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Labor Ministry helps to employ 30,000 people in Kyrgyzstan

More than 30,000 people have been employed through the Labor Ministry in Kyrgyzstan, Labor, Migration and Youth Minister of Kyrgyzstan Aliyasbek Alymkulov told today at a press conference.

Kyrgyzstan’s Labour Ministry and ILO experts discuss ways out of crisis towards decent jobs

The second stage of the ILO project “From the crisis towards decent and safe jobs” was discussed at the meeting between Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Minister of Labour, Migration and Youth Kasym Chargynov and Chief Technical Adviser of the International...

Kyrgyzstan marks International Youth Day

On August 12 Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Labour, Migration and Youth in Bishkek hosted an event entitled “Youth Migration – Moving Development Forward” to mark the International Youth Day.

Trade union leaders meet to discuss informal employment

The Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC) in cooperation with the ILO organized a subregional meeting for trade union leaders focusing on informal employment. The meeting took place in Kyrgyzstan’s...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sharing knowledge in combating child labour

Within the framework of activities carried out by IPEC Programme in Central Asia two study tours were organized for tripartite partners in the region to learn experience of combating child labour in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

More than 70 children in Bishkek and Osh will be enrolled to evening classes

Evening classes will be opened on the basis of secondary schools in Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek and Osh, where more than 70 working children will be able to get education.

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of...

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Georgia (GTUC) took place on the 29th of May in Tbilisi. It coincided with the first day of the work of the...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sharing knowledge in combating child labour

Within the framework of activities carried out by the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) in Central Asia two study tours were organized for tripartite partners in the region to learn experience of combating...

Confederation of Labour of Russia developing migration strategy

On April 16 Moscow hosted a conference on management, representation and protection of labour migrants’ rights and trade unions’ experience and prospects. It was organized by the Centre for Social and Labour Rights, the Confederation of Labour of...

Child labour tops agenda of Kyrgyz parliamentary committee’s session

Following the education forum held in December 2012 with some parliamentarians participating, the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Kyrgyzstan in close cooperation with the the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child...

Kyrgyzstan to make first payments from funded component of pensions

The first payments from the funded component of pensions will be made in Kyrgyzstan, Rakhatbek Pirmatov, Head of the Agency on the State Pension Savings Fund said today at a press conference.

Kyrgyzstan introduces pension payment cards

Tashpolot Baltabayev: Only way to fight unemployment in Kyrgyzstan is export of human recourses

Ombudsmen of Central Asia, Russia discuss legal protection for labor migrants at Dushanbe conference

Kyrgyzstan trade union youth school

The Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan in cooperation with the ILO Decent Work Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia organized a five-day youth summer school on July 16-20. The summer school brought together some thirty...

Sixteen working children sent to vocational schools in Bishkek

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.

“Child labour free zones” to be created in northern Kyrgyzstan

The Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Kyrgyzstan under support of the ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) launched the project on establishing “child labour free zones” in Moskovskiy and...

Street campaign for World Day Against Child Labour in Kyrgyzstan

On June 10, a street campaign entitled “Warning! Children in hazardous work - End child labour” devoted to the World Day Against Child Labour started in Kyrgyzstan under support of the ILO and the Republic’s Social Protection Ministry.

Kyrgyzstan’s pension system faces problems

Kyrgyzstan’s pension system is in a hard situation, said Shamil Atakhanov, the head of a non-state accumulated pension fund.