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HIV self-testing at workplaces in Zimbabwe

The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) of Zimbabwe, together with ILO, UNITAID, Populations Services International (PSI) and the National Aids Council (NAC), have implemented a HIV Self Testing (HIV/ST) initiative in ten companies. The...

Enhancing Access to HIV Testing and social protection in Kenya

The ILO is prioritising both the scaling up of HIV-sensitive Social Protection and the VCT@WORK Initiative in Kenya and the strategy has been to build synergies between the two priorities. An innovative approach towards enhancing access to HIV...

VCT@WORK in Ukraine’s Maritime Sector

According to estimates, 30 per cent of people living with HIV in Ukraine don’t know their HIV positive status. HIV testing is free and available in AIDS centres, and in many primary medical healthcare centres, as a result of the current health care...

Increased Access to Social Protection and HIV Services through Scaled up Workplace Programmes in Identified Sectors in Nigeria

Through the VCT@Work Initiative the ILO contributes to the National testing targets which amongst others seeks to test 80 million Nigerians by 2020.

Reaching Men under the National Test and Treat campaign in Tanzania

Only 45 per cent of men living with HIV know their HIV status in Tanzania, as against 56 per cent of women living with HIV. The Prime Minister, involving all stakeholders, launched a national HIV Test and Treat campaign on 19 June 2018. Coming...

Moving towards full employment: An interview with Aurelio Parisotto

This year’s Employment Policy Research Symposium, to be held on 12-13 December, will focus on the fundamental question of full employment - its definition and relevance, its implications for inclusive and greener economic growth, the conditions...

China expands its support to South-South Triangular Cooperation in ASEAN countries

World Toilet Day

New report highlights dire working conditions of sanitation workers in some developing countries

Countless sanitation workers in the developing world work in conditions that endanger their lives and health, and violate their dignity and rights.

In coversation with students from XLRI, Jamshedpur

Students from XLRI – Xavier School of Management interviewed Ms Dagmar Walter on current trends and challenges from the world of work. The interview was published in the institute’s annual magazine Dhyuti 2019. Here are the interview transcripts.

Employment creation

Small businesses and self-employed provide most jobs worldwide and in Asia

A new ILO study reveals that almost seven in 10 workers worldwide are self-employed or in small businesses. Self-employed and micro-enterprises account for more than 80 per cent of employment in South Asia. By contrast, medium-sized and large...

Employment creation

Small businesses and self-employed provide most jobs worldwide, new ILO report says

A ground-breaking study reveals that seven in 10 workers are self-employed or in small businesses, a finding that has significant implications for employment and enterprise support policies world-wide.

Informality

Lima’s Gamarra market: The benefits of moving to the formal economy

Combating informality is key to governments’ efforts to reduce inequality and social exclusion. This is particularly true in Peru where many employees work in informal conditions.

Promoting Formal Employment in Arab States (Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq): Transition from Informal to Formal Economy

ILOITC training examines informal employment in the Arab region, in particular in the context of crisis- impacted countries such as Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan and offers a platform to discuss ways to promote formal employment and enterprises, to...

ILO, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung to strengthen partnership in Africa

New Memorandum of Understanding underscores renewed commitment to social justice, with focus on workers’ rights, labour migration, youth employment and the informal economy.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | RWANDA - “The project helped national policies to reduce poverty and create jobs”

An ILO-led programme helped the government and social partners to make sure job creation goes along with economic growth.

ILO and StreetNet investigate the organizational needs of street and market vendors in Moldova

ILO participates in SEWA Workshop on Development of Grassroots Women’s Cooperatives in Ahmedabad

Youth unemployment rates: a challenge for the future of work in Latin America and the Caribbean

There are about 10 million young people who want to enter the labour market and do not gain employment. Those who find a job must face decent work deficits and informality. As part of activities to mark International Youth Day (12 August 2019), ILO...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

StreetNet International: Organizing street vendors towards formalization and economic empowerment

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Informal Economy

Future of trade unions depends on organizing the informal economy

A new report reveals that organizing workers in the informal economy may spark the renewal of the trade union movement. This can be done by expanding membership and collective bargaining coverage in the informal economy in order to protect labour...