All news: Arab States

ILO COOP sends a message to the MedUp Project Peer Review Meeting in Tunis

The message from ILO COOP Manager focused on the role of the ILO in the development of cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) and how they can contribute to the promotion of gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa...

Labour Inspection Conference

The First Palestinian National Labour Inspection Conference

Inclusion of refugees and displaced persons in the labour market with a humanitarian development focus

ILO and constituents share experiences and good practices in the inclusion of refugees and displaced persons in the labour market, during an event aimed at encouraging a more coherent approach to the promotion of decent work in crisis settings.

SADA Women’s Cooperative in Turkey was selected as one of the 10 projects for scaling up by the Paris Peace Forum

The cooperative was formed by women from host and refugee communities to undertake collective income generation activities with the support of the ILO. The cooperative was selected as one of ten projects to be scaled up and mentored by the Paris...

Towards improving skills in the Garment & Leather and the Chemical & Cosmetics sectors

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) under the umbrella of “Applying the G20 Training Strategy Project: A Partnership of the ILO and the Russian Federation”, facilitated two workshops on validating the results of field study examining the...

FAIRWAY produces easy-to-read factsheets on laws governing migrant workers in the Arab States

The ILO’s FAIRWAY Project has mapped out the key legal provisions dealing with migrant workers in English across eight Arab countries to provide greater access to information for the general public.

ILO signs new agreement with the Netherlands on forced displacement response

PROSPECTS Partnership: Putting decent work at the nexus between humanitarian action and development cooperation

ILO and SKOLKOVO releasing first-ever computer-based simulator in Arabic to train TVET managers

The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) “Applying the G20 Training Strategy: A Partnership between the ILO and the Russian Federation” Project (Phase 2) in partnership with Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo) hosted a five-day training on...

Promoting Formal Employment in Arab States (Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq): Transition from Informal to Formal Economy

ILOITC training examines informal employment in the Arab region, in particular in the context of crisis- impacted countries such as Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan and offers a platform to discuss ways to promote formal employment and enterprises, to...

Social Dialogue: Key to Achieving the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals

Promoting participatory social dialogue is a fundamental means to address the challenges and seize the opportunities that are emerging from changes in the wold of work and technological advances, writes the ILO’s Shaza Jondi.

Strategic compliance

Strategic Compliance sub-regional workshop in Beirut

The ILO's Regional Office for Arab States and the Labour Administration, Labour Inspection and Occupational Safety and Health Branch organized a sub-regional office in Beirut from 30 July to 2 August 2019 to introduce the ILO's strategic compliance...

International Day of Cooperatives

Message from ILO's Director-General Guy Ryder for International Cooperative Day 2019

The 2019 International Day of Cooperatives will be celebrated on Saturday 6 July. This year, in commemoration of the ILO’s centenary, the theme is "cooperatives for decent work" which is closely linked to SDG8. On this occasion ILO Director-General...

New report

Increase in heat stress predicted to bring productivity loss equivalent to 80 million jobs

Global warming is expected to result in an increase in work-related heat stress, damaging productivity and causing job and economic losses. The poorest countries will be worst affected.

SADA Women’s Cooperative in Turkey selected for the Paris Peace Forum

Roll-out of Think.Coop and Start.Coop in the occupied Palestinian territory

108th International Labour Conference

International Labour Conference ends with adoption of key Convention and Declaration

The International Labour Conference adopts landmark instruments on violence and harassment and a Declaration on the future of work. The Conference concluded its two-week session, which marked the Centenary of the ILO.

108th International Labour Conference

New international labour standard to combat violence, harassment, at work agreed

The Centenary International Labour Conference has adopted a new Convention and Recommendation to combat violence and harassment in the workplace.

108th International Labour Conference - ASPAG ministerial meeting

Asia-Pacific and Arab States labour ministers: Harness opportunities of the future, for decent work for all

Asia Pacific Group (ASPAG) labour ministers met on sidelines of the Centenary session of the International Labour Conference to exchange ideas on generating Decent Work for sustainable development in the wider Asia Pacific region.

Strengthening institutional capacities on social and solidarity economy development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The ILO initiative aims to improve economic and social rights and conditions for the Palestinian population through cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE).

Speech

ILO Regional Director Ruba Jaradat’s address to the 46th Session of the Arab Labour Conference

At the Arab Labour Conference in Cairo, Jaradat spoke of the challenges and opportunities presented by the labour market in Arab States, and highlighted some of the results achieved by countries in the region with the support of the ILO. During the...