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Global progress on social justice slowed by persistent inequalities, new ILO report warns
GENEVA (ILO News) – Despite major gains in education, poverty reduction and productivity over the past three decades, entrenched inequalities, fragile trust in institutions and slow progress in key areas continue to hold back social justice worldwide, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.The study, The state of social justice: A work in progress, published ahead of the Second World Summit for Social Development in Doha in November and marking 30 years since the landmark 1995 Copenhagen Summit on Social Development, finds that while the world is wealthier, healthier and better educated than in 1995, the benefits have not been evenly shared and progress in reducing inequality has stalled.Key achievements since 1995 include halving the rate of child labour among 5- to 14-year-olds (from 20 to 10 per cent), reducing extreme poverty from 39 to 10 per cent, raising primary school completion rates by 10 percentage points, and achieving, for the first time, social protection coverage for over half of the world’s population.However, the report highlights stark and persistent deficits:*71 per cent of a person’s earnings are still determined by circumstances of birth such as country and sex;*informality has fallen by only two percentage points in two decades and still affects 58 per cent of workers;*the gender labour force participation gap has narrowed by just three percentage points since 2005 and remains at 24 per cent;*at current rates, it will take a century to close the global gender pay gap.Read more
