All news: Brazil

UNDP-ILO

A socio-economic integration strategy to turn migration into a factor for sustainable development

More than 5 million Venezuelans have left their country and 85 percent have moved to other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, generating an unprecedented migration crisis, UNDP and ILO highlighted when presenting the regional strategy.

South-South Cooperation

Skills development, training and professional retraining are key elements for the recovery of the textile and clothing sector in the...

Promoted by the ILO, ABC and IBA, “South-South cooperation webinar on future skills needs in the garment and textile sectors in Brazil, Ethiopia, Jordan and Peru” brought together representatives of governments, workers 'and employers'...

ILO Brasilia prepares to launch SCORE Programme in Brazil

The SCORE programme will be launched in Brazil for three years to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and reverse damages caused by poor working conditions in the Brazilian apparel sector.

Digital economy

Digital platforms: a future of work with opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

In the last decade, digital work platforms in the region have increased 14 fold, and COVID-19 is accelerating the transformation. Now there is a need to improve taking advantage of employment and business opportunities in a sector where algorithmic...

World Employment and Social Outlook 2021

Rapid growth of digital economy calls for coherent policy response

The growth of digital labour platforms is presenting opportunities and challenges for workers and businesses and a need for international policy dialogue.

South-South Cooperation

ILO and Brazil seal new project to support the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean free of Child Labour

In the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, a renewed South-South cooperation partnership is essential to promote the exchange of knowledge and the improvement of public policies.

COVID-19: ILO Monitor – 7th edition

ILO: Uncertain and uneven recovery expected following unprecedented labour market crisis

The latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 by the ILO, records massive damage to working time and income, with prospects for a recovery in 2021 slow, uneven and uncertain unless early improvements are supported by human-centred...

Child labour

2021: International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

Child labour has decreased by 38 per cent in the last decade but 152 million children are still affected. The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably worsened the situation, but joint and decisive action can reverse this trend.

Working from home

Homeworkers need to be better protected, says the ILO

The dramatic increase in working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the poor working conditions experienced by many homeworkers who, prior to the crisis, numbered an estimated 260 million people worldwide.

ILO Voices | Equality and diversity

Diversity is the best ingredient

The Argentinian celebrity chef, Paola Carosella, explains why she joined the ILO’s “Kitchen and Voice” project, which helps marginalized and vulnerable people in Brazil find work in the hospitality sector.

Labour Overview 2020

COVID-19 leaves a trail of high unemployment, inactivity and precarious employment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Some 30 million people are unemployed and 23 million will have left the workforce due to the lack of opportunities. In 2021, employment will be in intensive care and the indicators could worsen, says ILO annual Labour Overview for Latin America and...

Labour migration

Migrant pay gap widens in many high-income countries

Migrants earn nearly 13 per cent less than national workers, an ILO study shows. In some countries, the gap is as much as 42 per cent.

Maritime Labour Convention

ILO Governing Body calls for urgent action on seafarer COVID-19 crisis

Its resolution addresses the plight of hundreds of thousands of seafarers who have been trapped at sea for as many as 17 months or longer because of pandemic restrictions.

Global Wage Report 2020-21

COVID-19 drives wages down, new ILO report finds

Even before the COVID pandemic hit, hundreds of millions of workers worldwide were being paid less than the minimum wage.

ECLAC and ILO warn that the labour market in Latin America and the Caribbean will recover slowly after the COVID-19 pandemic

In a new joint publication, these two United Nations organizations stress that to emerge from the crisis, active macro policies are needed along with sectoral policies that would promote sustainable development with employment.

9th BRICS Trade Union Forum

The forum was attended by 106 delegates representing 13 national trade union centres which bring together almost 400 million workers, and by honorary guests from Russia and beyond.

Annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank

ILO: The world economy needs a new engine of economic recovery

In written statements to the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder warned against higher levels of poverty and inequality resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. Highlighting the urgent need for social protection...

30 countries of the region continue on their way towards target 8.7 of the 2030 Agenda

6 Years of sustained commitment to achieve a joint goal: end child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean

With a view to the International Year 2021, the Network of Focal Points will hold its 6th Annual Meeting virtually from October 27 to 30, 2020 to define priorities, redouble commitments and agree on its action plan on child labour in the context of...

Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Labour and Employment

BRICS commitment to jobs, social protection & social dialogue welcomed by ILO

Higher levels of international cooperation and solidarity will be needed to meet the challenge to labour markets posed by COVID-19, says ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder.

ILO: 34 million jobs lost in Latin America and the Caribbean due to crisis

COVID-19 leaves behind a drastic contraction in employment and income in the region. Signs of an early recovery suggest that millions could return to seek employment in the coming weeks, highlighted the ILO in a new edition of its Labour Overview.