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Latin America and the Caribbean face the challenge of expanding pension coverage
Latin America and the Caribbean face a double pressure: high levels of labour informality and rapid population ageing. Expanding pension coverage is no longer only a social policy aspiration, but an urgent necessity to protect older persons and...
Voices of Action - Child labour
In Peru, a mother’s decent job becomes her daughter’s path out of child labour
Guadalupe, a 15-year-old girl from Lima, managed to move away from child labour, a reality that still affects more than 600,000 children in Peru. Her story shows how the ILO’s strategies, from promoting decent work for adults to strengthening...
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Youth driving change: Skills development and decent work to break the poverty cycle
To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the ILO shares the stories of Patricia (Peru) and Fátima (Mexico), two young women who show how skills development and decent work can break the cycle of poverty.
Social protection
World of Work actors and the ILO assess progress and gaps to expand Peru’s ratification of Convention No. 102
The ILO presented a study assessing the compatibility of Peru’s legal framework with Convention No. 102, identifying progress, gaps and recommendations to strengthen social security.
Social protection
Derrama Magisterial and the ILO present results of their alliance for teachers’ social security
The ILO and Derrama Magisterial presented the results of six years of technical cooperation, which have strengthened the governance, financial sustainability, and quality of services of this teachers’ social security institution. The balance...
Social protection
Social security governance: Peruvian institutions review international good practices with the ILO and ISSA
In Peru, representatives of the State, trade unions, and the business sector took part in a technical dialogue aimed at fostering more transparent and sustainable governance of social security, guided by the international guidelines of the...
Cooperatives
Peru certifies extension officers in methodologies to strengthen cooperatives in aquaculture
More than 20 professionals from the Directorate-General of Aquaculture of the Ministry of Production in Peru have been certified as trainers in the ILO’s Think.Coop and Start.Coop methodologies.
Sectors and value chains for decent work and productivity
2030 Roadmap approved in Peru to boost the Amazon Chestnut sector in Madre de Dios with decent work and sustainability
This strategic planning tool—developed with the active participation of Amazon Chestnut harvesters’ associations, enterprise, authorities and technical partners such as the ILO and CITEproductivo Madre de Dios—will guide the transformation of the...
Press release
ILO unveils key data on web-based platform work in Latin America and the Caribbean
New ILO report provides unprecedented data on workers in web-based digital platforms in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A U.S. Department of Labor and ILO Event
Fair Recruitment for Decent Work: A Dialogue on Promising Practices in the Western Hemisphere
Advancing a roadmap for the Amazon Chestnut sector to foster decent work and environmental sustainability in the Peruvian Amazon
With the support of the ILO and CITEproductivo Madre de Dios, the Technical Roundtable for the Amazon chestnut is promoting an innovative roadmap to strengthen its value chain, promoting decent work, gender equality and environmental sustainability...
Occupational safety and health at work
ILO and Canada to Strengthen Occupational Safety and Health in Peru's Agricultural Sector
The project aims to enhance the capacities of the government, employers, and workers to ensure safe and healthy working conditions in a sector critical to the country's economic development. It will focus on the agricultural sector, with a specific...
Forced Labor
Peruvian Journalists Shine a Light on Forced Labor and Other Forms of Modern Slavery
After participating in the 2nd edition of the ILO's practical workshop for journalists, "Reporting on Forced Labor and Other Forms of Modern Slavery," Peruvian journalists are publishing impactful stories to raise awareness about these issues.
Child Labour
31 governments, business and trade union organizations issue joint statement to eradicate child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ten commitments mark a decade of joint efforts towards a future without child labour in the region.
Migration
ILO and Canada launch initiative to promote labor integration of Venezuelan refugee and migrant women in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
The project financed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will seek, within the framework of the Regional Strategy for Socio-economic Integration, to contribute to the socio-economic integration of migrants in these three...
Trafficking in persons
Nearly 50 entrepreneurs committed to the economic integration of trafficking survivors
These entrepreneurs gathered to explore collaboration opportunities to support capacity building and facilitate the future employment of adolescents and young women, as detailed in the Guide for the Economic Independence of Trafficking Survivors...
Trafficking in persons
Ministries of Women and Labor in Peru Unite for the Economic Integration of Trafficking Survivors
With technical assistance from the ILO, the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations and the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion conducted the inaugural Fair of Services of the Employability Route. This event was designed to support the...
Forced labour
"Cachorreo", the system used to exploit miners in La Rinconada
For decades, miners have been subjected to "cachorreo" in the highest gold mining area in the world, in the Peruvian region of Puno. This is a modality in which miners work for free for more than 20 days in favour of the operators, to earn the right...
Social protection
A preliminary study on the potential extension of Convention No. 102 ratification in Peru was presented
In the context of the Global campaign to promote the ratification of Convention No. 102, the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s Universal Social Protection Department, together with the ILO’s office for the Andean Countries, presented the...
Trafficking in persons
Forensic Psychologists Develop Skills to Support the Prosecutorial Investigation of Child Trafficking Cases
Forensic experts from the Peruvian Public Ministry's Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences were trained to contribute to victim redress and the exemplary punishment of the perpetrators of trafficking in persons.