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Caribbean labour market in focus
The Caribbean labour market paradox: What the 2026 ILO report reveals
The key question in the Caribbean is not whether people are working, but whether work itself is becoming a stronger engine for prosperity, inclusion, and resilience.
EU-Funded ILO Project news update
PROSPER project sharpens its focus in readiness for community action in southern Belize
The EU-funded PROSPER project reviews the concrete steps it has taken that set the stage for accelerated implementation in 2026, particularly for communities in southern Belize engaged in cacao and tourism.
Marrakech Global Framework for Action urges scaled implementation to end child labour
The framework, adopted at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, aims to accelerate progress and reaffirms the importance of prioritizing the elimination of child labour in international sustainable development frameworks.
Strengthening Guyana’s Seafood Value Chain through One UN Action
FAO, ILO, and ITC Partner to Enhance Linkages in Guyana’s Seafood Sector
A joint FAO–ILO–ITC workshop held in Guyana strengthens the country’s seafood value chain by improving market, finance, and business linkages for fisheries cooperatives and agrifood MSMEs. This is part of the FISH4ACP programme working to build a...
Voices of Action - Child labour
A library in Argentina protects children from labour in informal settlements
Located near a waste-picking area in José León Suárez, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, a community library offers books, care, and a safe alternative to the streets and child labour.
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...
EU-funded ILO PROSPER Project
Belize communities validate regional value chain study
Community leaders and stakeholders in Toledo, Belize validated the findings of a regional value chain study, confirming tourism and agroforestry, particularly cacao, as priority sectors for inclusive, community-driven economic development.
CLEAR Supply Chains Project
European Union highlights that complementarity between implementing agencies has been key to advancing towards more responsible supply...
Representatives of the European Union Delegation in Honduras carried out a follow-up mission in the departments of Copán, Lempira, and Intibucá to assess the progress of the CLEAR Supply Chains Project, an initiative co-financed by the European...
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...
Transnational Company Agreements in 2025 focused on fundamental rights, safety at work, and due diligence
The recently updated section of the ILO Repository on Cross-Border Social Dialogue identified environmental issues and technological changes as priorities.
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Human trafficking prevention month: Making the invisible visible
January marks Human Trafficking Prevention Month. An ILO senior researcher explains how the Standard Tools for Analysing Trafficking in Persons (STATIP) project, created with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat...
Strengthening skills for the future
ILO–NIHERST collaboration for evidence-based workforce development in Trinidad and Tobago
A collaboration between the ILO and National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST) in Trinidad and Tobago has produced five sectoral skills studies, offering robust, sector-specific labour market evidence, that is...
Building peace from the ground up
Green skills and new economic opportunities for youth in Haiti
In Jérémie, Haiti, with the support of the ILO and the UN Peacebuilding Fund, youth are transforming bamboo into sustainable livelihoods through skills and entrepreneurship training.
EU-funded ILO PROSPER Project
Community-led economic planning takes shape in Southern Belize
The pilot of a Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) in Hopkins and Seine Bight demonstrated how community-led planning can generate practical, locally owned priorities for inclusive and sustainable economic development in Southern...
ILO constituents and partners strengthen knowledge on the social and solidarity economy to advance social justice
The ILO convened a technical knowledge-sharing event in Turin, bringing together constituents and partners from countries where it has been actively supporting the promotion of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) for social justice. Participants...
Productivity exchange
Accelerating Caribbean productivity: A South-South exchange blueprint
The ILO Caribbean Productivity Exchange is helping Caribbean countries build modern, inclusive, and evidence-based productivity systems.
Labour Overview 2025
Employment holds steady in Latin America and the Caribbean, but informality and inequality persist
In its newly released Labour Overview 2025, the ILO finds that despite gains, structural gaps and informality persist as changes in the world of work demand attention.
Quality apprenticeships
ILO champions quality apprenticeships at the SAGE Apprenticeship Summit in Saint Lucia
The ILO’s participation in the SAGE Apprenticeship Summit in Saint Lucia highlighted how Quality Apprenticeships, guided by Recommendation No. 208, can strengthen inclusive skills development, social dialogue, and pathways to decent and green jobs.
G7 Labour and Employment Ministers
ILO urges bold G7 action to empower youth for future of work
ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, calls on G7 Ministers to tackle barriers, prepare young people for technological transformation, and create opportunities for their inclusion in labour markets.
Decent work
Grenada charts path to decent work: Tripartite partners unite in landmark workshop
Tripartite stakeholders from Grenada's government, employers, workers' unions, in addition to civil society united in a landmark workshop to validate the Decent Work Country Diagnostic for the nation's first Decent Work Country Programme.
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