Decent work deficits
The more than 400 delegates, representatives of Governments and workers' and employers' organizations of 35 countries of the Americas, will meet in Lima between 10 and 13 December. They will consider issues such as the impact of globalization on the region, gender and discrimination, the social and labour dimension of regional integration and what the report describes as "decent work deficits", which include deficits in employment and incomes, social protection and social dialogue.
According to the report presented at the meeting, such deficits can be seen in the insufficient supply of jobs for women and men, inadequate social protection, denial of labour rights and failure of social dialogue. At the same time, the ILO calls attention to the "serious crisis affecting a number of countries in the region [that] requires the immediate application of emergency social policies to prevent an explosion of poverty, hunger and despair among millions of unemployed (Argentina and Colombia) and those displaced by violence (Colombia)".
According to Somavia, "We are faced with populations in despair, who cannot understand how their own countries can have come to such a pass and who in many cases feel themselves to be the true pariahs of globalization".
The more than 400 delegates, representatives of Governments and workers' and employers' organizations of 35 countries of the Americas, will meet in Lima between 10 and 13 December. They will consider issues such as the impact of globalization on the region, gender and discrimination, the social and labour dimension of regional integration and what the report describes as "decent work deficits", which include deficits in employment and incomes, social protection and social dialogue.
According to the report presented at the meeting, such deficits can be seen in the insufficient supply of jobs for women and men, inadequate social protection, denial of labour rights and failure of social dialogue. At the same time, the ILO calls attention to the "serious crisis affecting a number of countries in the region [that] requires the immediate application of emergency social policies to prevent an explosion of poverty, hunger and despair among millions of unemployed (Argentina and Colombia) and those displaced by violence (Colombia)".
According to Somavia, "We are faced with populations in despair, who cannot understand how their own countries can have come to such a pass and who in many cases feel themselves to be the true pariahs of globalization".