2019

1. 

   ILO100 in Viet Nam

   ILO Viet Nam has new address

   10 December 2019,

   ILO Viet Nam moved in the Green One United Nations House to join the UN family in Viet Nam in the last month of 2019.

2. The International Disability Day 2019

   Building inclusive workplaces in Indonesia

   09 December 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia

   In conjunction with the commemoration of the International Disability Day 2019, the ILO continues to promote equal employment opportunities and inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities.

3. 

   Press release

   ILO holds Job Fair for persons with disabilities

   04 December 2019,

   ILO/ LEED+ or the Local Empowerment through Economic Development and Reconciliation Project launched in September 2018 in Sri Lanka. Building on more than eight years of work by ILO and multiple stakeholders, the programme promotes resilient, inclusive and sustainable growth strategies for conflict-affected communities.

4. Migration

   Migrating in ASEAN with a mobile phone: Gender gaps are not only in migrants’ salaries, but also in digital access

   29 November 2019,

   The increasingly widespread access to and use of the Internet in the ASEAN region has meant that more migrant workers are now seeking information using social media platforms. However, obtaining accurate and reliable information is still a challenge, not to mention gender gaps in digital access that women migrant workers face.

5. 

   ILO National Dialogue on Future of Work

   Government, employers and worker leaders emphasize on tripartite consultation, skills building and ratification of ILO Conventions on minimum age and forced labour

   28 November 2019,

6. 

   ILO100 in Viet Nam

   Future of work is the choice of Viet Nam

   27 November 2019,

   The 2019 Viet Nam Labour Forum agrees that Viet Nam is on the right track on its way towards an upper middle income country. A new ILO report shows the country is creating more middle-skilled and high-skilled jobs.

7. 

   Press release

   Let them fly, don’t clip their wings !

   26 November 2019,

   Ridma Weerawardena is the latest musician from around the world to join the ILO’s Global Music Against Child Labour Initiative. The song is his contribution to the global and Sri Lankan fight to end child labour

8. 

   Press release

   Cotton picking women and adolescent girls of Southern Punjab sensitized on child labour, forced labour and OSH

   25 November 2019, Southern Punjab, Pakistan

   ILO organised series of five farm level awareness raising seminars cum workshops on child labour, forced labour and OSH for the cotton picking women and adolescent girls workers of Southern Punjab under its project “Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour in the Cotton, Textile and Garment Value Chains: an Integrated Approach” Co-funded by the European Union.

9. 

   © Stuart Price / UN Photo 2019

   Social Protection

   More than 500 billion dollars a year needed to ensure basic levels of social protection worldwide

   25 November 2019,

   A new ILO report highlights critical financing gaps in social protection and provides policy recommendations on how these gaps could be closed.

10. 

    Natural Disasters

    Earthquake victims get gravity-fed water supply in Papua New Guinea

    22 November 2019,

    A ILO-Japan funded partnership infrastructure project is helping earthquake-affected communities in the Nipa district to access clean drinking water.