Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General

Persons with disabilities – estimated to be about 15 per cent of the world’s population – constitute a largely untapped pool of talent in the labour market. And, they face a high risk of being marginalized further as the world of work undergoes rapid transformations, including technological developments, climate change and demographic shifts. As a result, existing inequalities may increase, unless countries implement a range of measures to tackle the issue. Continue reading →

Naren Prasad, ILO Senior Economist, RESEARCH

I come from a family of migrants. In the early 1900s, the British colonial authorities brought both of my great-grandfathers from Utter Pradesh in India to Fiji as indentured labourers. Life was considerably tougher for them than it ever has been for me. I can’t imagine how they and many thousands of others coped working endless hours in the sugarcane fields. Continue reading →