News and articles

July 2015

  1. Priti Darooka on protecting vulnerable workers

    09 July 2015

    Priti Darooka is the founder and executive director of PWESCR (Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) in India. She discusses innovative approaches to protect vulnerable workers, and more particularly women.

March 2015

  1. © Antoine Lorgnier / Only World 2022
    ILO: Progress on gender equality at work remains inadequate

    06 March 2015

    While there have been many achievements on gender equality since the Beijing Declaration on women rights was signed by 189 governments in 1995, many challenges remain, including a motherhood pay gap.

February 2015

  1. Women trade union leaders from Central Asia discuss promotion of equal opportunities

    28 February 2015

    From February 23 to 27 Moldova’s capital Chisinau hosted a seminar entitled “Decent labour rights of women and promotion of equal opportunities: best practices and prospects.”

September 2013

  1. Interview with Maria Helena André, Director of ACTRAV

    30 September 2013

    The recently appointed Director of the Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), Ms Maria Helena André wants to strengthen her department’s services for ILO’s worker constituents. A trade unionist and Portugal’s former Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity (2009-2011), Ms André talks here about gender equality within the trade union movement and shares her thoughts about the theme of the World Day for Decent Work on 7th October.

March 2012

  1. Governing Body: the Director-General meets the Workers' Group

    26 March 2012

    ILO Director-General Juan Somavia met the Workers’ Group of the Governing Body. During the meeting, he emphasized that this would be the last Governing Body session that he would attend in the capacity of Director-General.

  2. International Women’s Day: The IUF Calls for Strengthening Decent Work in Agriculture to Protect Women’s Rights

    08 March 2012

    The coordinator for global agriculture at the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), Ms Sue Longley, stressed the need to strengthen decent work in agriculture to protect women’s rights.

April 2011

  1. Lomé: Training Seminar for Gender Audit Facilitators

    06 April 2011