isabel also won the Seed Capital Contest in Medellin, which helped her to start her own business. She received s more...
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María Isabel Rodríguez es una mujer de 57 años que vive en las estribaciones del barrio San Blas en Manrique, su carácter tiene esa calidez propia de las matronas antioqueñas que hace sentir a todos los que la tratan como si la conocieran desde hace mucho, su mirada se oculta tras unos anteojos bien cuidados que hablan de una enfermedad recién adquirida, no muy grave y tal vez progresiva.
Ella ya tiene dos años de experiencia en el manejo de las herramientas web. Su primer acercamiento a more...
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In the framework of the Aid for Trade regional meetings organised by the Regional Development Banks, the International Trade Centre (ITC) is organising events which provide an opportunity to take stock of successful initiatives in the role of private sector on the formulation of trade policy and regulations, public-private sector partnerships to build trade-related infrastructure, overcoming supply-side constraints and trade finance.
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The International Trade Centre aims to enhance the export potential of developing countries by giving them free access to market analysis tools that help to identify market and product diversification opportunities.
“The aim of this initiative is to strengthen the ability of companies from developing countries to
direct their products to the right markets and so increase exports and promote development, ” said ITC Executive Director Patricia R. Francis.
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