Education workers need more support if they are to provide the additional learning needed for building a more resilient and sustainable recovery from the pandemic.
Date Time
Help educators now so they can help build a better future of work, says ILO
There is an urgent need to invest in education and in training and decent work for education workers, so they can contribute to the post-COVID-19 recovery, delegates at an ILO technical meeting on the future of work in the education sector have said.
Effective lifelong learning and quality education for all are essential for a better future of work. If teachers, trainers and support workers are to fill this need and pave the way to address the challenges that lie ahead, they will need to master new technologies and learning techniques, understand the skills’ needs of the labour market and receive support to deal with their expanded responsibilities.
Date Time
First ever virtual International Labour Conference opens
The 109th International Labour Conference (ILC) has opened, the first to take place virtually due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Omar Zniber, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, was elected President of the Conference in its opening session, on 20 May 2021. He described his election as “a source of pride” for his country and the African region.
“As it is often said, the International Labour Conference is the global parliament of labour, affording governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations of Member States a unique opportunity to hold tripartite discussions about social and labour issues, as well as matters related to the world of work,” he said.
For the first time in its history the International Labour Conference is taking place online and will be divided into two segments during the course of the year.
by Bajan Reporter / March 5th, 2021
Ambassador
Chad Blackman, Barbados’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva, held talks with the recently appointed UNCTAD Acting Secretary-General,
Ms. Isabelle Durant.
Ms. Durant, whose substantive post is Deputy Secretary-General, was appointed acting Secretary-General on 16 February 2021, following the resignation of
Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, which took effect on 15 February 2021.
One of Ms. Durant’s early actions on assumption of her new responsibilities was to meet with Ambassador Blackman to discuss the way forward for the UNCTAD 15 Conference, which is scheduled to be held in Barbados from 3 to 8 October 2021.
The two sides have committed to work in close partnership towards the success of the Conference in these challenging times.