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Record French jobless claims hurt Hollande
By Agencies Job Market Trend Report
France
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French Unemployment
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President Francois Hollande
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International Labour Organisation
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Youth unemployment
Monthly increase in jobless claims eases to 10pc year-on-year but still hits all-time high in July. Although data show signs of youth unemployment falling, Hollande remains under pressure to fulfil promise to boost jobs by end-2013
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86,000 children work in Madagascar mines
By Agencies Job Market Trend Report
Child Labour
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International Labor Organisation
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ILO
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mining
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Madagascar
An ILO report says that 86,000 children of the 438,000 kids in the southwestern region – or 19.63pc – work for pay, while 28pc of Madagascar children ranging from five years old to 17 are working, mostly in household work, mining, carriage, prostitution, farming and restaurant service
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Cambodia garment worker conditions worsening
By Agencies Job Market Trend Report
Cambodia
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International Labour Organisation
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ILO
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Garment Industry
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Worker Safety
The International Labour Organisation says Cambodia is failing to make progress in key areas such as worker and fire safety and the use of child labour, particularly in the garment industry
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Jobs exclusion of disabled cuts GDP by 3-7pc: UN
By Agencies Job Market Trend Report
Disabled
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UN
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GDP
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Handicapped
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International Labor Organisation
Poor and middle-income countries suffer 3-7pc drop in their GDPs as a result of the exclusion of persons with disabilities, according to UN report
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