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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.

ILO and Uzbekistan assess progress in cooperation during an online meeting

New Decent Work Country Programme will remain the primary framework for the ILO support to the Uzbek constituents. It will set new horizons of cooperation with increased focus on the COVID-19 longer term implications response. This was stated by...

COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!

Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social...

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Realizing an inclusive workplace in Indonesia’s new normal

Many persons with disabilities come into the COVID-19 crisis already facing significant exclusion in all areas of the world of work. The new normal may have provide a greater opportunity to realize inclusive workplace.

Coping with COVID-19 – Lesson from the Ethiopian garment and textile industry

With the purpose of sharing factories practices to prevent COVID-19 and improve workers’ well being, the ILO programme on advancing decent work and inclusive industrialisation (SIRAYE) hosted the second webinar series with over 20 factories across...

World Oceans Day

ILO: Release more than 150,000 seafarers trapped on board ships due to COVID-19

Seafarers should be treated as ‘key workers’ so they can safely return home, says the International Labour Organization.

Rapid assessment highlights impact of COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable workers and small-scale businesses in Lebanon

The assessment examines how the crisis has affected employment and livelihoods of Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugee workers, as well as the new challenges now facing small-scale enterprises in an already fragile economy.

Towards building the capacity of labour migration analysts in the IGAD region

ILO and JICA Co-organize Online Study Session on Child Labour and Business

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organised an online study Session on Child Labour and Business on how to strengthen the collaboration in the area of child labour in order to...

Webinar on the Role of institutions, including PES, in protecting jobs and delivering services to vulnerable groups

ILO Moscow continues the series of five webinars “From the immediate crisis response to COVID pandemic towards economic recovery with decent work in focus”.

Cambodia and UN step up efforts to promote Decent Employment for Youth

A joint programme will help school-to-work transition of young women and men in Cambodia.

Trade Union Movement

Recovering from the COVID-19 crisis: What policies are needed?

For workers, what risks and opportunities has the COVID-19 crisis brought about? Catelene Passchier, Chair of the Workers’ Group of the ILO Governing Body shares her views on the policies needed to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. She also calls...

COVID-19 and the World of Work

Impact of pandemic requires massive state intervention in North Macedonia: ILO and EBRD advise government on labour market after...

The ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) established a joint task force to assess the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the region’s economies. The EBRD/ILO Task Force was...

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.

Difficulties in obtaining e-wallet financial accounts could jeapardize workers’ wages

Online poll by the Jordanian National Commission for Women and the International Labour Organization show that 58% of males and 57% of females could not create e-wallet financial accounts. Yet such accounts are key to wage protection.

Functional Self-Assessment for Public Works Fund Launched in Uzbekistan

Designed by ILO specialists, the PWF functional self-assessment methodology was introduced amid COVID-19 pandemic to the management and specialists of the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations at a webinar on May 26, 2020.

Subregional Webinar “Social Protection Response to impact of COVID -19 crisis”

On 22 May the ILO DWT/CO Moscow held a Subregional Webinar “Social Protection Response to impact of COVID -19 crisis” for the ILO constituents and stakeholders. It was the first webinar in a series of webinars devoted to social protection response...

Prioritizing Security and Health Policies at Work is Necessary for the Post COVID-19 Reactivation of Production and Employment to be Safe...

ECLAC and the ILO presented a new joint publication in which they analyze labour challenges in the wake of the pandemic. The organizations indicate that the crisis will likely cause 11.5 million more people to be unemployed in Latin America and the...

COVID-19 and the World of Work

ILO forecasts Western Balkan economies will lose 11.6 per cent hours worked in Q2 due to pandemic

ILO global estimates show that the COVID-19 crisis is causing an unprecedented reduction in economic activity and working time. The ILO estimates for quarter 2 indicate that the Western Balkans will lose 11.6 per cent of hours worked due to the...

Webinar on Employment and Labour Market Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic

ILO Moscow has launched a series of five webinars “From the immediate crisis response to COVID pandemic towards economic recovery with- decent work in focus”.