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In Kyrgyzstan, employment and training programmes help stem a rural exodus

Providing decent employment in agriculture for young people is an immense challenge but mass migration from rural to urban areas has led to poverty in and around cities. Appropriate employment and training programmes can help regulate the rate of...

Peace, security and work in Timor-Leste

By Jose Assalino, Chief Technical Advisor, Timor-Leste. As a newly independent country with a fledgling economy, Timor-Leste faces many social and economic challenges. To help the Timorese people find decent work the ILO started three new...

Campaign for hazard-free, child labour-free agriculture in Thailand

Thai government officials, employers, workers, non-governmental organizations, private sector representatives, teachers, students and the International Labour Organization (ILO) join forces today to work towards a hazard-free, child-labour-free...

World Day Against Child Labour 2007: New global partnership against child labour in agriculture

The International Labour Organization (ILO) today joined forces with five key international agricultural organizations to launch a new landmark global partnership to tackle child labour in agriculture.

Feature story from the Philippines: Making future harvests without child labour

Seventy per cent of the world’s working children are in agriculture. From tending cattle to harvesting crops, handling dangerous machinery and spraying pesticides, over 132 million children aged 5 to 14 help produce the food we eat and the clothes...

Media Advisory: World Day Against Child Labour 2007

June 12th is observed globally as World Day against Child Labour.  The theme for this year’s observance is child workers in agriculture.

12 june 2007 - World Day Against Child Labour to focus on elimination of child labour in agriculture

This year’s World Day Against Child Labour on 12 June is to focus on the elimination of child labour in agriculture, which accounts for a staggering percentage of the world’s working children and is one of the most dangerous forms of work for...

ILO project helps Viet Nam create 28,000 safety & health improvements

A three-year programme to improve occupational safety and health in Viet Nam ’s agriculture has resulted in about 28,000 individual improvements in working and living conditions for the farmers involved.

Creating a "socialist harmonious society in the countryside": Towards universal health insurance in rural China

In 2003, the government launched a New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NRCMI) with an ambitious objective of covering all rural residents by 2010. The new health insurance system is seen as a central pillar of the government's plan to improve...