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ILO COOP participates in the launch of the global network of home-based workers, HomeNet International

ILO COOP Unit participated in the launching congress of the global network of home-based workers as an observer and provided a message of solidarity.

InfoStories

The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work

Can digital labour platforms create fair competition and decent jobs? Explore the ILO report's main findings and key data to find out about the platform economy's impact on workers and enterprises.

StreetNet International organises an orientation session on cooperatives and the informal economy

ILO COOP Unit Manager presented at an orientation session organised by StreetNet International for its regional coordinators on cooperatives’ role in the informal economy

ILO teams ups with NSSA to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on informal economy work spaces

Recognizing the great challenge that governments, employers, workers and societies are facing worldwide to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) partnered with the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) on a...

Community Emergency Employment Programme

A fight for survival amid the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected workers in the informal economy like Mohalidin. A father of 15 children, he shares his experience and life changing impact basic income and social protection can have for families struggling to survive.

Webinar: How COVID-19 has Increased Vulnerability in the Informal Sector: Business Environment Solutions

Media advisory

ILO to release report on the impact of digital labour platforms on the world of work

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a new UNDP-ILO report calls for social protection for workers in the informal economy

Working from home

Homeworkers need to be better protected, says the ILO

The dramatic increase in working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the poor working conditions experienced by many homeworkers who, prior to the crisis, numbered an estimated 260 million people worldwide.

Seminar on social security for workers in flexible employment

The EU-China Project “Improving China’s Institutional Capacity towards Universal Social Protection” organized a seminar in Beijing on social security for workers in flexible employment.

New ILO - Belgium programme

Supporting Burkina Faso and Senegal to promote social protection

The Government of Belgium and the International Labour Organization will support the strengthening and extension of national social protection systems in Burkina Faso and Senegal to increase coverage of informal economy workers and their families,...

APESO 2020

81 million jobs lost as COVID-19 creates turmoil in Asia-Pacific labour markets

Pandemic leads to huge reduction in working hours, reverses job growth and pushes millions into working poverty.

Lessons learned from Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) policy development in South Africa

Social Economy

Focus on labour platforms in China: seizing the opportunities, tackling the challenges

To get a better understanding of new business models and their impact on workers, companies and society at large, the ILO organized a discussion on December 8 focusing on the Chinese situation.

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.

Global Wage Report 2020-21

COVID-19 drives wages down, new ILO report finds

Even before the COVID pandemic hit, hundreds of millions of workers worldwide were being paid less than the minimum wage.

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,...

World Aids Day

Advocating for an all-inclusive, inter-sectoral COVID-19 response in the world of work in Malawi

COVID-19 exacerbated inequalities in a short time. Groups already marginalized ran the risk of being further left behind. The world of work response in Malawi was built around the SDG commitment of leaving no one behind. As part of the UN country...

World Aids Day

Building an integrated workplace response to HIV and COVID-19 in Indonesia

The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Council of the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Health, and the ILO organized eight national public dialogues with a view to finding ways to build an integrated workplace response to HIV and COVID-19 in...

Jamaica to increase formal employment in domestic work, agriculture and fisheries

Through an ILO-funded initiative, government and social partners will seek to reduce vulnerabilities of informal businesses and workers in three sectors