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Advocates walk for a child-labour free Bukidnon

Bukidnon - Around 3,000 anti-child labour advocates, government officials and programme partners flooded the street of Malaybalay City during the Walk for a Child Labour-Free Bukidnon held on Labour Day, 1 May.

44TH Biennial Delegates Conference of Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC): Address by Dan Cunniah, Director of Bureau for Workers’...

The FTUC 44TH Biennial Delegates Conference, 12TH May, 2012 at the Tanoa International, Hotel, Nadi.

Workshop on Poverty Reduction and Decent Work through Tourism: Dcent work needed to sustain tourism development

The two-day workshop on Poverty Reduction and Decent Work through Tourism, organised by the ILO in the central resort city of Hoi An which gave a focus on pro-poor tourism and provided an opportunity for policymakers, stakeholders, employers and...

Eight blocks for building better working lives

May 1st is Labour Day, an opportunity to reflect on the near-universal experience of work, its quality and quantity. One ILO initiative is seeking to achieve 100 per cent ratification of the eight ILO Conventions covering fundamental labour...

Domestic workers – ‘family’ or employees?

Almost a year ago, in June 2011, a milestone event took place that promised to improve the lives of millions of working people – mostly women - worldwide, including more than a quarter of a million in Hong Kong and potentially as many as 20 million...

Seminar on Promoting Occupational Safety and Health in a Green Economy

To respond to the World day for Safety and Health at Work, ILO Country office for Viet Nam collaborated with MOLISA organize a Meeting and other information activities on 26 April 2012. The Day this year focuses on the topic “Promoting Occupational...

New database on national responses to global economic crisis

The ILO and the World Bank (WB) have created a comprehensive new database that for the first time lists and examines the policy responses taken by 77 countries since the start of the financial and economic crisis.

Occupational safety and health

Garment workers run for safety in 2012

Over 3,600 garment workers will run this Sunday 22th April at 6:30am at Binh Duong New City, Binh Duong Province. This is 3rd year, Better Work organize this event as part of a safety campaign to mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

Promoting youth employment through local economic development

Local governments play a pivotal role to strengthen local economic development in the context of promoting youth employment.

Entrepreneurship a career option to address youth employment challenge in Maguindanao

Young people from Maguindanao often leave their hometown to work in Manila, urban areas, or overseas due to limited opportunities. Maguindanao, a province in South Central Mindanao was the 6th poorest province in the Philippines in 2011 based on...

Local partnerships forged to create employment opportunities for the youth

Public and private sector partners have pledged their support to young people in Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur. These young people were among those trained by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Technical Skills and...

ILO launches a video contest on Decent Work for Youth

Tripartite Youth Employment Forum

The forum established a platform for interaction among young people, policy-makers and the social partners to discuss the current situation and identify best practices, put forward recommendations to promote decent work for young people in Vietnam.

Viet Nam to host ASEAN seminar on unemployment protection and employability

Strategies to protect workers against unemployment, help them find better work will be reviewed at an ILO-ASEAN Seminar in Ho Chi Minh City, from 20 to 22 March 2012.

ILO launches video contest for young people

The ILO is launching a video contest for young people (aged 18 to 29 years) to allow them to show how the global jobs crisis is affecting their lives. Three winners will be invited to Geneva (all expenses paid) to attend the ILO Youth Employment...

Tuvalu ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

The Government of Tuvalu deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). Tuvalu, which became an ILO member in 2008, is the fifth member State from the Asia-Pacific...

Ukraine adopts the National Tripartite Cooperation Strategy on HIV and AIDS in the World of Work

Address by Dr Sachiko Yamamoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific

Address delivered at the Inaugural Session of the IBSA International Conference on South-South Cooperation 'Innovations in Public Employment Programmes and Sustainable Inclusive Growth'.

Campaign for domestic workers’ rights gathers pace

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, 8 March, is “Empower Rural Women, End Poverty and Hunger”. One path that many rural women take to escape poverty is to become a domestic worker in a big city household or overseas. Yet when they...

ILO meets Philippine embassy officials, trade unions, migrant groups in Paris, Rome

PARIS, FRANCE—Representatives from the International Labour Organization (ILO) conducted meetings at the Philippine Embassies in Paris and Rome this month to validate the results of the European Union (EU)-funded research that sought to improve...