Welcome to the ILO Country Office for Pakistan! The Office was established in 1970 and has since worked to provide technical assistance to the ILO tripartite constituents and other stakeholders to promote decent work and social justice. More
Welcome to the ILO Country Office for Pakistan! The Office was established in 1970 and has since worked to provide technical assistance to the ILO tripartite constituents and other stakeholders to promote decent work and social justice. More
Islamabad: The tri-partite stake holders endorsed the broad joint strategy of ILO- UNHCR to provide support to workers from Afghan Refugees and Host Communities under the Afghan Management and Repatriation Strategy.
Islamabad: ILO, UNDP and UNFPA jointly arranged a National workshop titled “Contemporary Issues of Youth employment in Pakistan” here today. The workshop was arranged in the backdrop of high priority given to youth employment issues in the upcoming International Labour Conference in Geneva in June 2012.
Islamabad: ILO and UN Women have signed a Letter of Intent to develop a common approach for better coordination and cooperation to work effectively on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment initiatives.
Are you between the ages of 18 and 29 years? Struggling to find a job or working under poor conditions? Want things to change? Make a video expressing your views and get a chance to present it at the Youth Employment Forum in Geneva.
First Event 8 March: Organized by Inter-Agency Group on Gender Equality – at ILO Auditorium Islamabad; Second Event 9 March: Organized by Pakistan Workers Federation – at ILO Auditorium Islamabad
International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March of each year. This year’s event focuses on recognizing the important contribution of rural women across the world to the well-being of their families and communities and in sustaining societies and economies.
On February 20, the ILO is inviting you to share your message for World Day of Social Justice – a message of hope, a call to the international community, advice for others – you decide.
Statement by Juan Somavia, ILO Director General, On the occasion of World Day of Social Justice- 20 February 2012.
Islamabad: The National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) will actively promote a decent environment in public transport particularly for women passengers and will impart sensitization training to drivers, conductors and transport union in this regard.
Islamabad: Four Provincial Labour Departments have agreed to draft a law to eliminate child labour from Pakistan. The new provincial law prohibiting child labour will replace the existing Employment of Children Act (ECA) 1991.
ILO in collaboration with the European Union under its project “Combating Abusive Child Labour II” is pleased to announce a National level Photo competition on the fight against child labour and encourages the journalists, students and general public to enter their photographs depicting various aspects of child labour in this competition.
Lahore: ILO Islamabad office convened a three day training workshop from 19-21 December, 2011 jointly with Labour and Human Resource Department, Government of Punjab in Lahore, the provincial capital.
KYOTO (ILO News) - Representatives of governments, workers and employers from the Asian, Pacific and Arab states have concluded a four day meeting at which they discussed ways the region could prepare to counter the consequences of the current economic uncertainty.
For the first time in Pakistan, ILO is bringing the industry leaders and representatives from the four provincial TEVTA to promote CBT. ILO’s Senior Training Policy Specialist Mr Trevor Riordan is the lead trainer and designer of the “Training Workshop on Competency Based Curricula Developed” being held from 7-10 December 2011 in Lahore.
ILO Country Office for Pakistan has concluded two days tripartite consultation to update Decent Work Country Programme (2010-2015) in Islamabad.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned of a “scarred” generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world.
In response to floods in Sindh, ILO has launched “Cash for Work” Project for the flood-affected people in Districts of Badin and Mirpurkhas. Mr. Francesco d’Ovidio, Country Director, ILO office for Pakistan while launching the “Cash for Work for Flood Affected People” project stated, “This project will generate more than 35,000 of person day of employment to the flood affected people”.
Two of ILO's projects, Towards Gender Parity (TGP) and Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment (GE4DE) hosted a joint event to showcase various activities that contribute to the understanding and application of gender equality at the workplace.
Joint statement by the country representatives of UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, and ILO in Pakistan on the occasion of World Teachers Day, 5th October 2011
Skilled young women and men of Sindh will be further equipped with entrepreneurial skills to start their own small businesses. Technical Education & Vocational Training (TEVT) Institutes of Sindh will start imparting entrepreneurship courses starting next year.
“Hazardous child labour is on the rise in most of the world among older children age 15-17” was reported at a workshop being held by the ILO this week. The ILO is drawing attention to this urgent issue by commissioning new studies in Pakistan to examine occupational risks to children working in ten sectors.
Press release
The government, worker and employer delegates at the 100th annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Thursday, 16 June adopted a historic set of international standards aimed at improving the working conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.
In a joint statement to mark the World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO and UNICEF today called for renewed efforts to end the worst forms of child labour in Pakistan.
Under One-UN Project “Towards Gender Parity in Pakistan (TGP)”, ILO and UN-Women have jointly initiated five pilot projects to provide “integrated support to Home-Based Workers” in different sectors and geographic locations. The “Experience Sharing and Advocacy Workshop” was held to highlight good practices and learning from the lessons in one of the pilots in Sialkot (Punjab).