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UNRISD IPI Gilbert Houngbo DG ILO
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Thank you very much and now I will give the floor to our last speaker that represent an organisation that has been built on issues of social justice and not only that, had he lead to get LED, together with President Lula, the establishment of the Global Coalition for Social Justice.
Mr Gilbert Umbo, Director General of the International Labour Organisation, you have the floor.
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I think a, a lot has been said here, so I will also follow me with this will be very quite short and and increasely.
Of course, we heard a lot about the the wealth inequalities and I want to read it bring back as well as strong as possible the income dimension of the inequality, particularly as we are concerned the the labour income dimension which we know is quite critical, which is the major part of the income related inequalities.
And when we hear the example of the workers that woke up in the morning at the four and not being able, it just make the good example on on that.
And we have also heard, of course, several so strong economic professors.
We have a lot of numbers.
So I don't want to add the too much metrics.
However, we need to also keep in mind that our research demonstrate that we have more than 700 million women that are off the labour market and 3/4 of the unpaid jobs are carried out by women.
So you could also see those are the major contributor to the, to the inequalities and needless to also touch on the, the, the, the dimension of the youth as as as well.
So when we we look at that, obviously this is one of the major work that we are focusing on in terms of the Coalition for for social Injustice, which has LED to this decision ongoing process of creating together with Oxford University and the SOAS and the Network of Global Soviet Universities, this Centre for work related Inequalities.
So we believe not only we are a major supporter of the IPI, but that will complement very well the work that the IPS is is trying to to achieve.
The other point that for us is quite important and several of you mention it is the necessity to link the research, the data with the policy, with the policy making so that we could see at the end what is happening down there on, on, on that into the people's day-to-day lives.
This is what is going to be crucial as we move, we move forward.
I also wanted to thank last year, last year in our International Labour conference, one of the key discussion on the, the DG, our report is about the, the Nexus about job, the job to guide and the economic growth.
And that so it was very good to hear from, from you making also that, that Nexus which definitely fit to the inequalities.
So from from the IO perspective, not only we really support this initiative, we welcome it more than that, we really want to make sure that the major part of the income inequality, IE the labour income inequality and we provide credible data to feed into the global work that we're trying to do.
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