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Special edition podcast: Ending forced labour and child labour in Mexico
This podcast features interviews with four expert speakers from businesses and employer and business membership organizations who all have first-hand experience in tackling forced labour and child labour.
ILO Voices | Occupational safety and health
Good coffee, safe lives
Briseida Venegas Ramos is president of a female-led coffee cooperative in Veracruz, Mexico. She teaches farmers how to prevent accidents while working.
12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Plenary Session 1: Social and Solidarity Economy: an overview, values and principles
12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Plenary Session 5: The importance of statistical instruments in measuring the SSE
Emerging Insight: Exploring digital solutions in Mexico
Improving occupational safety and health in global supply chains with the Vision Zero Fund
DG INTPA and the ILO Vision Zero Fund (VZF) held an INFOPOINT virtual conference on “Improving occupational safety and health in global supply chains with the Vision Zero Fund” on 8 September 2021.
Briefing note of the end of the mission
Conclusion of ILO observation mission in Silao, Guanajuato
In response to a request from the government of Mexico the ILO carried out an observation mission of the process of the legitimization of the Collective Bargaining Agreement at the General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico.
Workers' rights
ILO Observation Mission Announcement in Mexico
Collective Bargaining Agreement Vote – GM plant, Silao, Guanajuato.
ILO COOP participates in the Strategic Workshop “Toward an action plan to eliminate child labour and to promote decent work in solid waste...
Head of ILO’s COOP Unit highlighted the role that cooperatives play for informal waste-pickers to access social protection, generate negotiation power with public and private stakeholders and to formalize their work.
ILO Voices | Forced labour
Labour, freedom and happiness: The great driving forces of antiquity
Rodrigo Mogrovejo works for the ILO in Mexico where he deals with contemporary labour standards. His hobby is the study of ancient history, where he sees great relevance to the issues he deals with daily at work.
Domestic Workers Convention
Ratification by Mexico of Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers
Mexico is committed to promoting decent work for domestic workers. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security and the Undersecretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Mexican Foreign Ministry participated in a virtual ceremony.
Fifteen new trainers on My.Coop were trained and 36 coffee cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico benefited from My.Coop training
A series of My.Coop training workshops were carried out to support the economic recovery of the earthquake-affected communities in the State of Chiapas.
Women in Business and Management
Sharp rise in women-owned businesses in Central America
Case studies from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico (Chihuahua) and Panama show that women’s success as business owners and employers can be influenced by the size of their enterprise, the economic sectors in which they operate, their education and...
How international labour standards are promoted through trade policy and trade agreements
Media advisory
Roma star to celebrate International Women’s Day with the ILO
Yalitza Aparicio, the actor who stars in the Oscar-winning film Roma, will celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) with the International Labour Organization (ILO) at two events on 7-8 March.
Collective Bargaining
Mexico ratifies the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)
Structural transformation in emerging economies: leading sectors and the balanced growth hypothesis
Launching of REFRAME project in Mexico and work plan for 2018-2019
NThe event had the purpose of bringing together, for the first time, all the actors that have contributed to the definition of the project work plan for Mexico.
Latin America and the Caribbean assume the commitment to completely end child labour
The Focal Points Network of the “Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour”, launched its first face-to-face meeting in Brasilia
Tripartite workshop on green jobs promotion held in Mexico City
More than 60 representatives from government, employers’ and workers’ organisations, as well as from specialized and academic institutions attended the three day national workshop on Strategies for Sustainable Development and Green Jobs Creation.