Feature articles

2012

1. Enhance job opportunities for people with disabilities for everyone's benefits

   30 November 2012

   Viet Nam has lost 3 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product as the result of the involuntary exclusion of persons with disabilities from the labour market. On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December), the ILO is calling for investment in more effective inclusion strategies that can yield returns to society and benefit everyone. By Tran Quynh Hoa, ILO Country Office for Viet Nam

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   Tourism benefits Viet Nam’s rural poor

   01 November 2012

   Inland hilltribe villagers in Quang Nam province have increased their earnings by developing products such as traditional weavings, spices, tea gift baskets and home stay services for tourists, with the help of an ILO project and funding from the Luxembourg Government. By Tran Quynh Hoa, ILO Country Office for Viet Nam.

3. 

   Viet Nam: Serving markets and workers

   20 July 2012

   Textiles are Viet Nam’s second largest export and provide about two million jobs for local workers. The sector has usually been associated with high productivity and competitiveness, but also with poor working conditions. Is it possible to reconcile the two?

2011

1. 

   Ms Thanh gets a passport; Skills training holds rural families, communities together

   02 December 2011

   Story of Tran Thi Thanh, a 43-year-old grandmother in My Loc, who acquired her first-ever passport and will use it to find work in Taiwan as a domestic workers.

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   Vietnamese apparel factories producing a good bargain for all. An Australian Government - ILO Partnership Agreement Success Story

   02 December 2011

   Story of Dang Thu Hoan, a Vietnamese worker who helps produce around US$13 billion in textile export revenues for Viet Nam.