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Equality at work: tackling the challenge

This ILO report provides a global picture of job-related discrimination, citing both progress and failures in the struggle to fight discrimination ranging from traditional forms such as sex, race or religion, to newer forms based on age, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status and disability.

This second Global Report on discrimination examines emerging issues in patterns of workplace discrimination and inequalities. It also looks at recent policy responses and outlines the ILO's experience and achievements to date and the challenges it faces.

The report highlights the need for better enforcement of legislation against discrimination, as well as non-regulatory initiatives by governments and enterprises. It also points out the need for equipping the social partners to be more effective in making equality a reality at the workplace. The report puts forward other proposals for future action, including making equality a mainstream objective of the ILO's Decent Work Country Programmes.

This webpage provides a link to download the report.

 

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