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Informal EPSCO meeting discusses youth and skills
Heinz Koller, Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, addressed the Informal Meeting of the Ministers of the EU responsible for Employment and Social Affairs (EPSCO).
Better jobs and entrepreneurship for Georgia
Denmark and the ILO work together in Georgia to promote better jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities
The Government of Denmark signed a 5-year development agreement with the International Labour Organization to strengthen labour law reform and compliance, promote youth entrepreneurship, formalize businesses and strengthen responsible business...
International Women’s Day
ILO: Women still less likely to be active in the labour market than men in most of the world
Despite notable progress over the past 20 years, updated ILO figures show persistent inequalities between women and men on access to the labour market, unemployment and conditions at work.
More and better jobs for Ukraine
Why support Ukraine? Why working with the ILO?--Interview with Danish government officials
Marie Pedersen Haug, Senior Advisor, and Lotte Mindedal, Development Counsellor at the Department of European Neighbourhood of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs explain why Denmark engaged in inclusive job creation in Ukraine and chose ILO as...
More and better jobs for Ukraine
Denmark pledges to scale up inclusive job creation in Ukraine
The Government of Denmark signed a 5-year development agreement with the International Labour Organization to address labour market deficiencies standing in the way of development in Ukraine.
106th Session of the International Labour Conference
Member countries sign ratifications during ILC
During the 2017 International Labour Conference, the Governments of several member countries across the Region have expressed their high commitment to Decent Work and agreed International Labour Standards.
Forced labour
Denmark joins renewed fight to end forced labour
Future of work
European social partners and civil society to discuss the future of work
EESC-ILO conference will focus on major changes in the world of work brought about by increased globalization, non-standard forms of employment and sweeping technological change.
Child labour
Denmark-led programme funds ILO project to combat child labour in Jordan and Lebanon among Syrian refugees and host communities in need
The Denmark-led Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP) has funded an International Labour Organization (ILO) project to combat rising child labour among Syrian refugees and host communities through labour policy reform and technical...
International experts familiarize themselves with Uzbekistan’s trade union movement
On April 24, Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent hosted an international conference focusing on trade unions’ role in ensuring citizens’ guarantees to decent work and the republic’s experience.
Partnership
Denmark signs new Partnership Programme with ILO worth $11.2 million
Agreement will provide flexible and predictable resources to the ILO's Regular Budget Supplementary Fund and to the joint ILO-IFC programme, Better Work
Moscow hosts international seminar of public employment services
On September 17-18, Russia’s Federal Service for Labour and Employment (Rostrud) held an international seminar for members of the World Association of Public Employment Services focusing on models of public employment service (PES): centralized and...
European Commission high level Conference
Ryder: Youth Guarantees, a good example for urgently needed, targeted and immediate action
At the high-level conference “The Youth Guarantee: Making it Happen,” hosted by the European Commission, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder praised the European Youth Guarantee as a concrete action to...
Decent work
ILO Head and Danish Prime Minister discuss EU employment and workers’ rights
Danish Prime Minister announces additional funds for the ILO’s work on improving workers’ rights in developing countries during a meeting with the ILO Director-General.
Working conditions
Post Rana Plaza: A vision for the future
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder's address to the High Level Meeting on garment and textiles production in Bangladesh organized by the Government of Denmark in Copenhagen.
Bangladesh
Ryder: Rana Plaza legacy must be improved working conditions globally
The ILO Director-General highlights the human cost of poor working conditions and calls for action to ensure the Rana Plaza tragedy is not repeated.
Denmark and ILO team up to advance youth employment in Egypt
Denmark donates US$1.6 million to finance the first phase of two youth employment projects in Egypt.
Azerbaijan introduces new mechanism to determine minimum wage
Within the framework of the second phase of Azerbaijan’s state programme for ensuring decent work new mechanisms and standards to determine a minimum wage will be established, Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alakbarov said in his...
Denmark ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
Denmark becomes the third EU member state, after Spain and Bulgaria, to ratify the landmark Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.