• Young workers at risk

    Young workers suffer from injury and illness on the job at far higher rates than their adult counterparts. Explore this InfoStory to learn more about occupational safety and health for young people.

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  • Decent Work pledge for Occupied Palestinian Territory

    First visit by an ILO Director-General to the Palestinian Territory in two decades aims to consolidate cooperation between the Organization and Palestinian partners.

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  • Persistent and growing inequality threatens global growth

    In a statement to the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder warned that high and rising levels of inequality are impeding inclusive and sustainable development. Looking to the future of work, he also called for a focus on decent work to confront the challenges of demography, technology, and climate change.

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  • Bosnia: A partnership to create jobs

    Our impact, their voices

    Local employment partnerships have proved to be a promising approach to create jobs for the long-term unemployed and provide businesses with a skilled workforce in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  1. The ILO centenary

Focus on

  1. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

News

  1. Decent work

    ILO, Tokyo 2020 sign agreement to promote decent work in run-up to the Games

Programmes and results

  1. ILO's flagship programmes

    The ILO has integrated many of its existing technical projects into five flagship programmes, designed to enhance the efficency and impact of its development cooperation with constituents on a global scale.

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    Slideshow

    Promoting Better Work for women in Vietnam’s garment sector

    The Better Work programme helps improve working conditions in garment factories, while making the sector more competitive.

Cooperation

  1. Partnering for Development

    With over 50 years of experience in development cooperation, the ILO today has a bigger portfolio than ever with some 600 active programmes and projects in more than 100 countries.

  2. ILO projects worldwide

    Discover the new ILO Development Cooperation Dashboard

  3. Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme

    More jobs and better infrastructure for Lebanon

ArtWorks

  1. Artists engagement programme

    Artworks brings together artists to raise awareness, promote fundamental rights and advocate for social change on world of work issues.

World of work trends

  1. World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends for Women 2018 – Global snapshot
  2. World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2018
  3. World Social Protection Report 2017-19
  4. Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017
  5. 2017 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery and Child Labour
  6. World Employment and Social Outlook 2017
  7. Global Wage Report 2016/17

Resources for constituents

  1. 107th Session of the International Labour Conference

  2. 332nd Session of the Governing Body

  3. Upcoming sectoral tripartite meetings

  4. Programme of ILO meetings 2018-19

  5. Bureau for Workers' Activities

  6. Bureau for Employers' Activities

Campaign

  1. 50forFreedom

    Support the international treaty to end modern slavery

Learn more

  1. Trainings and courses

    ILO Training Centre

    Global provider of training for the world of work

  2. ILO Helpdesk for business on international labour standards

  3. Skills for employment knowledge sharing platform

Multimedia library

Apps  ¦  Photos  ¦  Videos  ¦  Audio

Director-General

  1. Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

    Persistent and growing inequality threatens global growth

Blog Work in Progress

  1. Digital labour platforms

    On-demand … and organized!

Infostories

  1. The gender gap in employment: What's holding women back?

World of Work magazine

  1. Special 2017 issue

    Migration should be a choice

    This year’s edition of the World of Work magazine highlights themes discussed by the ILO’s 106th International Labour Conference, including migration.