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ILO
By Chinyere Bassey
Lagos, Feb. 23, 2017 (NAN) The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is to focus on how to come up with policy alternatives that can deliver decent work opportunities to the people.
ILO Director-General (DG), Guy Ryder, said on Thursday said that the stability and success of the societies depended on achieving a decent work.
“We need solutions that lead away from conflict and toward recovery, to economic growth with social progress. Solutions that build institutions guided by labour standards that guarantee rights at work.
“We have the challenge of bridging the social and economic gaps which have arisen as a result of growing inequality,’’ Ryder said.
He said that presently there was global uncertainty, poverty and conflict which had continued to blight too many people’s lives, while more prosperous societies had seen inequalities widened.
The ILO director-general said that globalisation held out the promise of an era of prosperity but the benefits had been unevenly shared.
He said that ironically, while the world had become far better connected than ever before, unbridgeable social and economic gaps were opening up.
“Millions of people feel left behind and left out. They feel the absence of social justice in their daily lives; children without secured future, parents without decent jobs and a general feeling of abandonment.
“A sense of injustice prevails in many quarters. The consequences for communities, societies and economies are grave,’’ he said.
Ryder said that the lack of decent jobs and the fear that aspirations for a better life would remain unfulfilled was a force driving people’s worries and feeding uncertainty.
He said that the ILO was re-committing to action in support of fair and inclusive societies that build strong foundation of peace. (NAN)
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(Edited by Fela Fashoro/Adeleye Ajayi)