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The ILO Regional Office for Arab States strives to promote decent work in the Levant and the Gulf. The Regional Office in Beirut covers in 11 countries: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain. ILO activities in the occupied Palestinian territory are also part of the Regional Office portfolio.

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ILO report shows why social protection is crucial to tackle child labour • Arabic - (pdf 574KB)
30 April 2013 - Measures such as cash transfers or health insurance programmes can sometimes determine whether a child spends the day studying and playing, or working and being deprived of a fair chance at a decent future.
Jordan moves to prevent fire risks in factories and dormitories - (pdf 357KB)• Arabic - (pdf 892KB)
28 April 2013 - As part of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Better Work Jordan (BWJ) will hold meeting of key stakeholders to discuss fire risks at factories and migrant dormitories and ways to prevent them.
Better Work Jordan hosts International Buyers' Forum for the Garment Industry. - (pdf 302KB)• Arabic - (pdf 230KB)
16 April 2013 - The International Labour Organization hosts a meeting of key stakeholders in the garment industry to work towards consensus on key issues related to working conditions.
Gender-Based Violence in the Workplace: An overview from the occupied Palestinian territory • Arabic - (pdf 419KB)
Join our Q&A session on forced labour in the Middle East • Arabic - (pdf 318KB)
10 April 2013 - The head of the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, Beate Andrees to host a Twitter Q&A on the forced labour situation in the Middle East on Wednesday 10 April.
Tricked and trapped: How migrant workers are getting a raw deal in the Middle East - (pdf 443KB)• Arabic - (pdf 988KB)
09 April 2013 - ILO reveals how an estimated 600,000 migrant workers are tricked and trapped into forced labour across the Middle East at the first-ever tripartite regional conference on human trafficking.
Jordan adopts policy to tackle HIV and AIDS at work, a first in the Arab region - (pdf 227KB)• Arabic - (pdf 791KB)
08 April 2013 - Jordan has become the first Arab country to adopt a national policy targeting HIV/AIDS in the workplace since an international labour standard on HIV/AIDS and the world of work was adopted at the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2010.

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