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ILO evaluates its project in Tajikistan

Tajik president issues decree raising wages, pensions, scholarships

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has issued a decree increasing the minimum wage in all fields of the country's economy by a factor of 2.5 as of 1 January 2013, the privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website reported on 15 August.

Nearly 240 HIV-positive logged in Tajikistan in first quarter of 2012

Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, is hosting a meeting on the prevention of HIV infection among intravenous drug users in Central Asian countries.

Tajikistan creates website on problems of child labour

In April a website spotlighting the problems of child labour no-childlabour.tj was opened in Tajikistan.

HIV and AIDS workplace prevention: sharing experiences between India and Tajikistan

On April 24 First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Tajikistan Emin Sanginov met with Director of ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India Tine Staermose, launching a five-day study mission on...

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon visited the National Centre of Adult Education in Dushanbe

The centre provides vocational education training for people of different age, mainly for those unemployed and labour migrants on 48 professions and occupations that are on demand on the labour market.

Tajikistan to launch website on child labour issues

A website devoted to child labour issues will appear in Tajikistan in April.

Over two per cent unemployment rate logged in Tajikistan

Over 73,800 unemployed citizens were on Tajikistan's employment offices' watch lists in early January, 2012, which was more by 12.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2011.

Tajik remittances from Russia top 700m dollars in second quarter of 2011

In the second quarter of 2011 alone, 742m dollars was sent through money transfer from Russia to Tajikistan, the Central Bank of Russia has announced.

Tajik leader orders increase in wages, pensions, stipends

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has ordered an increase in budget-funded wages, pensions and student stipends, the Tajik TV's First Channel reported on 3 August.

Tajikistan’s trainers learn how to organize occupational risk assessment trainings

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Monitoring hazardous child labour in Tajikistan

Labour inspectors often find it difficult to reach out to informal economy workplaces where hazardous child labour occurs most frequently. According to this year’s ILO report for World Day Against Child Labour, child labour monitoring (CLM) systems...

Decent Work Programme for Tajikistan signed in Dushanbe

On 10 February, 2011, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, the tripartite partners – the Government, employers’ and workers' organizations - and the ILO signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a Decent Work Country Programee (DWCP) for the years 2011-2013.

Tajikistan sets up Migration Service

Under a decree by the president of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Migration Service under the government of the Republic of Tajikistan was set up today.

HIV/AIDS rate rises in Tajikistan in 2010

Over 1,004 of HIV/AIDS new cases were recorded in Tajikistan in 2010. A source at the Republican AIDS Centre of the Tajik Health Ministry told Asia-Plus that over 280 people, the representatives of various segments of the population, underwent...

Tajik migrants send nearly 2.3 bn dollars home in 2010

Tajik migrant workers, who are mainly working in Russia, sent nearly 2.29bn dollars to Tajikistan last year, which is a 25-per-cent increase compared to 2009, the chairman of the National Bank of Tajikistan, Sharif Rahimzoda, has told journalists.

Tajik GDP grows 6.5 per cent in 2010

Tajik trade unions focus on maternity protection

On November 26, the chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Union of Tajikistan, Murodali Salikhov, met with ILO expert Denis Rogachev (ILO project “From the crisis towards Decent and Safe Jobs”) and ILO National Project Coordinator...

Tajik migrant remittances up by over 27 per cent in Jan-Sep 2010

Tajik leader orders increase in monthly wages, pensions, scholarships

On 6 September Tajik president's website published a decree by the president of Tajikistan on measures aimed at strengthening the level of population's social security and increasing current allowances of public servants, workers of budgetary...