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Pakistan Marks International Nurses Day 2025 with High-Level Dialogue on Decent Work for Nurses

World Day for Safety and Health

Eswatini’s national workplace wellness policy sets a regional benchmark for worker wellbeing

ILO Country Office for Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and South Africa welcomes Eswatini’s bold step towards healthier, safer, and more inclusive workplaces

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

For a future of work not only smarter, but also safer and healthier

On World Day for Safety and Health at Work, the ILO Director-General calls to harness technology to create safer, healthier workplaces – while ensuring innovation protects workers' rights and well-being.

ILOSTAT blog

The right to occupational safety and health: Still unrealized

Press release

MoU signed to strengthen decent working conditions for health workers in Punjab

The new collaboration marks a bold step forward in safeguarding the rights, health, and dignity of those who dedicate their lives to caring for others.

ILO launches Social Health Protection Toolkit on World Health Day

The toolkit provides expertise and practical tools to help Member States achieve universal health coverage and social protection for all.

Workplace Inclusion

Tanzania launches National Business and Disability Network to champion workplace inclusion

Tanzania has launched its National Business and Disability Network (NBDN) to promote workplace inclusion for persons with disabilities. Led by the Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) and Sightsavers, with technical support by the International...

Empowering coffee farmers: Snakebite awareness training by ILO Vision Zero Fund and Nestlé Indonesia

The ILO Vision Zero Fund and Nestlé Indonesia jointly enhance knowledge and protect Indonesian coffee farmers from the significant biological hazard of snakebites.

Mental health at work in the era of digitalization

Empowering workplaces in driving change

ILO's commitment to non-discrimination, equality, diversity and inclusion in South Africa

Social protection

Siargao provides one-stop social protection, employment services

One-Stop Island Services provide social protection registration and education, as well as livelihood support and employment opportunities in Siargao.

ILO underlines urgent need to improve working conditions of care workers

At a conference on affordable high-quality home-based, community and residential care services, the ILO underlined the need for integrated long-term care that upholds the rights of older people and caregivers alike.

ILO Resolution on Decent Work and the Care Economy moves ahead

Strategies and recommendations contained in the key Resolution on promoting decent work in the care economy were discussed at a high-level webinar convened to mark the UN’s International Day of Care and Support and ahead of consideration by the ILO...

Safety and health

Philippines unveils occupational safety and health strategy

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), with ILO support, launches the National Occupational Safety and Health Strategy at the 2024 Labor Inspection Summit in Manila, aiming to improve workplace safety and health.

Video

Enhancing OSH standards: Training farmers and agricultural workers in Lebanon's agricultural sector

Learn about ILO PROSPECTS initiative that aims to raise awareness of OSH in agriculture among farmers and agricultural workers to create decent working conditions and reduce risks in Lebanon.

Media Advisory

ILO to release new report on global impact of heat stress on workers

The International Labour Organization (ILO) will publish a new report titled "Heat at work: Implications for safety and health", which examines the growing threat of heat stress to workers worldwide and its economic implications.

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Don't find fault, find value: Preliminary seminars for ILO Youth Congress started

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is hosting a pitch contest for youth at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. This major event, spanning two years from 2024 to 2026, begins with preliminary seminars starting in July 2024.

Social protection

Coconut farm workers register for social protection coverage

Coconut farm workers and their families in typhoon-affected areas enrol for social protection coverage online through free internet access and interactive orientation in Siargao.

PROSPECTS Partnership

ILO trains social health protection actors in Ethiopia

Social Health Protection training equips Ethiopian social health protection actors with the knowledge and experience to strengthen health financing and social health protection systems.

HIV/AIDS and Safety and Health

UN Agencies launch joint Effort to end the triple threat in Kenya

UN agencies and the Government of Kenya have launched a joint effort in Homa Bay to tackle the Triple Threat—HIV, GBV, and teen pregnancies—aiming to protect and empower adolescents.