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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024
Number of youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET) a cause for concern, despite falling jobless rate
New ILO report finds high shares of youth NEETs, regional and gender gaps, and growing youth anxiety about work, despite encouraging global youth unemployment trends.
More workers than ever are losing the fight against heat stress
Heat is a silent killer that threatens the health and lives of a growing number of workers around the world, ILO report finds.
#EndChildLabour2021
World Day Against Child Labour in Africa: Opening remarks by Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director-General, Regional Director...
#EndChildLabour2021
Media Advisory- Event to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Africa
Join us for a regional virtual event to commemorate the World Day against Child Labour.
AU, ILO and UNICEF mark the World Day against Child Labour in Africa
The African Union, ILO and UNICEF organized a virtual Continental event to mark the World Day against Child Labour. The event brought together key actors, to discuss strategies to address child labour, taking a holistic and systemic approach based...
COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!
Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social...
« 100 YEARS – 100 LIVES » | DJIBOUTI – ETHIOPIA – ERITREA – KENYA – SOMALIA – SUDAN – SOUTH SUDAN – UGANDA - “Improving labour mobility and...
The ILO is implementing a project to improve opportunities for regulated labour mobility and decent work within the IGAD countries.
Child labour
Eritrea ratifies Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
Eritrea is the 185th Member State to have ratified Convention No. 182.
ILO and IGAD consult social partners on IGAD draft Protocol on Free Movement of Persons
ILO and IGAD invite social partners to discuss the draft Protocol on Free Movement of Persons before it is adopted.
IGAD member states discuss labour migration, mobility governance and skills development
ILO partners with IGAD and EU to validate findings of two studies on assessment of labour migration and mobility governance, and potentials of skills development for regulated labour mobility in the IGAD Region.
ILO Cairo Office Director on official visit to Eritrea
The ILO Cairo Office Director, Peter Van Rooij, on his first official visit to Eritrea from 22- 23 February 2015
Mr. Peter Van Rooij is appointed as the New Director of the ILO Cairo Office
The ILO Director- General Guy Ryder has appointed Mr. Peter Van Rooij as the New Director of the ILO Cairo Office.
Gender Equality
More women needed at top management positions in Africa
New ILO study reveals that the ratio of working women in senior management positions in Africa is still very low and calls for innovative measures to operate meaningful change.
Skills for Green economy
Invest in skills development and green economies in LDCs, says ILO
How more and better skills combined with pro-employment policies can contribute to job creation in new green economies of Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Decent work
Decent Work agenda for Eritrea
The National Confederation of Eritrean Workers (NCEW), the Eritrean Federation of Employers (EFE) and the ILO reviewed the Decent Work Agenda for Eritrea and proposed a way forward.
ILO statement to the Emergency Meeting on the Horn of Africa, FAO, Rome, 25 July 2011
On the occasion of the Emergency Meeting on the Horn of Africa, organized by the FAO, the Director of the ILO Office for Italy and San Marino delivered an ILO official statement on the strategies to cope the crisis in the region, with the three...