Press releases

2012

1. Largest Rice Mill in Vavuniya North Re-opens

   26 March 2012

   A significant step in the socio-economic recovery of Vavuniya North took place on 24 January 2012, with the official handing over of the re-equipped Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MPCS) Vavuniya North Rice Mill in Nedunkerny.

2. Promote growth of productive employment in provinces, says new ILO report

   21 March 2012

   JAKARTA (ILO News): While the world economy still struggles to recover from the economic crisis, Indonesia has weathered the crisis better than neighbouring countries and its economic growth is expected to accelerate in the coming years.

3. Examining conditions of domestic workers and child domestic workers in North Sumatra

   21 March 2012

   MEDAN (ILO News): The great majority of domestic workers are female with low educational levels; they mainly come from poor families in rural communities. Apart from adult domestic workers, one of the most common child labour forms found in Indonesia is child domestic labour.

4. Providing better economic protection to Indonesian migrant workers

   19 March 2012

   JAKARTA (ILO News): Indonesian migrant workers and their families need to have a good understanding about the financial implications of migration, including the earnings, costs and deductions inherent in placement and employment overseas, as well as hazards and conditions. Financial education plays an important role in enabling Indonesian migrant workers and their families to administer, save and invest the earnings which migrant workers remit to their families on a regular basis throughout their employment overseas.

5. Examining conditions of domestic workers and child domestic workers in South Sulawesi

   19 March 2012

   MAKASSAR (ILO News): To address issues related to domestic workers and child domestic workers and as an effort to provide recognition to domestic workers, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and SmartFM Makassar, a leading radio station in Makassar, will organize an interactive talkshow, “Problems and Solutions on Domestic Workers and Child Domestic Workers in South Sulawesi” on Monday, 19 March 2012, at Krakatau Ballroom, Horison Hotel, Makassar, South Sulawesi.

6. Viet Nam to host ASEAN seminar on unemployment protection and employability

   16 March 2012

   HANOI (ILO News) – Strategies to protect workers against unemployment, help them find better work will be reviewed at an ILO-ASEAN Seminar in Ho Chi Minh City, from 20 to 22 March 2012.

7. Examining conditions of domestic workers and child domestic workers in West Java

   15 March 2012

   BANDUNG (ILO News): According to an ILO study in 2004, there were an estimated 2,593,399 domestic workers in Indonesia; of these, 1.4 million domestic workers were estimated to work in Java alone. The great majority of domestic workers are female with low educational levels; they mainly come from poor families in rural communities in Indonesia.

8. ILO Launches video contest for young people

   14 March 2012

   BANGKOK (ILO News) – The ILO is launching a video contest for young people (aged 18 to 29 years) to allow them to show how the global jobs crisis is affecting their lives. Three winners will be invited to Geneva (all expenses paid) to attend the ILO Youth Employment Forum, to be held from 23 to 25 May 2012, where they will have the opportunity to present their videos.

9. Examining ratification of international migrant workers instruments

   13 March 2012

   JAKARTA (ILO News): As the second largest sending country, some 700,000 documented Indonesian migrant workers leave the country for work abroad, primarily in East and South East Asia as well as the Middle East. Of these, 78 per cent work as domestic workers. In 2009, around 4.3 million Indonesians were estimated to be working abroad.

10. International Women’s Day: ILO – APINDO to launch the Employers’ Guideline on Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

    08 March 2012

    JAKARTA (Joint Press Release): Prevention of harassment in the workplace is both an international and national concern. It is internationally agreed that sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination and is recognized as a violation of human rights. Sexual harassment at work can happen to any worker at any workplace—offices, factories, plantations and farms, small and large enterprises.

11. Examining conditions of domestic workers and child domestic workers in East Java

    07 March 2012

    SURABAYA (ILO News): Domestic workers also represent the single largest group of female salaried workers toiling away in households of others in their own country or abroad. Despite of the importance of the role of domestic workers, domestic work is still not recognized as work.

12. Tuvalu ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

    06 March 2012

    The Government of Tuvalu deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). Tuvalu, which became an ILO member in 2008, is the fifth member State from the Asia-Pacific region – after Australia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Singapore – to have ratified the landmark Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.

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    ILO and the Embassy of Finland increase support to indigenous peoples in the Philippines

    29 February 2012

    Manila (ILO News): The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Embassy of Finland in Manila agreed to increase support to indigenous peoples in the Philippines, mainly the T’boli and Ubo tribes in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato.

14. Civil society discussed Social Protection Floor in Thailand

    24 February 2012

    (ILO News) Bangkok – Some 100 persons from civil society organizations (CSOs) and networks across Thailand working on issues related to the four guarantees within the Social Protection Floor (SPF) framework met in Bangkok on 23 February 2012. This included the network of older persons, children, HIV and AIDS and informal workers. The Forum was to promote civil society participation in the SPF process.

15. ILO-Bappeda to identify constraints to employment growth in Gorontalo

    17 February 2012

    GORONTALO (Joint Press Release): The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Provincial Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) in Gorontalo will organize a workshop on Employment Diagnostic Analysis (EDA) from 21 – 23 February 2012 in Gorontalo.

16. Lao PDR launched first Decent Work Country Programme

    16 February 2012

    ILO NEWS) Vientiane - Representatives of the Lao Government, Lao workers' and employers' organizations and the ILO have signed the Lao PDR's first Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP).

17. Dhaka: ILO delegation meets trade union leaders and union activists trained by an ILO-ACTRAV Project in Bangladesh

    12 February 2012

18. Dhaka: ILO Delegation meets with Bangladesh Ministers

    12 February 2012

    An ILO delegation led by the Director of the Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), Mr. Dan Cunniah, met with several Ministers in Bangladesh during a Mission in the country from 12 to 14 February 2012.

19. ILO – Union Confederations release a new study on workers’ perception on sustainable enterprises in Indonesia

    08 February 2012

    JAKARTA (ILO News): The International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the four trade union confederations (KSPSI Pasar Minggu, KSPSI Kalibata, KSBSI and KSPI) will release a new survey titled “Workers’ Perception on the Factors Supporting Sustainable Enterprises in Indonesia” on Thursday, 9 February 2012, at Sari Pan Pacific Hotel, Jakarta.

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    Child & bonded labour in Afghanistan's brick kilns. New Survey highlights obstacles to ending practice.

    07 February 2012

    KABUL (ILO News) – A new report on bonded labour in Afghan brick kilns found more than half of the workers surveyed were children, with the majority of these workers under the age of 14.