All news: Nepal

Promoting safe migration from Nepal: Foreign Employment Information and Counselling Center inaugurated at the Kathmandu Labour Village

The ILO, European Union, Foreign Employment Promotion Board and the Non-Resident Nepali Association collaborated to open a Foreign Employment Information and Counselling Center at the Labour Village in Kathmandu. The Center was inaugurated by the...

Enhancing Productivity and Competitiveness through Social Dialogue

The Human Resources Society Nepal, in collaboration with the ILO, organized a half-day Knowledge Sharing Workshop on “Enhancing Productivity and Competitiveness through Social Dialogue in the Nepalese enterprises” in Kathmandu today. The event was...

Nepal: Rights, quake rehab plan are musts for peace and development

On the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, ILO News talked to Dr Mukta Singh Lama, an indigenous person from Nepal, about the post-earthquake situation and the impact of ILO Convention 169 on important rights of...

ILO and MoLE/DoL sign MoU to improve Employment Services in Nepal

An impetus on improving the access to basic quality employment services that helps Nepalese job seekers especially the youth is underway following the signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE),...

World Day against Child Labour - 2015

Strengthening leadership capacities of stakeholders from Nepal and Paraguay to influence policies on migrant domestic workers

The Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) supported participation of the stakeholders from Nepal and Paraguay in the training organized by UN Women on Gender, Migration, Development: A Matter of Rights,...

Natural disaster

ILO Director-General reaffirms support to Nepal reconstruction following second earthquake

A blog

Why framing the discourse on human trafficking is important - some thoughts

Labour migration

SAARC commits to helping migrant workers

By Yoshiteru Uramoto, Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific of the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Workers of SAARC, unite

Op Ed published in The Kathmandu Post

ILO welcomes 'landmark' SAARC labour migration commitments

The ILO welcomes Kathmandu Declaration committing to improve labour migration processes.

ILO Regional Director calls for SAARC countries to come together for a fair agenda for migrant workers

He expressed his high hopes that forthcoming SAARC Summit will include an agenda item on migrant workers.

Labour migration

New recommendations for reintegrating returning migrants

Migrants returning to their home countries need more comprehensive help to reintegrate successfully in their communities.

School to work transition

Young workers in Asia face instability and vulnerability

A new International Labour Organization (ILO) report on the transitions of young people from education to the employment market in Asia and the Pacific, finds majority of youth in the region are either in low quality jobs or unemployed.

First My.Coop training in the Nepali language

ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific concluded his mission to Kathmandu with a sense of unequivocal support to and a great...

The International Labour Organization's Assistant Director General and Regional Director, Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto, visited Nepal from 6 to 9 April 2014. The visit was part of his relentless commitment to reinforce relations with the ILO constituents at...

Signing of joint initiative with the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) to protect women and girls from trafficking

The Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) and the ILO Nepal signed a partnership agreement for implementation of the Work in Freedom Programme funded by the Government of UK/ Department for International Development (DFID).

Signing of Strengthening National Rural Transport Programme

On 28 March 2014, the ILO and the Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads (DoLIDAR), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development signed an agreement for the implementation of the routine maintenance component...

Promoting Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia Project launching

The new Project with the European Union (EU) will contribute to ensure effective protection of the rights of vulnerable migrant workers, enhance the development impact of labour migration and reduce unregulated migration.

Bonded labour

Fighting bonded labour in Nepal

Though it is banned by the government and has all but disappeared from certain locations, bonded labour persists in some parts of the country.