What's new

• Message by the ILO's Director-general on the occasion of International Migrants Day • Arabic - (pdf 495KB)
  18 December 2012  - We celebrate the contribution of women and men migrants to growth and development in both their host and home countries. They replenish labour markets with much-needed skills and human and social capital.
• Migrant workers in Jordan are making their voices heard • Arabic - (pdf 642KB)
  17 December 2012  -  Jordan’s foreign workforce is large and growing fast. Around half a million migrants, most from Asian and Arab countries, toil long hours under sometimes difficult conditions.
• US$2.5 million to improve labour migration governance in the Middle East - (pdf 163KB) • Arabic - (pdf 374KB)
  17 December 2012  -  Low skilled migrants in Middle East can look forward to better labour migration governance and improved protection mechanisms, the objectives of a major regional project launched by the ILO this month, and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
• Wanted: Local workers for the oil and gas industry • Arabic - (pdf 520KB)
  12 December 2012  - The oil and gas industry is facing increasing shortages of skilled workers. This could be an opportunity for oil- and gas-producing countries to boost the involvement of their local workforce.
• Labour market gender gaps: Two steps forward, one step back • Arabic - (pdf 389KB)
  11 December 2012  -  Gender gaps in global labour markets showed some convergence in the earlier part of the last decade but increased after the crisis erupted in 2007, according to an ILO report produced in collaboration with UN Women. The picture varies considerably among regions.

• Events

  18-19 December 2012 - Amman, Jordan
  Inter-Ministerial Planning Workshop on Piloting of the National Framework on Child Labour
  The ILO will support the facilitation of a two-day workshop in Amman (18 and 19 December) on planning for the piloting of the National Framework on Child Labour (NFCL) in 2013.

  18 December 2012 - Little Rock Arkansas, United States
  Club de Madrid Annual Conference: Harnessing 21st Century Solutions: A Focus on Women
  ILO Regional Director for the Arab States is chairing the session "Women in the MENA Region: Towards a New Social Contract" at the Club de Madrid Annual Conference, featuring interventions from women leaders from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.

  16 December 2012 - Amman, Jordan
  Symposium on the Jordanian Garment Industry
  Better Work Jordan brings together worker, employer and government representatives to discuss proposals for a national five-year strategy for the Jordanian garment industry.