22 research outputs found
ILO Director General’s Message on Discrimination
Text of statement on discrimination in the workplace, prepared in May 2003 by Juan Somavia, Director General of the ILO
Reinventing ‘Many Voices’: MacBride and a Digital New World Information and Communication Order
The MacBride Commission Report was arguably one of the most significant multilateral interventions in the history of international communication. This article charts its emergence at the time of deeply contested Cold War politics, coinciding with the rise of the southern voices in the global arena, led by the non-aligned nations. Thirty-five years after the report's publication, has the global media evolved into a more democratic system, demonstrating greater diversity of views and viewpoints? Despite the still formidable power of US-led western media, the article suggests that the globalisation and digitisation of communication has contributed to a multi-layered and more complex global media scene, demonstrating the “rise of the rest”
ILO Director General’s Message on Discrimination
Text of statement on discrimination in the workplace, prepared in May 2003 by Juan Somavia, Director General of the ILO.ILO_Director_General_s_Message28.pdf: 50 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Building an Integrated Framework for Social Development
Juan Somav'a argues that social development must remain a high priority for the international community. The global economy is not reaching enough people. A new major effort is required to develop integrated solutions to the economic and social problems of development. Development (2000) 43, 6–9. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110138