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Cuba joins efforts to promote decent work at sea
Ratification ceremony of the MLC, 2006, 12 June 2026: Mr. Jesús Otamendiz Campos, Minister of Labour and Social Security of Cuba and Mr Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of the ILO.

International Labour Standards

Cuba joins efforts to promote decent work at sea

Cuba is the 113th Member State of the ILO to have ratified the Maritime Labour Convention

ILO, Cuba strengthen ties to advance support for persons with disabilities in Zambia
ILO Country Office Director for Zambia and Malawi, Mr. Wellington Chibebe, met with the Cuban Ambassador to Zambia, Mrs. Marileydis Duenas Morales in Lusaka.

ILO, Cuba strengthen ties to advance support for persons with disabilities in Zambia

ILO and Cuba are strengthening cooperation to improve support for Persons with Disabilities in Zambia, including revamping the National Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre and expanding cataract surgeries. The partnership aims to enhance skills,...

Just Transition in Small Island Developing States is key to economic resilience
Fishing at Saint Martin Island, Bay of Bengal.

Commonwealth Sustainable Energy Forum

Just Transition in Small Island Developing States is key to economic resilience

The ILO is promoting just energy transitions in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) as a key strategy to boost workforce and economic resilience, as highlighted at the Commonwealth Sustainable Energy Forum in May 2025.

Dr Sonja Novkovic, the Chair of the ICA Committee on Cooperative Research and a Professor at Saint Mary’s University in Canada

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Dr Sonja Novkovic, the Chair of the ICA Committee on Cooperative Research and a Professor at Saint Mary’s University in Canada

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

ILO: COVID-19 eliminates the equivalent of 1.5 million jobs in the Caribbean

COVID-19 pandemic

ILO: COVID-19 eliminates the equivalent of 1.5 million jobs in the Caribbean

The region records significant losses in working hours, marked by a severe deterioration in the second quarter of 2020 from the first quarter of the same year

Cuba ratifies the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

Child labour

Cuba ratifies the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

Cuba is the 180th ILO member State to ratify this instrument, which calls for the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour