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  1. A Challenging Market Becomes More Challenging: Jordanian Workers, Migrant Workers and Refugees in the Jordanian Labour Market

    12 June 2017

    How can Jordan increase employment among its citizens? How can Syrian refugees be incorporated into the labour market without displacing Jordanians? How can the government ensure decent working conditions for all workers? A new ILO study, based on comprehensive primary data gathering in the fall of 2016, looks at ways to address these challenges.

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    "In conflicts and disasters, protect children from child labour"

    12 June 2017

    “Children in areas affected by conflict and disasters are among the most vulnerable. No child must be left behind,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder in his statement for World Day Against Child Labour.

  3. ILO launches report on challenges in the Jordanian labour market

    Report aims to provide practical solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing Jordanian, migrant and Syrian refugee workers in Jordan.

  4. ILO and Oman pledge to continue advancing decent work in the Sultanate

    09 June 2017

    The ILO and tripartite partners sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the sidelines of the International Labour Conference in Geneva to develop new Oman Decent Work Country Programme for 2017-2019.

  5. Statistical and actuarial social security workshop for senior Iraqi officials

    The workshop objective is to strengthen the capacities of the Iraqi social security institution to perform the actuarial review of the Iraqi Social Security Scheme.

  6. ILO head calls for the much needed greening of the world of work

    05 June 2017

    “We need the right policies to make the transition happen and to make it just,” said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder at the opening session of the 106th International Labour Conference.

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    A greener future will not be decent by definition, but by design

    05 June 2017

    "Let’s not just mark World Environment Day. Let’s make it a reason to put our political will into action. The future of our jobs, and of our children, relies on it," says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.

  8. ILO to mark World Day against Child Labour: In conflicts and disasters, protect children from child labour

    04 June 2017

    This year, World Day Against Child Labour on 12 June focuses on the impact of conflicts and disasters on child labour. In times of conflict, in times of disaster, when livelihoods are disrupted, basic services are lost and people can be forced from their homes, entire families become more vulnerable.

  9. Introducing Lebanese farmers to new varieties of potatoes and wider markets

    01 June 2017

    An ILO initiative saw the development of a demoplot in north Lebanon to support change of practices among potato farmers towards better and higher-standard products that are acceptable for EU export, in accordance with Global Good Agriculture Practices (GlobalGAP) standards. The ILO and its partners embarked on a unique project to experiment with new varieties of potatoes, and open up new markets for commerce.

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    ILO calls for urgent action to provide decent work for Palestinian workers

    31 May 2017

    Five decades of occupation have created pervasive unemployment and a fragmented and ineffective labour market in the occupied Arab territories, rendering the reactivation of the peace process an urgent necessity, an ILO annual report says.