All news: Bangladesh

Asia-Pacific garment industry suffers as COVID-19 impacts ripple through supply chain

Garment sector in Asia and the Pacific

Asia-Pacific garment industry suffers as COVID-19 impact ripples through supply chain

Collapsing consumer demand, government lockdown measures and disruptions to raw material imports have taken their toll on the Asia Pacific garment industry, says a new ILO report.

Supporting factories in Bangladesh to manage the impact of COVID-19

Our impact, Their voices

From Fahmida’s creative hands to the international fashion stage

The ILO's Skills 21 Project trained 13 and 40 candidates to become Master Trainers and Trainers, respectively. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the Project supported the implementation of entrepreneurship development training through...

Bangladesh labour inspectorate launches COVID-19 workplace safety guideline

From Fahmida’s creative hands to the international fashion stage

Fahmida Sultana, Style Fyle – Bangladesh

Multi-donor programme

ILO/Germany programme to protect garment workers affected by COVID-19

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is giving €14.5 million to an International Labour Organization (ILO) multi-donor programme to help garment sector workers in seven countries who have been affected by...

ILO and Government host high-level international webinar to address needs of migrant workers with in-demand skills but no certification

Skills experts share ‘good practices’ on how to scale up Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) to secure decent work for millions of workers in global job markets

Social health protection

ILO partnership: Mahidol University and the ILO launch specialised Master’s Program developed to advance Social Health Protection in Asia

To strengthen the capacity of Social Health Protection (SHP) professionals in Asia, a Master’s Program in Primary Health Care Management and Social Health Protection has been launched at Mahidol University, Thailand.

COVID-19 disrupts education of over 70 per cent of youth

A decade of 'up-skilling' Bangladesh's skills sector

This op-ed has been written by Kishore Kumar Singh, Chief Technical Adviser and Manas Bhattacharyya, Specialist, Policy Develop, Governance and SWAP, Skills 21 project, ILO Bangladesh and published on The Financial Express

ILO Child Labour Convention achieves universal ratification

ILO Bangladesh celebrates World Youth Skills Day 2020

A crisis within a crisis

This op-ed has been written by Kishore Kumar Singh, Chief Technical Adviser and Ligaya Dumaoang, Specialist, TVET and Skills Development, Skills 21 project, ILO Bangladesh and published on The Dhaka Tribune

PM Sheikh Hasina addresses ILO Virtual Global Summit on COVID-19 and the World of Work

Honourable Prime Minister addressed the largest ever online gathering of workers, employers and governments to discuss how to better rebuild economies in the post-pandemic recovery

ILO partners with BGMEA and BKMEA to launch COVID-19 safety ‘Learning Hub’ for RMG workers

Comprehensive ‘virtual’ safety and training packages targeted at preparing and maintaining safer workforces and workplaces during and post-pandemic

COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF

Millions more children risk being pushed into child labour as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, which could lead to the first rise in child labour after 20 years of progress, according to a new brief from the International Labour Organization (ILO)...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

HomeNet South Asia, a network of home-based worker organisations across all South Asian countries

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Opinion

Human trafficking: Together, we can stop the scourge

This op-ed has been written by members of Bangladesh UN Network on Migration.

Workers Resource Centre goes digital amid Covid-19