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COVID-19: Social protection coverage

Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future crises, ILO says

Strengthened and comprehensive social protection systems will lessen the impact of crises such as COVID-19.

COVID-19 pandemic

ILO: COVID-19 eliminates the equivalent of 1.5 million jobs in the Caribbean

The region records significant losses in working hours, marked by a severe deterioration in the second quarter of 2020 from the first quarter of the same year

Media advisory

ILO examines how lack of social protection threatens COVID-19 recovery in developing countries

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Contagion or starvation, the dilemma facing informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lockdown measures will worsen poverty and vulnerabilities among the world’s two billion informal economy workers, says the International Labour Organization.

Media advisory

ILO evaluates impact of COVID-19 crisis on informal economy workers

Trade Union Movement

COVID-19 and Workers’Organizations: Interview with Sharan Burrow

What should be the key policy measures to relaunch the Global economy affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic? Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shares her views on the needs and expectations from the...

Op-Ed

New normal? Better normal!

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare in the cruellest way, the extraordinary precariousness and injustices of our world of work, says ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder.

ILO and Fafo launch rapid impact assessment of COVID-19 on workers in Jordan

The assessment highlights the vulnerabilities of informally employed workers, including Syrian refugees, during lockdown.

COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment

ILO: As job losses escalate, nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods

The latest ILO data on the labour market impact of the COVID-19 pandemic reveals the devastating effect on workers in the informal economy and on hundreds of millions of enterprises worldwide.

Social Protection Responses to COVID crisis: webinar in Kyrgyzstan

ILO DWT/CO has launched a series of webinars for technical experts of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MLSD) and the Social Fund of the Kyrgyz Republic based on their request for technical assistance to mitigate the impact of COVID19...

Ghana Study Tour: An opportunity to learn and share knowledge on the gold supply chain

My name is Silvia Possenti and I work as Supply Chain and Enterprises Officer for the Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply Chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa), an International Labour Organization (ILO) project at the...

Fight child labour amid Covid19 in Uganda

Child labour in Uganda manifests in different communities sometimes hidden underneath the pretext of preparing children for a productive adulthood. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), child labour is defined as work that...

COVID-19: Relying on social dialogue for solutions

The COVID-19 crisis: A wake-up call to strengthen social protection systems

Countries with effective health and social protection systems are better prepared to respond to the pandemic.

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

ILO welcomes joint action to tackle COVID-19 threats to global garment industry

Employers, workers, retailers and major brands will form an international working group – convened by the International Labour Organization – to address the already serious damage to the garment industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Opinion

Towards a Coordinated Humanitarian-Development Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Reflections from the Arab Region with an ILO Lens

The multilateral system should support Arab countries to build on humanitarian and development mechanisms and experiences developed in recent years, in order to rapidly and effectively respond to the COVID-19 health, social, and economic crisis in...

COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment

COVID-19: How social and economic sectors are responding

The COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating effect on all social and economic sectors. In a series of briefs, the ILO analyses how the pandemic is affecting the functioning of these sectors and how they are responding to alleviate its effects.

COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment

COVID-19 responses must be built on human solidarity, ILO tells World Bank/IMF

In submissions to the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank the ILO Director-General has laid out a four-pillar plan of policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis, that are human-centred and built on global solidarity.

Virtual Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

COVID-19: Immediate relief needed to protect workers and enterprises, says ILO Director-General

Priority attention should be given to small enterprises, unprotected workers and those in the informal economy, says the Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, in a statement to the Spring Meeting of the IMF/World Bank...

Virtual Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

We need a human-centred response to COVID-19 through global solidarity

In a statement to the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the IMF and World Bank, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, outlined the steps that need to be taken to lessen the impact of the crisis on...

Press release

In times of crisis, solidarity between workers and employers is paramount, says the ILO

Past crises show that workers and employers need to work together to address the impact of COVID-19, says a new joint report from the International Labour Organization’s workers’ and employers’ groups.