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Seminar on Climate Change: Issues, challenges and opportunities confronting the peasants and farmer communities of Sindh Province

The ILO through the One-UN Livelihood Restoration Project has improved the resilience of 662 households by providing them training and tools to diversify their livelihoods. While the climate change induced vulnerabilities of the farmer communities...

Summit of G20 Finance and Labour and Employment Ministers

G20 caught in weak economic and jobs recovery spiral

“A weak economic recovery continues to weigh heavily on G20 labour markets, while the persistent lack of decent jobs is in turn hurting the recovery,” said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder, who’s taking part in the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers...

Growth continues for Cambodia's garment and footwear sector

The ILO’s new Bulletin on Cambodia’s garment and footwear sector launched on 16 July 2015 in Phnom Penh.

Blog article

Money talks: Why compensation could be the best tool in the fight to combat forced labour

By Anna Olsen, Technical Officer, Tripartite Action to Protect the Rights of Migrant Workers in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS TRIANGLE)

ILO continues farmer empowerment through economic development

Handing Over of the Cooperative Complex to Mulankavil Farmers’ Cooperative Society, Killinochchi District.

Intervention by Bruno Roelants in the name of the International Cooperative Alliance at the Committee on the Transition from the Informal...

The Partnership Agreement Signing Ceremony between the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration of the Republic of...

Today, Indonesia’s Minister of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration signed a Partnership Agreement with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in support of a...

Syrian refugee crisis in neighbouring countries

Launch of ILO interventions in the agricultural sector in North Lebanon

The ILO is launching its interventions in Akkar in North Lebanon to support the local farmers who have been most affected by the Syrian crisis.

World Employment and Social Outlook 2015

ILO warns of widespread insecurity in the global labour market

How is the world of work changing? Are permanent contracts the norm or the exception? Discover the new World Employment and Social Outlook 2015 (WESO).

Palestinian Decent Work Programme

Kuwait contributes US$500,000 to support ILO activities in the occupied Palestinian territory

The State of Kuwait grants the International Labour Organization (ILO) half a million US dollars, bringing the State’s total contributions dedicated to promoting decent work and social justice in the occupied Palestinian territory and the Arab...

Gaza reconstruction / Unemployment

Gaza conflict in 2014 caused hefty Palestinian job losses through destruction of workplaces and productive assets

New ILO study assesses how the Israeli military operation during the latest Gaza conflict caused widespread “disemployment” in the Palestinian territory’s private sector through the destruction of land, structures, capital equipment and tools.

Syrian Refugee Crisis/Employment and Livelihoods

Italian government first to donate to vital ILO project in Lebanon supporting vulnerable communities affected by the Syrian refugee crisis

Funding will benefit the vulnerable in host and refugee communities alike, focusing on unemployed youth, farmers and agricultural workers including children as part of the ILO’s contribution to the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan 2015-16.

Why inequality threatens the Asian miracle

By Tomoko Nishimoto, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific

Local economic development in Sri Lanka

Peace, prosperity and papayas

Her papaya crop is paying off for a widowed farmer helped by the ILO-supported LEED program, which has boosted business in fisheries, construction and agriculture.

Unemployment on the rise over next five years as inequality persists

Unemployment will continue to rise in the coming years, as the global economy has entered a new period combining slower growth, widening inequalities and turbulence, warns a new ILO report.

Minimum wage

ILO calls on global garment buyers to help absorb Cambodia's new minimum wage

The new wage, which came into effect today (January 1), will raise factory owners' labour costs by nearly 20 per cent while their margins are shrinking.

Russia’s Ministry of Labour and Social Protection to prepare bill to ratify ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention

Russia’s Ministry of Labour and Social Protection will prepare a bill to ratify the ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) already next year, Deputy Minister Andrei Pudov told TASS after a meeting of the ministry’s Public...

Global Wage Report 2014/15

Gender pay gap widens for higher-earning women

The new edition of the ILO’s Global Wage Report reveals a substantial gender wage divide across a sample of 38 countries, and calls for equal pay for work of equal value to ensure inclusive growth for all.

Global Wage Report 2014/15

Global wage growth stagnates, lags behind pre-crisis rates

The latest ILO Global Wage Report warns of stalled wages in many countries and points to the labour market as a driver of inequality.

Global wage growth stagnates, lags behind pre-crisis rates

Wage growth around the world slowed in 2013 to 2.0 per cent, compared to 2.2 per cent in 2012, and has yet to catch up to the pre-crisis rates of about 3.0 per cent, according to the ILO’s Global Wage Report 2014-2015