All news: migrant workers, social protection
Global Media Competition: Online anthology on Migrant Domestic Workers
Since 2015, the International Labour Organization and its partners have organized an annual Global Media Competition on labour migration to recognize exemplary media coverage on labour migration and fair recruitment.
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.
Access to protection and remedies for victims of human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation
Last week, ILO Brussels and SIOD jointly organised an online workshop on ‘Access to protection and remedies for victims of human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation’.
Participants thought about the Labour Migration Analysis virtual meetings
Policy framework for inclusion of internal migrants is crucial, finds ILO report
Report offers road map for betterment of India’s internal migrant workers and their families, who are struggling to recover from the COVID-19 impact.
World Aids Day
Reaching migrant workers under VCT@WORK in Gujarat, India in times of COVID-19
COVID-19 hit millions of migrant workers hard in India. They lost livelihoods and were at a heightened risk of COVID-19 during the lockdown. Recognizing that large inter-state and rural to urban migration also aggravates the risk of HIV infection,...
ILO support towards revision of labour migration national legislations in Uganda
Annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank
ILO: The world economy needs a new engine of economic recovery
In written statements to the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder warned against higher levels of poverty and inequality resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. Highlighting the urgent need for social protection...
G20 Tourism Ministers’ Meeting
Tourism can kickstart economic recovery, with the right policy support, ILO Director-General tells G20 Ministers
Tourism can play a critical role in kickstarting the global economy, but special measures to support vulnerable worker groups will be essential, along with social dialogue and effective cross-sectoral policies.
Promoting decent work for all
Indonesia launches its Decent Work Country Programme 2020-2025 (DWCP) as a response to the fast changing world of work
As a response to the fast changes in the world of work, including the changing of employment regulations, Indonesia identified three employment priorities to realize decent work in the country.
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
COVID-19 leads to massive labour income losses worldwide
A new ILO analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 reveals a “massive” drop in labour income and a fiscal stimulus gap that threatens to increase inequality between richer and poorer countries.
New challenges, new opportunities
The socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. There is probably no worker or business in the world that has not been affected. The latest ILO estimates show that working hour losses have worsened during the first...
Joint Op-Ed ECLAC, ILO & UN Geneva
Building back better: Equality at the centre
We must put equality and environmental sustainability at the centre of the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virtual Global Summit
ILO Global Summit builds commitment to create better world of work after COVID-19
Global leaders discussed strategies to ensure the world of work after the COVID-19 pandemic tackles the vulnerabilities exposed by the outbreak, including a lack of social protection, the informal economy, inequality and climate change.
Virtual Global Summit
Global leaders to address ILO Virtual Global Summit on COVID-19 and the World of Work
The largest ever online gathering of workers, employers and governments will discuss how to build back better in the post-pandemic recovery.
Virtual Global Summit
Regional events pave the way for global discussions on COVID-19 and the World of Work
Participants from five ILO regions discussed the challenges of recovery and building back better, and their conclusions will feed into discussions at a ILO virtual Global Summit.
COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment
As jobs crisis deepens, ILO warns of uncertain and incomplete labour market recovery
The International Labour Organization’s latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 finds its impact on the world of work was more severe than previously estimated, and offers three scenarios for the second half of 2020.
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
ILO warns of COVID-19 migrant ‘crisis within a crisis’
Policies need to be put in place to protect stranded migrant workers and to ensure the reintegration of those who return to their home countries, says the International Labour Organization.
COVID-19 and child labour
COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF
Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat.
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
ILO: More than one in six young people out of work due to COVID-19
The ILO’s latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 exposes the devastating and disproportionate effect on young workers, and analyses measures being taken to create a safe return to work environment.