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ILO: Better Work Indonesia Programme Launch Phase 2
The Indonesian garment industry has enjoyed rapid growth, significantly contributing to the national economic growth by providing more than one million jobs and accounting for one of the primary state revenues.
Two Indonesian boys in an Australian prison
Indonesian boys were jailed with adult prisoners in an Australian prison. It has been months since they were arrested as criminals in the country. Their road to freedom is complicated.
Pacific ratifications help to bring ‘Seafarers Bill of Rights’ into effect
The ILO has received the 30th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), fulfilling the final condition for the first global standard spanning continents and oceans, to go into effect in a year’s time
Opening address at the green jobs mapping project sector consultation
By Ms Lourdes Kathleen Santos, delivered on behalf of Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the green jobs mapping project sector consultation, Manila, Philippines, 26 July 2012
A green plumber for a greener economy
The transition towards a greener economy is expected to affect about half of the global labour force or roughly 1.5 billion people. This means changes in terms of job types and workers’ skills – a topic that is high on the Rio+20 agenda.
A new social contract for Europe?
Questions and answers with Vasco Pedrina, author of “The Eurocrisis and the European trade union movement.
Greening the Brown article in the Island news.
Greening the Brown - Decent work for waste workers in Sri Lanka
Radio Australia's Pacific Beat Q&A with ILO TACKLE
A report has found that child labour exists in PNG and the worst forms exist in Port Moresby.
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ILO and Australian government strengthen technical cooperation with US$31 million Timor-Leste project
The ILO and the Governments of Australia and Timor-Leste have announced a new US$31 million project to significantly improve road transport in Timor-Leste.
Interview with Tim Lyons, Assistant Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
Tim Lyons, who was the Workers' group spokesperson at the 15th ILO Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting, talks about the situation of workers in Fiji, the promotion of ILO Conventions in Australia, and what the Australian Council of Trade Unions...
Australia ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
Australia becomes the 22nd member State to ratify the landmark Convention, which sets out seafarers’ rights to decent working and living conditions while creating fair competition for shipowners.
Vietnamese apparel factories producing a good bargain for all
Story of Dang Thu Hoan, a Vietnamese worker who helps produce around US$13 billion in textile export revenues for Viet Nam.
The Australian Government and the International Labour Organisation promote greater access to employment and justice for people with...
Organisations promoting the rights of people with disabilities demanded greater workforce inclusion and an improvement in basic rights this week in Jakarta.
Keynote address on Overview of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, status on implementation and emerging Issues
By Dr Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director, International Labour Standards Department, ILO, Geneva at the Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue on the Maritime Labour Convention, 3-6 May 2011, Cairns, Australia
Papua New Guinea labour delegation in Australia: tripartite group studies industrial relations, Australian labour market governance and...
ILO News: A tripartite delegation from Papua New Guinea (PNG) has travelled to Australia to study that country’s industrial relations institutions in advance of an anticipated enactment of a Bill to reform PNG’s industrial relations laws.
New ILO migration project to improve migrant workers' conditions in South-East Asia
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching a new project in South-East Asia to improve the governance of cross-border labour migration.
Asia and the Pacific Region
Decent work approach to recovery urged by Pacific Island labour ministers and social partners
Pacific Island Labour Ministers and social partners have reached an agreement to support a jobs-led recovery by promoting decent work in the Pacific region by adopting the Port Vila Statement on Decent Work and its accompanying ‘Pacific Action Plan...
Jobs-led recovery and plan for sustainable decent work at ILO high level meeting of ten Pacific member States at Port Vila, Vanuatu, 8–9...
In the aftermath of the global economic downturn and a lingering jobs crisis, the ILO is convening a high-level meeting on Decent Work for Sustainable Development in the Pacific from 8 to February in Vanuatu.
Questions and answers on jobs recovery and the development of decent work for people in the Pacific Islands
In February 2010, at Port Vila, Vanuatu, Labour Ministers, Senior Labour officials and representatives of worker and employer organizations from all eight countries – Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon...
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