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Employment promotion

The Changemaker

Asma Ahmad Sheikh has helped people in rural Pakistan get training and set up their own businesses. Her work as a Changemaker led to her winning in a global skills competition.

International Women’s Day (8 March)

Ending gender discrimination in recruitment and work environment will promote business success

New study by the ILO in co-operation with Navigos Search shows one in five job postings includes gender requirement with male applicants preferred for more skilled and better paid jobs while better equality is recorded in promotion practices.

ILO/ADB report

Investing in more relevant education, technical training will move Viet Nam up on skills ladder

Viet Nam needs to improve the quality and relevance of upper secondary school and technical and vocational education and training to fill the rapid growth in medium-skill employment under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which will be introduced...

Blog article

Exploitation vs. forced labour -- What can we learn from international labour standards?

By Tim De Meyer, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

Labour Migration

In their own voices

An ILO-produced film documents the opportunities and obstacles on the path taken by migrant health-care workers from the Philippines.

Why inequality threatens the Asian miracle

By Tomoko Nishimoto, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific

Regional cooperation to strengthen occupational safety and health

Governments, employers and workers from 10 ASEAN member States and Pacific Island partners gathered in Manila to raise safety and health standards in the region.

Poverty reduction

How tourism makes a difference in poor areas of Viet Nam

Over the last three years, an International Labour Organization (ILO) project in Viet Nam has developed tourism-boosting jobs and reduced poverty in neglected areas.

ILO's Regional Director

New ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific

Ms Tomoko Nishimoto has taken up her post as the ILO's Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific since 12 January 2015.

Local economic development in Sri Lanka

Peace, prosperity and papayas

Her papaya crop is paying off for a widowed farmer helped by the ILO-supported LEED program, which has boosted business in fisheries, construction and agriculture.

New ILO's standards will help 21.5 million domestic workers

The Regional Model Competency Standards (RMCS) for Domestic Work will help more than 20 million domestic worker in Asia and the Pacific if ASEAN regional integration ensures the mutual recognition of skills of workers across borders, according to...

Q&A

Why is labour productivity important in economic integration?

ILO Viet Nam Director Gyorgy Sziraczki explains how the ASEAN Economic Community means to Viet Nam’s labour productivity and what the country can learn from its neighbours.

Social Security

ILO Viet Nam Director's Speech at the Reception on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Viet Nam Social Security

Mr Gyorgy Sziraczki, ILO Viet Nam Director, addresses the Anniversary of Vietnam Social Security on 22 Jan 2015 at Hilton Hanoi Opera, Hanoi.

Media Award

Labour and Employment Media Award worth $5,000 now opens for entries

Journalists can now submit your works to compete for Viet Nam’s Labour and Employment Media Award until 5 February.

Gender equality

More women in management is good for business

A new ILO study shows that Viet Nam ranks 76th out of 108 countries in proportion of women managers at 23 per cent. It also points out positive link between female leadership and business performance and urges boost from current 5 per cent of women...

Minimum wage

ILO calls on global garment buyers to help absorb Cambodia's new minimum wage

The new wage, which came into effect today (January 1), will raise factory owners' labour costs by nearly 20 per cent while their margins are shrinking.

No one should work this way

Ending the abuse of domestic workers in Asia

Although there are more than 52 million domestic workers world-wide, including more than 21 million in Asia Pacific, only a small minority are covered by general labour laws. This lack of protection leaves them vulnerable to – sometimes terrible –...

Labour migration and entrepreneurship

Skills for a brighter future

Refugees in a camp along Thai-Myanmar border are equipped with livelihood and buisness skills for a better future.

International Migrants Day (18 December)

When something goes wrong: the challenge for migrant workers

By Gyorgy Sziraczki, Director of ILO Country Office for Viet Nam

Labour migration

Avoiding the gamble: making migrant labour fairer

By Yoshiteru Uramoto, Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, International Labour Organization