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The ILO – Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and the Trade Unions in India

Asia Pacific Regional Symposium on the follow up to the Campaign for Ratification and Application of ILO Conventions 87 (Freedom of Association)and 98 (Collective Bargaining)

India must have zero tolerance for workplace sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is not just a violation of human rights, in the workplace it also damages productivity and professional relationships. Recent cases in India have drawn attention to the problem, but the ILO is working with employers and managers to...

Labour market

Asia-Pacific on the road to middle-class employment

A recent ILO study shows that despite robust economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, millions of people are still living under or just above the poverty line.

Increasing the knowledge base for policy decision making: EU and ILO India promote decent work agenda for Indian health professionals

Thousands of Indian health professionals migrate every year for work, raising important questions related to the global shortage and inequitable distribution of health professionals, in and between many countries and the conditions under which their...

Child labour

Convergence – A way to end child labour in India

The ILO teams up with the local authorities to help remove and prevent children from entering child labour in urban and rural areas in five states.

“Work in Freedom” Programme

DFID, ILO to launch new initiative to tackle trafficking of women and girls

South Asia Regional Child Rights Group calls for an urgent end to child domestic labour and all violence against children

New Delhi

ILO Director-General statement to the 45th session of the Indian Labour Conference

ILO Director-General visits India

The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Mr Guy Ryder, will visit India from 18 to 19 May 2013. This will be Mr Ryder’s first visit to India since he was elected on 1 October 2012.

Social insurance

A smart way to prevent bonded labour

A young couple and their new baby are the first beneficiaries of a national health insurance scheme which now extends to migrant brick kiln workers at risk of bondage, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Welcome Address at the Dissemination of Findings of a Joint United Nations Study on Social Protection Floor for India

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO DWT for South Asia and Country Office for India at the Dissemination of Findings of a Joint United Nations Study on Social Protection Floor for India, 18 April 2013

Trade unions sharing experiences in promoting decent work for domestic workers through unionization in India

Today, a two-day workshop on sharing experience in organizing domestic workers closed in Bangalore, India. The event was organised by the ILO

Dissemination of findings of a joint United Nations study on social protection floor for India

The study examines the innovations, opportunities, challenges and trends in the area of social protection and recommends measures for achieving a social protection floor in India.

Unionizing domestic workers to promote decent work in Bangalore – New ILO report

The ILO report on Unionizing Domestic Workers: Case Study of the INTUC – Karnataka Domestic Workers Congress” was released today in Bangalore, India.

India: Workers detained in violation of their rights

Address at the ILO/Ministry of Labour & Employment (MOLE) Technical Workshop on Women’s Labour Force Participation in India and South Asia

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO DWT for South Asia and Country Office for India at the ILO/MOLE Technical Workshop on Women’s Labour Force Participation in India and South Asia, New Delhi , India, 14 February 2013

Gender gap

India: Why is women’s labour force participation dropping?

More women in India of working age are enrolling in secondary school but that is only one reason why the number of women who are either working or looking for a job is decreasing.

ILO Regional Director meets Minister of Labour & Employment, Government of India

Mr. Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific meets Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister of Labour & Employment, Government of India during his visit to India.

Address at the India Launch of ILO’s Global Employment Trends 2013

By Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at the India Launch of ILO’s Global Employment Trends 2013, New Delhi, India, 13 February 2013

ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific's first visit to India

ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Yoshiteru Uramoto visits India.