Charlotte Beauchamp, former head of ILO Publishing Unit
If you ever struggled trying to explain to your friends and family what are labour standards and collective bargaining , you know sometimes is hard to express these concepts with accessible and simple language. However, this challenge inspired the former head of the Publishing unit, Charlotte Beauchamp, to create InfoStories, a digital magazine about the world of work.
Alice Merry, ILO Research and Innovation Officer
For low-income families, access to insurance can mean the difference between a minor financial setback and being plunged into poverty. At the ILO, we’re learning more about the most effective ways to provide these forms of insurance all the time. Below are three lessons we learnt in 2015.
Wu Rulian, HIV-OSH, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia
In 2014, during a routine surgery on a patient with liver cancer at a provincial Chinese hospital, Dr. Xu Jun, 35, accidently cut himself with a scalpel.
He got worried. What if he got infected by HIV or hepatitis? He waited for months for a diagnosis, fearing the potential impact of illness on his job and ability to care for his three-year old son. One of his colleagues had previously lost her job after getting infected with HIV.
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