Women’s rights are human rights. But in these troubled times, as our world becomes more unpredictable and chaotic, the rights of women and girls are being reduced, restricted and reversed.

     Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realize their full potential.

GENEVA (7 March 2017) –Today we honour the human rights struggle of millions of women who have demanded respect for their rights and the rights of others. The women’s movement has brought about tremendous change but we must also recognise that progress has been slow and extremely uneven.

Progress has also brought its own challenges. In too many countries, we are now seeing a backlash against women’s rights, a backlash that hurts us all. We need to be alert - the advances of the last few decades are fragile and should nowhere be taken for granted.  

    On 11 February 2017, Mr. Tao Zhan was appointed to the post of Director of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) by the Director-General of UNESCO.

On 20-21 February 2017, the 2nd UK-Russia expert roundtable discussion dedicated to the problem of antimicrobial resistance “Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Action Plans Implementation” will be held at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Moscow. This event is organised by the UK Science & Innovation Network (SIN-Russia) of the British Embassy in Moscow and Department for International Trade in Russia (DIT Russia) in collaboration with the Interregional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (IACMAC) in Smolensk (Russia) and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC). 

Today, we honour the victims of the Holocaust, an incomparable tragedy in human history.

The world has a duty to remember that the Holocaust was a systematic attempt to eliminate the Jewish people and so many others.

It would be a dangerous error to think of the Holocaust as simply the result of the insanity of a group of criminal Nazis.  On the contrary, the Holocaust was the culmination of millennia of hatred, scapegoating and discrimination targeting the Jews, what we now call anti-Semitism.

Tight supply, strong demand boosts energy, metals prices

WASHINGTON, January 24, 2017— The World Bank is forecasting strong gains for industrial commodities such as energy and metals in 2017, due to tightening supply and strengthening demand.  

Economic growth continues to disappoint and deficits in decent work remain widespread

GENEVA (ILO News) - The global unemployment rate is expected to rise modestly from 5.7 to 5.8 per cent in 2017 representing an increase of 3.4 million in the number of jobless people,  a new ILO report shows (table 1).

Olga V. Koulaeva was appointed Director of the ILO Decent Work Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia on 1 November  2016.

Since February 2010, she had served as a Senior Employment Specialist at the ILO DWT/CO for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Ms Koulaeva graduated from the Moscow State University Department of Economics and holds a Ph. D. in Economics. She is fluent in English and Swedish.

Food Price Index remained stable in December amid sharp fall in sugar prices

12 January 2016, Rome - Prices of major food commodities declined for the fifth year in a row in 2016, averaging 161.6 points for the year as a whole, some 1.5 percent below their 2015 levels.