All ILO Newsroom content
March 2024
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Our impact, their voices
“I am a resilient entrepreneur and a determined mother”
07 March 2024
On International Women’s Day, we are sharing an inspiring entrepreneurial journey of Wegden, a Sudanese refugee in Egypt supported by ILO’s entrepreneurship development training programme.
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© ILO 2024
Maritime sector
ILO and IMO recommend new steps against shipboard violence, harassment, and sexual assault
06 March 2024
The organizations’ recommendations include amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, a new IMO mandatory training for seafarers, and a joint IMO/ILO international awareness campaign.
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© Esteban Benites / Unsplash 2024
ILOSTAT blog
Making labour statistics work for women: Recent developments and the way ahead
04 March 2024
In this blog, we highlight key developments which have greatly enhanced the visibility of women’s work within labour statistics, and the relevance of labour statistics to women’s work. Taken together, these changes help to provide a much more complete view of the world of work.
February 2024
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Article
Robotics and breaking gender barriers in technology
29 February 2024
The changing world of work due to technological advances provided opportunity to two best friends in web development and robotic automation.
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© Jerome Bossuet / CIMMYT 2024
Digital economy
Impact of digitalization on work in developing economies revealed by new ILO research
28 February 2024
While many see technology as a key part of the solution to contemporary development challenges, new research points to its limitations in promoting development and structural transformation.
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© ILO/Gita Lingga 2024
Our impact, their voices
Migrant Resource Centre reduces migrant fishers’ vulnerability at sea
27 February 2024
Lack of access to information on migration has made migrant fishers vulnerable to exploitation. The ILO’s 8.7 Accelerator Lab programme and the Indonesian Migrant Worker Union (SBMI) have set up a Migrant Worker Resource Centre (MRC) to better protect Indonesian migrant fishers.
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Article
Navigating hardship: Lebanon's agricultural workers in the absence of social protection
27 February 2024
The story of Tony Al Hazoury and his struggle for a decent life.
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Transforming the teaching profession
UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession puts forward recommendations to allow teachers to become drivers of change in education
26 February 2024
Recommendations from the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession, aimed at transforming the future of the teaching profession, were launched at the 14th Policy Dialogue Forum of the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030.
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Video
ILO and the Government of Ukraine working towards recovery and decent work in the war-torn country
22 February 2024
As the war against Ukraine enters its third year, the ILO and the government of Ukraine are working towards setting the country on a path of recovery and development, through a newly agreed-upon strategy that invests in people, creates quality employment and sustainable enterprises, and improves labour market governance. Watch to find out more.
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© Victor Libuku / ILO 2024
Fishing sector
New guidelines on medical examination of fishers adopted by the International Labour Organization and International Maritime Organization
22 February 2024
The crew of fishing vessels need to be medically fit for their physically demanding work. New medical examination guidelines will improve and standardize these examinations, leading to improved health and safety in the fishing sector.