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Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia

What moves the needle on gender equality in the garment sector?

Dialogue, men’s involvement, good legislation and time. A new report from ILO identifies these and other ingredients of successful actions to eliminate gender inequality in Asia’s garment sector.

Case story

Awareness campaign helps RMG workers’ communities fight against COVID-19

Parvin Akhter introduced mask wearing and hand washing practice in her family (comprising four children and her husband) and encouraged her neighbours to do the same to help prevent COVID-19 from spreading in Munshi Bari, a small community mostly...

International Women's Day

Indonesia’s garment industry to combat gender inequality and empower women workers

Better Work Indonesia (BWI), a partnership of the ILO and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), promotes gender equality through a series of training programmes providing a greater chance for women workers to grow and develop.

Generating evidence and informing policy – The SCORE approach to productivity and competitiveness.

The Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) hosted a consultative workshop with key government and private sector stakeholders following the conclusion of the 3-year implementation of SCORE programme in Ethiopia.

Forced and child labour

Uzbek cotton is free from systemic child labour and forced labour

Almost two million people are recruited every year for the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. The country has succeeded in eradicating systemic forced labour and systemic child labour during the 2021 cotton production cycle, according to new ILO...

ILO Voices | Social dialogue

I am a champion for migrant workers

ILO and apparel leaders join hands to strengthen Safety Committees

The ILO has signed new agreements with two leading apparel associations in Bangladesh to continue its ongoing work on improving working conditions in the country

Our impact, their voices

Vaccines for garment workers to end the transmission of COVID-19 at workplace

The ILO’s Better Work programme and the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) join forces to provide more than 21 thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Indonesia’s garment industry in Semarang, Central Java.

Occupational safety and health

ILO fire safety campaign reaches out to half a million Bangladeshis

Successful Facebook campaign helps spread the word on prevention and protection against fire in the workplace

ILO conducts a customized training on occupational safety and health for handloom small/ micro enterprises

The ILO, Pakistan under its International Labour and Environmental Standards Application in Pakistan's SMEs (ILES) project, funded by the European Union, conducts customised trainings on Occupational Safety and Health for handloom small and micro...

Capacity Building of Women workers to take up seniors leadership positions through the Women Leadership Development Program

ILO, the Netherlands ink agreement to support Viet Nam to better address future skills needs in garment sector

Occupational safety and health

Bangladesh has its first Occupational Safety and Health Profile in place

More than 20,000 garment workers in Lao PDR benefit from income support and occupational safety and health measures

Lao Social Security Organization initiative funded by German government and supported by International Labour Organization helps garment workers hit by COVID-19 pandemic.

Migrant worker rights and recruitment

COVID-19 has made life even more precarious for migrant workers

Stranded in their destination countries or forced to leave, unemployed and with no access to social protection, migrant workers have suffered the worst of the pandemic.

Child labour in Burkina Faso

Prevention of child labour through the socio-professional reintegration of children withdrawn from the cotton, textile and garment value...

Ouagadougou (ILO News) - The CLEAR Cotton project is strengthening its strategy to combat child labour in Burkina Faso. It recently signed two agreements for the implementation of integrated programmes for the prevention, identification and...

Project to develop Guidelines for responsible business practices in Japanese textile industry

ILO and JTF sign an agreement to harness the responsible business practices in Japanese textile industry

- Launching the Development of Guidelines for Supply Chain Due Diligence -

Textiles, clothing, leather and footwear

Asia garment and textile industry seeks path to bright and sustainable future

Representatives from ten Asian countries discuss challenges facing industry in aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic and global trends shaping the sector.

More women in leadership for a sustainable garment and textile industry in Ethiopia.

The ILO Siraye programme on advancing decent work and inclusive industrialization has launched a leadership development intervention on March 2021 as part of its women empowerment objective.

World Mental Health Day

Better Work Indonesia promotes mental health and gender equality for garment industry

Better Work Indonesia (BWI), a joint programme of ILO and IFC, member of World Bank Group conducts a series of knowledge-sharing sessions to promote mental health and gender equality at its participating garment companies during the pandemic...