Feature articles
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2018
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Speaking Health and Safety to Millennials
03 October 2018
A Philippine youth champion finds an innovative way to improve her fellow millennials’ knowledge about occupational safety and health.
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Safety matters: More to life after Haiyan
21 May 2018
Following Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) many workers were pushed to the informal economy where they face hazards at work due to lack of occupational safety and health. The ILO’s SafeYouth@Work Project helps them design and implement training programmes on occupational safety and health (OSH).
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Construction ahead, safety first
14 May 2018
Construction attracts more young workers but it has one of the highest rates of occupational injury and illness. Santi knows that workers in the construction industry face day to day occupational hazards.
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Think safety, work safely
07 May 2018
Safety and health at work is important for government officials and workers in the public sector. Al, a young public sector official and union member shares that the local government is also performing its duty to protect its people by ensuring occupational safety and health.
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Safe and equal opportunities without dangerous shortcuts
30 April 2018
Risky behaviours are most common among young workers. Zai, a female welder shares that women can do what men can. Welders like her, however, should not take dangerous shortcuts to make easy money, because what is important is making it home safe for your family.
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Farm safety: A new beginning
23 April 2018
Agriculture is one of the dangerous sectors, where workers suffer from cuts and injuries, and often exposed to harmful chemicals and long hours of work. The ILO highlights the need to improve occupational safety and health in agriculture.
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Philippines: Enhanced labour inspectorate, strengthened labour law compliance
07 February 2018
Labour inspection is more than just visiting workplaces. With the support of the ILO, the Philippines has been implementing labour inspectorate reforms and developing tools that can make a real difference in the lives of workers and employers.
2017
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Achievements of Filipino youth at the 21st World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
26 November 2017
Young people from the Philippines find solutions to address occupational safety and health at work. Prototypes developed at the 21st World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Singapore include a worker's eye app and round table with key stakeholders.
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Building peace through economic development in the southern Philippines
16 June 2017
An ILO project in the southern Philippines shows how the spirit of the possible new ILO standard can be put into practice by lifting conflict-hit communities out of poverty through local economic development.
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See you at my "playground": Tackling child labour in gold mining
12 June 2017
How an ILO project in the Philippines addresses the consequences of climate change and child labour, while improving working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
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“Fly now, pay later”: One of the traps for migrant workers
03 March 2017
How a Fair Recruitment Programme led by the ILO in the Philippines, Nepal, Jordan and Tunisia helps protect migrant workers against deceptive hiring practices and abusive working conditions, if not worse.
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Job skills boost confidence, build peace in Zamboanga
24 January 2017
ILO skills training programme provides decent work opportunities to people affected by the internal conflict in southern Philippines.
2016
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Building back collectively through sustainable livelihoods
21 September 2016
Judy Torres and his co-federation members in Tacloban City empowered themselves with a small-scale enterprise to determine the course of their own livelihoods after the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).
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Benefitting from climate-resilient responses to disaster
21 September 2016
Armed with hope to start anew, Fedelino Montecino joined the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) training on contour farming, in an effort to recover from the devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).
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Alternative livelihoods after a disaster
21 September 2016
Even as Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) took away people’s livelihoods, many displayed a firm resolve to secure alternative ways to earn a living. One such individual was Marina Tudtud of San Remigio, Northern Cebu.
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Involving youth in community rebuilding
20 July 2016
Sawali weaving is an art in Barangay Guadalupe in Coron, Palawan. Rochelle delos Angeles is a nineteen-year-old who is not only continuing the tradition but also helping to bring it into the future.
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Turning disaster into opportunity
20 July 2016
Carlon Cayadong of Ormoc City turned the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) into an opportunity to place himself in a better situation as a worker.
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Providing alternative livelihoods after a disaster
20 July 2016
A few months after the emergency employment phase, Marina Tudtud joined the ILO-supported reconstruction of a causeway in Barangay Batad, San Remigio. They repaired and widened the causeway that connected markets in surrounding barangays, facilitating the flow of agricultural goods between two municipalities by cutting the travel time from two hours to 30 minutes.
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Immediate recovery from disaster through emergency employment
30 May 2016
With the minimum wage she earned in the 15-day Emergency Employment programme she was able to buy food for her son. She was also enrolled in social security, accident and health insurance, and received personal protective equipment (PPE).
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Skills acquisition towards recovery
30 May 2016
While Ponciano delos Santos, Jr’s participation in one of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) training programmes was thanks to a stroke of good luck, how he positioned himself to achieve his goals was the product of hard work and perseverance in the face of adversity, both natural and man-made.