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Heat stress
High temperatures linked to increased mortality among workers in Colombia, ILO study finds
Agricultural workers, assemblers and health and teaching professionals are among the occupational groups facing the greatest mortality risks associated with high temperatures, according to a new ILO working paper.
Key actors from Colombia’s main agricultural supply chains conclude diploma programme on living wages and incomes
Representatives of workers’ organisations, companies from the coffee, banana and palm oil sectors, and public institutions participated in RURALIA, an ILO programme aimed at strengthening technical capacities and promoting social dialogue on living...
ILO and Nestlé partner to advance labour rights in coffee supply chains
ILO and Nestlé launch a two-year project to promote fair recruitment and labour rights in coffee supply chains in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
This is social justice
Digital tools boost ancestral craft and livelihoods in Colombia
For centuries, Wayúu Indigenous artisans like Arleidis Laudith Puschaina Puschaina have woven bags and hammocks. With support from Colombia’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies and the National Training Service, they now use...
ILO Voices | Digital skills for youth
Digital skills revived my mother’s food business and our family bond
Rafael Meza is a student from Colombia, one of more than 60,000 young people who are benefitting from the ILO-supported SENATIC project. Through the programme, he is learning digital marketing skills that are helping him boost his mother’s food...
With the support of the ILO, a young programmer turns his passion for technology into a social purpose through SENATIC
At just 17 years old, Marlon Santiago Hernández López already sees the world through code. Technology is not only an early passion for him but also a language for transforming realities. Through the SENATIC project, the ILO is supporting the growth...
Partnering for Development
Advancing digital education and opportunities for Colombia’s youth
SENATIC, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC), the National Training Service (SENA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), is one of Colombia’s most ambitious efforts in Digital...
International Day of Care and Support
ILO highlights the role of cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy in transforming care work and closing gender gaps
The ILO presents an analysis of how cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy offer sustainable and inclusive solutions to the care crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Social Protection
Colombia strengthens its path toward the ratification of Convention No. 102
The ILO is supporting representatives of the Government, employers, and workers in Colombia in strengthening their capacities on international social security standards.
ILO nurtures dreams with a scent of training: Artissan Café, the fruit of SENATIC in the mountains of Risaralda
In the misty highlands of Santa Rosa de Cabal, where rural hamlets seem suspended in the clouds and coffee grows as a farming legacy, three young people decided to change the story of their community. Thanks to the SENATIC project a partnership...
The strength of Hercules in the classroom: the ILO and the legacy of Giovanny Suárez Iglesias in Santa Marta
Just like Hercules, who in Greco Roman mythology combined physical strength with nobility of spirit, Giovanny Alfonzo Suárez Iglesias stands out for his imposing presence and for the impact he leaves on those around him. Standing 1.94 metres tall...
ILO delivered training programme on International Labour Standards for judicial officials in Colombia
In partnership with the Supreme Court of Justice and the Rodrigo Lara Bonilla Judicial School, the ILO held two training events in Bucaramanga and Medellín in August 2025 to strengthen capacities for the application of International Labour Standards...
ILO Voices | Care economy
Our community now sees the value of care work
Yoraima Cristina Navarro Izquierdo is an Arhuaco leader and founder of Josa Peace Builders, an association of women weavers in Colombia. An ILO project has provided training on economic autonomy and recognizing care work, and is helping Yoraima and...
From San Andrés island, lives are being transformed through technology and an ILO backed project
This is the case of Keyn Manuel Martínez, who guides his eleventh grade students along the path of technical education, creatively tackling the challenges of language, exclusion, and the geographical distance between the archipelago and the...
With the support of the ILO, Javier Quintero Rojas is enthusiastically shaping a generation transformed by technology
From the mountains of Bucaramanga, with roots in the warm and quiet land of Gamarra, Javier Quintero has made teaching his life project and technology a tool to transform the present of hundreds of young people. His commitment to technical...
The ILO and SENATIC continue paving the way to the future: this is the story of Dayarlin, a young woman transforming her life through...
From the hills of Bucaramanga, in Comuna 14, a young Venezuelan learner shows that a passion for technology can be the driving force to build dreams and forge a professional life with independence and purpose. Dayarlin is one of the many voices that...
With the support of the ILO, Arleidis Pushaina overcomes barriers to study technology and serve her Wayúu community
From the Lomamatos ranchería in the municipality of Hatonuevo (La Guajira), Arleidis Pushaina Pushaina is moving forward with determination as a trainee in the SENATIC programme.
International Year of Cooperatives
Measures to strengthen cooperatives and their role in sustainable development showcased at UN Headquarters
At a high-level event for the International Year of Cooperatives, governments, the ILO, and representatives of the cooperative movement shared recent policies, financing schemes and education initiatives, alongside new data and international...
Oil palm employers complete assistance programme on labour standards compliance with support from the ILO and Cargill
The International Labour Organization (ILO), in partnership with Cargill, has certified 18 companies that successfully completed the Palma al día: virtual assistance for employers programme.
"From adversity to purpose: a young man from southwestern Colombia who, thanks to the support of the ILO and SENATIC, now believes in the...
"Every time I was mistreated as a child, I learned to rise stronger. Today, I use technology to build" says Luis Felipe Ñañez Ibarra, a trainee in the SENATIC project an initiative led by the Ministry of ICT, SENA and the ILO that is transforming...