Topics

Child Labour

More than 200 million children in the world today are involved in child labour, doing work that is damaging to his or her mental, physical and emotional development.

Cooperatives

Decent work

Decent work sums up the aspirations of people in their working lives. It involves opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize and participate in the decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men.

Labour inspection and administration

Economic and social development

A new social pillar is needed to support fairness in the emerging global economy. The world’s millennial challenge is to find ways to make the global economy work for the many, not the few.

Employment promotion

Unlocking the enormous potential of enterprises to create decent jobs can help alleviate poor working conditions and provide a route out of poverty.

Employment security

Employment structures are changing, as are working conditions. Underlying the observed changes are the twin pressures for flexibility and security and the search for new ways of balancing them.

Equality and discrimination

Combating discrimination is an essential part of promoting decent work, and success on this front is felt well beyond the workplace.c0078

Forced labour

 At least 12.3 million people around the world are trapped in forced labour. The ILO works to combat the practice and the conditions that give rise to it.

Freedom of association

The right of workers and employers to form and join organizations of their own choosing is an integral part of a free and open society.

Industries and sectors

The ILO conducts research on specific economic sectors, and facilitates information exchange between its constituents on labour and social developments. Sectoral meetings are generally tripartite (equal participation by governments, employers and workers).

Labour law

The ILO is committed to assisting member States in assessing and, where necessary, framing or revising their labour laws.

Labour migration

Half of all migrants (86 million adults) are economically active. The ILO seeks to ensure them decent work through multilateral actions and policies.

Millennium Development Goals

In September 2000, world leaders endorsed the Millennium Declaration, a commitment to work together to build a safer, more prosperous and equitable world. The Declaration was translated into a roadmap setting out eight time-bound and measurable goals to be reached by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Rural development

Skills, Knowledge and Employability

Skills and knowledge are engines of economic growth and social development, and crucial to sustaining productivity and income-earning opportunities.

Tripartism and social dialogue

Through their organizations, workers and employers make tripartism and social dialogue a real life experience by applying them in practice.

Working conditions

Conditions of work and employment, including efforts to adapt working life to the demands of life outside work, are crucial aspects of decent work.

Maritime Labour Convention