Already there are extremely positive echoes about the work you have been doing over the last couple of days. It is most important to come together with our different backgrounds, to pool our experience and reflect on how we can really make a difference. Everywhere work is central to the lives of women and men.
Work takes on another dimension when mental health issues are involved.
People with problems may have to stop working - or, as you know only too well, they may go on working without being able to acknowledge the situation. Prejudices may bar them from work or working conditions may be part of the problem. I firmly believe that the bottom line of economic activity is how it translates into the quality of people's lives. Work is about people and it depends on people so that mental health and illness are workplace issues. Our view is that there is a glaring deficit of decent work in today's global economy.