All events: Asia + Pacific

Forum to promote good labour practices in electronics enterprises

Dialogue on promoting labour legislation compliance in the supply chain of the electronics sector

The dialogue forum is part of the VCCI/ILO initiative to promote socially responsible labour practices in the multinational enterprises, business associations and their suppliers in Viet Nam. It also aims at facilitating policy dialogue between the...

SafeYouth@Work Event

Tripartite Consultations on the Gap Analysis of Key ILO Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Conventions

The SafeYouth@Work Project, in collaboration with the Institute for Labour Studies (ILS), embarked on tripartite consultations on the initial results of the Gap Analysis of Key ILO OSH Conventions. During the tripartite consultation workshops...

26-27 July 2017

The Future of Work We Want: Workers’ perspective in South-East Asia and the Pacific

The conference will bring together workers’ leaders, voices from academia, governments and employers from across the region to discuss the profound transformations and challenges faced by the world of work today and in the future.

Occupational Safety and Health - Safe and Healthy Youth Project

Occupational Safety and Health Appreciation Course for Tripartite Councils

Workers and employers' representatives as well as DOLE focal persons of regional tripartite industry councils in the National Capital Region attended the pilot-run of the Appreciation Course on OSH for Tripartite Councils.

24-26 July 2017

Belt and Roads Conference on Employment Services in ASEAN+3 countries

The ILO, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China (MoHRSS), and the Department of Human Resources and Social Security (DoHRSS) of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China are organizing a forum for practitioners to share...

Training for Thai Trade Unions on International Labour Standards, Organizing and Collective Bargaining

The workshop aims at strengthening young Thai trade unionists' capacities for promoting international labour standards in labour policies, utilizing ILO’s Supervisory mechanism (on FoA in particular) and take initiatives for organizing, collective...

Occupational Safety and Health - Safe and Healthy Youth Project

Tripartite Validation Workshop on the Results of the Assessment Survey on Regional Industrial Peace Council (RTIPC) and Industry Tripartite...

The workshop gathered 60 representatives of tripartite councils in the regions as well those coming from Industry Tripartite Councils and the Tripartite Executive Committee of the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council. DOLE Undersecretary...

Validation workshop on training and communication materials for occupational safety and health (OSH) in craft villages in Hung Yen

The aim of the workshop is to finalise a complete set of communication and training materials towards improved occupational safety and health in selected craft villages in Hung Yen. The workshop takes place in July 2017 in Ha Noi, with the...

Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) Refreshment Training Workshop

The workshop aim to refresh the SIYB training materials on entrepreneurship skills including updating the exercises and examples of business ideas, and friendly to local entrepreneurs that can be more relevant to local contexts.

Capacity building activities for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) improvements in craft villages in Hung Yen Province

The capacity city building activities are to generate a deeper understanding of specific workplace hazards and risks present in the craft villages, particularly as they affect young workers.

Skills in ASEAN

Regional Skills Technical Working Group (RSTWG) Meeting

The RSTWG comprises of national focal points who were earlier designated by the Governments of the AMS to liaise with the ILO and to coordinate skills-related programmes at the national level. At the same time, the ILO also invited members of the...

Labour inspection

ILO Supports DOLE Review of Labour Inspection Tools

In response to the tripartite partners’ recognized need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of labour inspection, the ILO in coordination with the Department of Labor and Employment’s Bureau of Working Conditions (DOLE-BWC), conducted the...

Experts’ Meeting on Extending Social Protection to Migrant Workers in ASEAN

In support of the ILO and ASEAN priorities to provide equal access to social protection for migrant workers, the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN Programme will conduct an Experts’ Meeting on Extending Social Protection to Migrant Workers in ASEAN.

The 8th Edition of the ILO Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy

ILO/CMTU Workshop to Validate a Draft CMTU Plan of Action on SDG Monitoring

The workshop participants will discuss and validate a draft CMTU Plan of Action on SDG monitoring including CMTU’s focus SDG and decent work indicators. It is part of wider efforts to develop organizational capacity of the Confederation of Mongolian...

World Day against Child Labour 2017

Songs and poems for one million Filipino children freed from child labour

The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) will mark the World Day against Child Labour in the Philippines in a concert featuring songs, dances and poems on child labour in line with the global theme “In conflicts and disasters, protect children from...

Fair recruitment

Filipino Migrant Worker's Day

As part of the ILO Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) research agenda, the ILO Country Office for the Philippines (ILO-CO Manila) commissioned a research report that seeks to understand challenges and opportunities that will contribute...

Labour law compliance

ILO Capacitates ECOP Helpdesk on Labour Laws Compliance

The ILO US Department of Labor Project on Building the Capacity of the Philippines' Labour Inspectorate conducted a three-day training programme on "Capacitating Employers to Comply with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) labour law...

Green jobs

Good and decent jobs, skills, and entrepreneurship for a just energy transition

Governments, enterprises, workers, financial institutions and development partners will discuss a just energy transition in a deep dive workshop as part of the Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF). The ILO workshop is co-organized with the Asian...

Child labour

SHIELD against child labour partnership agreement and project orientation

The ILO supports the Strategic Helpdesks for Information, Education, Livelihood and other Developmental Interventions (SHIELD) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development to address child labour in Camarines Norte, where a signing of a...