Rights in Myanmar
16 November 2012
As US President Barack Obama heads to Myanmar, the ILO’s liaison officer in Yangon discusses the various changes this Southeast Asian country has been going through.
International Day of the Girl Child
10 October 2012
The world must make sure that girl children find their rightful places at home, school and, as they grow up, at work - on equal terms with boys.
News
27 June 2012
The government has announced it is scaling up the campaign to put an end to the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
News
03 October 2011
The United States Department of Labor (USDOL) has signed two cooperative agreements granting the International Labour Organization USD 17.5 million to support activities to combat child and forced labour around the world.
News
21 June 2011
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlighted the impact of pesticides exposure on child labourers in agriculture during an international conference which was held in Geneva on Wednesday, 22 June 2011.
Global Child Labour Conference, The Hague, 10-11 May 2010
10 May 2010
Amid signs that global efforts to combat child labour are losing momentum, more than 450 delegates from 80 countries have gathered here today calling for a re-energized international campaign to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
Child labour
29 March 2010
IPEC’s activities have directly benefited some 300,000 children during this period, either through preventive measures or by rescuing them from child labour practices. Another 52 million children were indirectly benefited by the programme’s work.
International cooperation
08 October 2009
The International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) has welcomed the award of the US Department of Labour of $59 million in new grants to combat child labour in 19 countries around the world. A large part of these funds are to support ILO-IPEC country projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where despite the significant progress in the past years in combating child labour, millions of children are still forced to work at the expense of their health, education and future.
The 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP)
12 August 2009
The first draft text of an international labour standard in the form of a Recommendation on HIV/AIDS and the world of work has been released by the ILO. Based on the discussions held at the International Labour Conference in Geneva this June, the draft text of the human rights instrument has been sent to member States for tripartite consultations.
News
23 July 2009
The agreement signed by Germany and the International Labour Organization is part of a project in line with the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention No. 29.