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Official launch of the R4D movie
H. E. The Minister of Public Works, Sr. Gastão Francisco de Sousa, hosted a high-level event to officially launch a movie about the Roads for Development Program (R4D). Senior dignitaries from the Government of Timor-Leste, Donors and Development...
L20 Summit - Session VI
A G20 strategy for reducing unemployment and income inequality
Remarks by Sandra Polaski Deputy Director-General for Policy, ILO
Promoting rural entrepreneurship through improved rural road access in Timor-Leste
Income-generating opportunities are available to very few people in rural areas of Timor-Leste where the local economy relies mostly on subsistence agriculture. Severe infrastructure constraints, in particular poor rural roads access, limit...
ILO study
Maternity protection: Good for workers, good for small businesses
Maternity protection and work-family measures can generate positive outcomes for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), says ILO Specialist Laura Addati.
Utilizing knowledge and experience for a better work
Siti Zamzanah has been making button holes and sewing buttons for 16 years now. She generally enjoys her life – spending time with family and working from home – but she is not fully satisfied with her work.
Partnership
Promoting a people and job-centred approach to disaster response
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Australian Government will bring together community leaders from areas hit by Typhoon Bopha (also named Pablo) in a forum to discuss a people and job-centred approach to disaster response.
G20 Labour and Employment Ministers meeting - Melbourne
ILO Director-General welcomes G20's ambitious commitments to promote decent jobs
Guy Ryder has welcomed commitments made by the G20 Ministers to tackle the global jobs crisis with a package of measures to support the creation of decent jobs that can lift working families out of poverty and drive sustainable development.
G20 Labour and Employment Ministers meeting - Melbourne
ILO Director General's address on G20 Labour Markets
The Director-General of the ILO, Guy Ryder, joined the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting held in Melbourne in September 2014, during which the ILO presented a number of reports on employment issues that have been prepared to inform the...
Skills training for people with disabilities
ILO: Better Work Indonesia improves access to jobs in garment industry for people with disabilities
According to a World Report on Disability (2011) published by The World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, there are roughly a billion people with disabilities in the world. Further, there are approximately 785 million of people with...
Kick-off Workshop on Rural Roads Master Plan for Timor-Leste
H. E. The Minister of Public Works Sr. Gastão Francisco de Sousa and H.E. the Ambassador of Australia, Mr. Peter Doyle, will officially open the Kick-off Workshop for the development of a Rural Roads Master Plan for Timor-Leste on 4th June 2014 at...
ILO Director-General Report Stimulates Debate on Fair Labour Migration
Migration is a key aspect of the world of work in the Pacific. Of all world regions, the Pacific has the highest per capita level of international mobility amongst its resident populations, especially those in Polynesia and Micronesia.
Inauguration of the Mahata-Kusi road
H. E. the President Taun Matan Ruak and H.E. the Ambassador of Australia, Mr. Peter Doyle, will officially inaugurate on 22nd May 2014 at 2 pm the Mahata-Kusi road in Mahata Sub-District, Oecusse. The road has been rehabilitated by the Ministry of...
Labour migration
Seasonal work brings year-round benefits
A new harvest is ready, and Celestine Aisa Maino, a seasonal worker from Papua New Guinea, has just embarked on her latest overseas journey. Working on a large Australian fruit farm gives her more income, and an ILO project helps her to use it to...
Better Work
Garment industry in the north to benefit from Better Work programme
After reaching one fourth of Viet Nam’s garment exporters in the south, the programme which aims to improve export industries’ performance and competitiveness will also expand to footwear industry.
Disaster response
ILO pursues its medium-term rebuilding strategy in Davao Oriental
Workers who lost their livelihoods to Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) are now part of rebuilding efforts in Mindanao. The ILO has accelerated its medium-term interventions on sustainable livelihoods with the support of the Australian Government’s Department...
Garment factory managers find significant benefits from improved social dialogue in the workplace
In order to improve compliance with labour standards and promote competitiveness in global supply chains, the ILO-Better Work Indonesia Programme has been supporting many garment enterprises in Indonesia in implementing the ILO core international...
Australia and ILO announce new programme of training support to Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment (SEPFOPE) of...
Australian Ambassador to Timor-Leste Miles Armitage, and Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment Policy, Ilidio Ximenes, today (16/7) formally launched a new program of support to the skills and training sector.
Partnership
ILO and BDA ink partnership to support peace building in Mindanao
The International Labour Organization and the Bangsamoro Development Agency today signed an agreement that will contribute to peace building efforts through local economic development, decent work and sustainable livelihoods in Mindanao.
Partnership
Australian Aid and ILO support sustainable livelihoods in the Philippines' worst typhoon-hit areas
Almost five months after typhoon Pablo (Bopha) hit the province of Davao Oriental in eastern Mindanao, Philippines, disaster-affected families in the municipalities of Baganga, Cateel and Boston still need help.
ILO: Better Work Indonesia Strives to End Workplace Harassment
A worker is offered better hours or more money in return for sexual favours; a manager pinches the bottom of a worker; a worker spreads malicious rumours about a fellow co-worker. These are all forms of harassment, and are common in one form or...