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Join the Global Call to Action for Decent Work for All

31st October 2007

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Around the world, thousands of workers today are launching a Call to Action for governments and global leaders to keep the promises they made a year ago to create decent work for all. The promise was part of a July 2006 United Nations ministerial declaration, and several international workers' groups in Lisbon, Portugal, are sponsoring the Decent Work/Decent Life action. The need for decent work is clear:
  • Half of the world’s workers earns less than $2 a day.
  • 12.3 million women and men work in slavery.
  • 200 million children under the age of 15 work instead of going to school.
  • 2.2 million people die due to work-related accidents and diseases every year.
Add to this massive global unemployment the lack of a social safety net for the majority of workers employed in the "informal economy" (work that is not taxed or regulated) and the violation of workers' rights, and the need for decent work for all is evident.

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