March 2016

1. Launch of new project to combat unacceptable forms of work in the Thai fishing and seafood industry

   17 March 2016

   The launch and signing ceremony of the EU-funded project, Combatting Unacceptable Forms of Work in the Thai Fishing and Seafood Industry.

December 2015

1. Information Session "Engagement in fragile States in the Africa region"

   2 December 2015

November 2014

1. Making fair migration a reality: Challenges and opportunities

   10 November 2014

   The Government of Italy and the ILO are co-hosting a High-level Interactive Dialogue, in the form of a panel discussion, to facilitate the sharing of views, experiences and practices from various regional perspectives.

October 2014

1. Dignity, Rights and Domestic Work in Arab states: Technical workshop on challenges and good practices

   11 - 13 October 2014

   The ILO’s flagship projects on labour migration and decent work for domestic workers hold a technical workshop to showcase the challenges, opportunities and outcomes stemming from its innovative activities in the region.

2. Tri-National Workers Workshop: Towards Promotion of Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers along the Lesotho-Zimbabwe-South Africa Corridor

   10 - 11 October 2014

   Trade unions and domestic workers’ organizations from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Lesotho developed a common action plan and a strategy to promote migrant domestic workers’ rights at the tri-national workshop, organized in the framework of the EU funded Global Action Programme for Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW).

September 2014

1. Paraguay-Argentina Bi-national Workshop on Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers

   20 - 21 September 2014

   Paraguay and Argentina establish a joint working agenda and develop an action plan on migration in order to promote decent work for migrant domestic workers at the bi-national meeting on Building a Labour Strategy for Decent Work of Migrant Domestic Workers, organized in the framework of the EU funded Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW).

2. Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers: Side Event of the 21st Session of The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

   4 September 2014

   A side event on Decent Work for Migrant Domestic Workers, organized in the framework of the EU funded Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW), was designed as a forum to raise awareness on the human rights challenges faced by migrant domestic workers and discuss the improvement of their organizational capacities and redress mechanisms.

July 2014

1. Training on Fostering the Social and Professional Reintegration of Return Migrants

   14 - 18 July 2014

   An ILO training course providing advanced knowledge with which to foster the contribution to development of return migrants, and offering ground-breaking information about their patterns of social and professional reintegration.

June 2014

1. Obstacles to justice for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon unveiled at report launch

   13 June 2014

   The ILO and local NGO Caritas share findings of a landmark report on the legal, procedural and institutional challenges facing migrant domestic workers seeking justice in Lebanon.

May 2014

1. Regional Training course on international migration for trade union

   26 May - 1 June 2014

   The objective of this collaboration with the ILO International Training Center in Turin is to develop and implement a 5 days training course for Indian trade union leaders on international labour migration and its challenges and opportunities as well as to highlight international trade union solidarity around the issue of migration.