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Vietnamese apparel factories producing a good bargain for all

Story of Dang Thu Hoan, a Vietnamese worker who helps produce around US$13 billion in textile export revenues for Viet Nam.

The dreamweaver of Lake Sebu

Story of Subi Nalon, the seventy-five-year-old inherited the skill from her mother and has been weaving t'nalak since he was 15.

Freeing Cambodia's children from work by 2016-A real possibility?

Story of Nit's family, her family lives in a shaky thatch hut a short walk from the magnificent Ta Prohm ruins in the Angkor World Heritage Site. Her grandfather abandoned his family 15 years ago, and with no farm land, everyone has done their bit...

Skills training holds rural families, communities together

Story of Tran Thi Thanh, a 43-year-old grandmother in My Loc, who acquired her first-ever passport and will use it to find work in Taiwan as a domestic worker.

Cambodia's young people look for a brighter future

Story of Yeth Chenda, 21-year-old Yeth CHenda recently found a job as a receptionist in a rural hotel in Kampot, Southern Cambodia, with the assistance of an International Labour Organization (ILO) job centre project

New films fight discrimination against HIV, disability

Two new videos aimed at fighting workplace discrimination are being released by the ILO to mark World AIDS Day on 1 December and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December.

Opinion editorial: A better world starts in the workplace

In preparation for the ILO’s 15th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting(APRM, to be held in Kyoto, Japan, 4-7 December, Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific discusses some of the important topics that will be...

Climate change consciousness week celebration

CCAP Gains Highlighted During the First Philippine Climate Change Consciousness Week Celebration

The Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP) presented to national and international stakeholders the gains of the three-year demonstration Project during the country’s first celebration of Climate Change Consciousness at the SMX Convention Center...

1st Migration & Development Plan launched in PHL Returning migrant workers to benefit from ILO partnership with local governments,...

The ILO Country Office for the Philippines (CO-Manila), through its European Union-supported Return and Reintegration Project, has partnered with the local government of La Union Province and other sectors which has produced the Philippines’...

ILO’s 15th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting to be held in Kyoto, Japan will consider employment, economic outlook

The 15th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) of the ILO will take place from 4-7 December 2011 at the Kyoto International Convention Centre (KICC), Kyoto, Japan.

Towards a greener and fairer society

Climate change means that resource scarcity and environmental degradation have become major, and urgent, challenges. In response, the ILO is promoting the concept of green jobs as a driving force towards a greener and fairer development path that...

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Asia and the Pacific: Bipartite Worker-Employer Workshop on Decent Work

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Colombo: Sub Regional Seminar on Strengthening Union Capacity in order to Achieve Decent Work

Stories of decent work in Asia and the Pacific

Losses from change rainfall patterns

Farmers Protected Against Losses from Change Rainfall Patterns

The Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) Regional Office 10, covering regions 10 and Caraga in Mindanao paid more than half a million pesos to 56 rice farmers, 27 of whom are women, 29 men in the Municipality of Buenavista.

Speaking notes for Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director of the International Labour Standards Department, ILO-Geneva

Presented at the Maritime Industry Tripartite Council Plenary Meeting held last 17 October 2011 at AMOSUP Convention Hall in Manila.

Rules and Regulations Governing the Employment and Working Conditions of Domestic Seafarers

At the Maritime Industry Tripartite Council Plenary Meeting held last 17 October 2011 at AMOSUP Convention Hall in Manila, the Maritime Industry Tripartite Council, Resolution No. 2, Series of 2011 was presented by Mr Hans Leo J. Cacdac,...

Maritime Industry Tripartite Council, Resolution No. 2, Series of 2011

At the Maritime Industry Tripartite Council Plenary Meeting held last 17 October 2011 at AMOSUP Convention Hall in Manila, the Maritime Industry Tripartite Council, Resolution No. 2, Series of 2011 was presented by Mr Hans Leo J. Cacdac,...

Local employment services to increase access to decent and productive work

Officials of the Department of Labor and Employment and the Public Employment Service Office from Agusan del Sur, Antique, Maguindanao and Masbate were trained on basic employment services.

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Seminar in Jakarta on Trade Union Capacity Building