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Mining sector
Chief inspectors of mines express determination to safeguard the lives of miners
A national consultative meeting of the Chief Inspectors of Mines (CIMs) was convened in Quetta to foster experience sharing and discuss capacity building needs for the improvement of working and safety conditions in the mining sector of Pakistan.
Impact stories
How the ILO helps to prevent mining accidents in Ukraine
Ukraine is among the countries with the highest rates of work accidents in mines. Therefore the ILO trains miners on the prevention of accidents in the industry.
Caring Gold Mining Project: Commemorates World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL), 2018 in Ghana
The ILO through its ILO Caring Gold Mining Project, supports World Day against Child Labour (WDACL)-2018 activities in Ghana under the theme “Resist Child Labour! Improve the Safety and Health of Young Workers towards achieving SDG Goal8”.
Generation Safe and Healthy
Message at the Generation Safe and Healthy Children’s Summit and Celebration of the World Day against Child Labour
By Khalid Hassan, Country Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, delivered by Ma. Concepcion Sardaña, Senior Programme Officer at the Generation Safe and Healthy Children’s Summit and Celebration of the World Day against Child Labour, 30...
Child labour
Keynote address at the Philippine Fashion Week
By Khalid Hassan, Country Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, delivered by Hideki Kagohashi, Enterprise Development Specialist at the Philippine Fashion Week, 26 May 2018, Makati, Philippines
Child labour
Philippines pioneers responsible and ethical gold brand in Fashion Week
The Philippines blazed the trail for responsible and ethical gold from artisanal and small-scale gold mines (ASGM) with the launch of the Compassionate Gold brand at the Philippine Fashion Week. The Compassionate Gold is among the innovative...
Opening Remarks at High Level Meeting on Sectoral Collective Bargaining in the Coal Mine Sector on Job-Based Wage System
By Mr Tim De Meyer, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia
Occupational Safety and Health
Advancing Pakistan’s occupational safety and health legislation through social dialogue
The ILO, in cooperation with the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development organized a two-day National Tripartite Consultation on OSH in the mining sector. The Consultation took stock of the OSH situation in the mining sector,...
National Tripartite Consultation
Consensus emerges to escalate efforts for improved OSH conditions of Pakistan’s mine workers
The ILO, in cooperation with the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development organized a two-day National Tripartite Consultation on OSH in the mining sector. The Consultation took stock of the OSH situation in the mining sector,...
VCT@WORK
Testing for HIV at the workplace – on the farm, in the mines and at the hairdressers
Over 4.1 million workers took HIV test in 18 countries as part of ILO’s efforts to fast track HIV testing.
Occupational Safety and Health
New ILO Project aims to reduce work accidents and occupational diseases in Ukrainian mines
ILO News talked to Kenichi Hirose, Senior Social Protection Specialist, ILO-Budapest, and Iryna Peksheva, National Project Coordinator, Kyiv, about a new ILO project aimed at improving safety and health for Ukrainian miners. In June, they visited...
Our impact, their voices
See you at my "playground": Tackling child labour in gold mining
How an ILO project in the Philippines addresses the consequences of climate change and child labour, while improving working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
Improving Safety and Health in the Mining Industry
ILO launches project to improve safety and health in the mining industry of Ukraine
The ILO will support Ukraine to improve the safety and health conditions in mining work.
Child labour
Opening address at the One with the children in ending child labour (Makiisa para sa #1MBatangMalaya)
By Mr Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the One with the children in ending child labour (Makiisa para sa #1MBatangMalaya), Quezon City, 12 January 2017
Mining accidents in Tanzania: A lesson to why reducing hazards is paramount in mining safety.
Last week of January 2017, Tanzania witnessed a near fatal mining accident in Geita region where a shaft collapsed and trapped 15 miners. The miners were buried in the rubble 38 meters underground after a shaft at the Chinese-owned Goldmine...
ILO to support Ghana to eliminate child labour in the gold mining sector
Through the Caring Gold Mining project, ILO commits to provide support to Ghana to eliminate child labour and improve working conditions.
Child labour
Opening address at the National consultation of the Convening actors to develop and implement strategies to reduce child labour and improve...
By Khalid Hassan, Director of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the National consultation of the Convening actors to develop and implement strategies to reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold...
Occupational Safety and Health
ILO Conventions on Safety and Health in Construction and Mining enter into force for Turkey
As part of the efforts to improve safety and health in the hazardous sectors of mining and construction, the Government is now bound to apply the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167) and the Safety and Health in Mining...
Occupational Health and Safety
Study on “Contractual arrangements in Turkey’s coal mines” published
This study, which emphasizes the need for a national policy in mining ensuring not only a continued development of Turkey’s national resources, but also the safety and health all workers engaged in the industry, was sponsored by the ILO and was...
Occupational Health and Safety
Recent study launched by ILO and TEPAV calls for the development of a national policy on mining
An International Labour Organization (ILO)-sponsored study prepared in cooperation with the Turkish Economic Policy Research Foundation (TEPAV) emphasizes the need for a national policy in mining which ensures not only a continued development of...