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Abstract/Sommario: This issue of the ILO magazine focuses on jobs recession and also features stories from the world of work: ageing population, migration, gender equality and youth unemployment.

Abstract/Sommario: The report highlights key gender gaps and obstacles to decent work for women. It explores the structural barriers, including unpaid care work, that shape the nature and extent of women’s engagement in paid employment, and examines how laws, policies and practices in certain countries have addressed them. The report also outlines the measures that can and should be taken to seize the opportunities presented by the changing world of work.

Abstract/Sommario: The first ever WHO/World Bank World report on disability reviews evidence about the situation of people with disabilities around the world. Following chapters on understanding disability and measuring disability, the report contains topic-specific chapters on health; rehabilitation; assistance and support; enabling environments; education; and employment. Within each chapter, there is a discussion of the barriers confronted, and case studies showing how countries have succeeded in addr ...; [Leggi tutto...] The first ever WHO/World Bank World report on disability reviews evidence about the situation of people with disabilities around the world. Following chapters on understanding disability and measuring disability, the report contains topic-specific chapters on health; rehabilitation; assistance and support; enabling environments; education; and employment. Within each chapter, there is a discussion of the barriers confronted, and case studies showing how countries have succeeded in addressing these by promoting good practice. In its final chapter, the report offers nine concrete recommendations for policy and practice which if put in place could lead to real improvements in the lives of people with disability.

La prima relazione sulla disabilità realizzata della Banca Mondiale dell’OMS sottolinea la situazione delle persone disabili nel mondo. Ad alcuni capitoli dedicati alla comprensione e alla valutazione della disabilità, ne seguono altri di approfondimento su specifiche materie: salute; riabilitazione; assistenza e supporto; ambienti favorevoli; educazione e impiego. In ciascun capitolo troviamo una discussione sulle barriere rilevate e studi di caso che rilevano come i vari paesi siano riusciti ad affrontare tali problematiche promuovendo buone pratiche. Nel capitolo finale, la relazione offre nove raccomandazioni concrete per le politiche e le azioni che, se messe in atto, potrebbero realmente migliorare la vita delle persone con disabilità.

Abstract/Sommario: Based on the results of the Ninth International Symposium on Working Time (Paris, 26-28 February 2004), this publication provides an exploration of current developments in working time in the industrialized world; how those developments vary in different countries and under different sets of socio-economic circumstances; and the public and enterprise policies that are best suited to addressing these developments.