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The UN joint statement on the occasion of the World Day against Poverty

The 16th of October is World Food Day - a day set aside to focus on the challenges and solutions to food and nutrition security in the world. This year’s World Food Day is celebrated under the theme, Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the...

Workers Organizations from Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa signed a Declaration Promoting Labour and Human Rights of Migrant Domestic...

Trade unions and domestic workers’ organizations from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Lesotho signed a joint declaration at the tri-national workshop in Johannesburg organized by the EU funded Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and Their...

Moscow hosts international seminar of public employment services

On September 17-18, Russia’s Federal Service for Labour and Employment (Rostrud) held an international seminar for members of the World Association of Public Employment Services focusing on models of public employment service (PES): centralized and...

Addis Ababa to host the 2015 ILO African Regional Meeting

The 13th African Regional Meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, home to the African Union Commission and to the UN Economic Commission for Africa, from 30 November to 3 December 2015.

Employment policies

ILO calls for a job-led transformative agenda for Africa

At the SADC Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers and Social Partners, the ILO called for strong policies to stimulate the African transformative agenda and ensure concrete action for youth employment, social protection and labour migration.

ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa speech during the SADC Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers and Social...

Extra-ordinary meeting of SADC Ministers and social partners responsible for employment and labour

An Extra-Ordinary Meeting of SADC Ministers and Social Partners Responsible for Employment and Labour Sector (Employment and Labour Sector) has started in Victoria Falls 7 - 11 July 2014. The purpose of the meeting is to receive and consider drafts...

ILO Chief for Africa meets Zimbabwe's Minister of Youth Development, Indigenization and Empowerment

Mr Aeneas Chuma, ILO Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa met Honourable Francis Nhema to discuss creative ways and means for skills development of young women and men in Zimbabwe in order to address mismatches in the labour...

ILO Head for Africa meets Zimbabwe's Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare

Mr Aeneas Chuma, ILO Regional Director for Africa met Honourable Nicholas T. Goche to discuss strategic partnerships on youth employment, women empowerment, strenghtening social security and up-scaling ILO's support to technical cooperation projects.

ILO Regional Director for Africa on official visit to Zimbabwe

Mr Aeneas Chapinga Chuma, Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is in the country on his first official visit.

ILO Regional Director for Africa on official visit to Zimbabwe

Aeneas Chapinga Chuma, the new ILO Assistant-Director General and Regional Director for Africa, is on his first official visit to Zimbabwe to meet the leadership of the country, key representatives of UN agencies and development partners.

ILO Regional Director for Africa on official visit to Zimbabwe - Press Release

Windhoek, Namibia

Statement by Aeneas C. Chuma ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa during the Special Session of the African...

Statement by Aeneas C. Chuma ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa during the Special Session of the African Union Labour and Social Affairs Commission Meeting of Ministers - Windhoek, Namibia

Interface between law enforcement agencies and social partners

The ILO Commission of Enquiry suggested seven recommendations for the Government of Zimbabwe on Freedom of Association and the Right to Organize Convention, and the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention.

“Men cannot do what I am doing!”

Ester Karikoga, a young mother of two from the high density suburb Glen View in Harare, was left by her husband and found herself being a struggling single mother with no income:

ILO joins UN Women, UNDP and UNFPA in the country’s first Joint Programme for Gender Equality

On 27 February 2014, the United Nations in Zimbabwe launched the country’s first Joint Programme on Gender Equality. Funded through the generous support of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), the programme brings together...

Zimbabwe

Moving from marginalization through apprenticeships

An ILO project in Zimbabwe is helping improve the quality of apprenticeships in the informal economy. The programme helps young people, particularly those living with disability, find decent work and escape the vicious circle of marginalization and...

Media tour of ILO Projects in Mutoko District - Zimbabwe

On the 5th of March 2014 the ILO Country Office for Zimbabwe hosted a breakfast meeting and field visit for 45 senior journalists from the largest media houses in Zimbabwe as well as the Danish Ambassador Mr. Erik Broegger Rasmussen, the Deputy...

ILO Director's Remarks on the occassion of The National Youth Conference on Youth Skills for Employment, Entrepreneurship and Industry...

ILO Director's Remarks on the The National Youth Conference on Youth Skills for Employment, Entrepreneurship and Industry Growth

The Prevention of Occupational Diseases - Zimbabwe

In 2012 the Division of Occupational Health and Safety at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) diagnosed 13 cases of pneumoconiosis. By the end of April 2013, the Division had diagnosed and recorded another thirteen (13) cases of the disease