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Preparatory Meeting for a Peer Review on Child Labour in Tajikistan

On 4 May 2016, a Preparatory Meeting and Capacity Building Workshop were held in Tajikistan to prepare for the upcoming Peer Review Process on child labour.

An International Conference on Youth Employment in Ufa

An international conference on peer review of youth employment policies and programmes was held in Ufa, Bashkortostan, on 6 to 9 April 2016.

Minister of Labour and Social Development of Kyrgyzstan Visited ILO Moscow Office

On April 8, 2016 Kudaibergen Bazarbaev, Minister of Labour and Social Development of the Kyrgyz Republic, visited the office of the DWT/CO for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The EESE validation workshop was held in Bishkek

On 5 April 2016, the city of Bishkek hosted a workshop on Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE) to present preliminary results of the EESE survey conducted in Kyrgyzstan in 2015.

Know About Business – Training in Bishkek

In the framework of the ILO “Applying G20 Training Strategy” Project, an inten¬sive 9-day Training of Key Facilitators (TKF) was held in Bishkek from 23 March to 1 April 2016 on Know about Business (KAB) – the subject taught in all primary...

Kyrgyzstan: Reforming Social Protection System Through National Dialogue

On 17– 19 February 2016 a series of technical and political meetings took place in Bishkek as part of the framework for the social protection assessment–based national dialogue.

Results of National Child Labour Survey presented in Bishkek

The National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic organized a roundtable to present findings of the second National Child Labour Survey (NCLS). The survey was undertaken in 2014-2015 with the technical support of the ILO.

Testing Innovative Approaches: Voluntary Peer Review of Youth Employment Policies

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has successfully tested an innovative mechanism - voluntary peer reviews, in which countries assess one another’s youth employment policies and share good practices during joint meetings. It is one of the...

Sustainable enterprises high on the subregional agenda

Business enterprises operate within a specific political, social and economic context. For a business to grow, efforts at the enterprise level are not enough. To achieve sustainable development, addressing the issues related to the overall business...

Results of the third round of peer review of youth employment policies summed up in Sochi

On 12 – 17 October, southern Russian city of Sochi hosted a conference of the Youth Employment Network members. The Network is part of the project "Partnerships for youth employment in the CIS countries," which is being implemented by the ILO Moscow...

Rail unions focus on organising and promoting ILO conventions

Around 40 leaders from railway unions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia met with ILO experts and senior ITF representatives in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 September to 1 October to discuss organising and the promotion of ILO conventions throughout the...

YOUTH

ITUC-PERC/ILO Workshop for Central Asian trade unions: "Trade union youth and their role in organising"

Young Trade Union Activists in Central Asia to improve unions’ efficiency

Kyrgyzstan

Out of child labour and into school: The story of Alimjan

Alimjan’s mother did not see any harm in her son’s work, even though he was still a child. On the contrary, she believed that the sooner he learned how to earn money, the better. Read about how an ILO project helped get a boy out of child labour and...

ILO/ITUC/PERC Workshop on Reinforcing trade union policies in OSH prevention

Participants from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine took part in the fifth NIS OSH Network meeting in Armenia organized together with the ILO Moscow and financial support from the LO/TCO.

Employers’ organizations work towards improving the enabling environment for sustainable enterprises

Representatives of employers’ organizations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, met in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 20-21 April 2015 at an ILO Sub-regional...

Youth employment in the CIS discussed in Krasnoyarsk

On 20-24 April 2015 the city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia hosted a meeting of the Youth Employment Network members within the framework of the project “Partnerships for Youth Employment Project in the CIS” implemented by the ILO Moscow Office in...

Meeting of Tajikistan’s Tripartite Working Group

On April 14, the second meeting of Tajikistan’s Tripartite Working Group created within the framework of the ILO project “Applying the G20 Training Strategy. Partnership of the ILO and the Russian Federation” took place in a conference hall of...

Women trade union leaders from Central Asia discuss promotion of equal opportunities

From February 23 to 27 Moldova’s capital Chisinau hosted a seminar entitled “Decent labour rights of women and promotion of equal opportunities: best practices and prospects.”

Three countries discuss Disability Inclusion

A Workshop on “Inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market” was held in Sochi, Russian Federation, on 24-26 February 2015.

ILO experts discuss employment of disabled persons in Kyrgyzstan

On January 21, ILO Moscow experts and State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Social Development Baktybek Zhekshenov discussed employment of disabled persons within the framework of the ILO project “From the crisis towards decent and safe jobs”...