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Disability and work

Employing people with disabilities: It’s right and smart

Employing people with disabilities – a huge and largely overlooked market segment – makes a lot of sense for companies. But that requires overcoming a fear of the unknown and looking at abilities rather than disabilities.

Employing people with disabilities: It’s right and smart

Employing people with disabilities – a huge and largely overlooked market segment – makes a lot of sense for companies. But that requires overcoming a fear of the unknown and looking at abilities rather than disabilities.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Including people with disabilities, everyone stands to gain

“Too many people with disabilities are denied the dignity of work (...) We need to break barriers and open doors for an inclusive society for all,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder in a statement on the occasion of International Day of Persons...

Seminar aims to enhance the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace

The ILO gathers employers to share experiences on how to make workplaces more inclusive for people with disabilities in the Arab States region.

Non-discrimination

Training future lawyers to ensure justice for people with disabilities

Good lawyers with knowledge, right attitudes and perspectives about persons with disabilities can help break barriers and open doors for them to the workplaces and the whole society .

Non-discrimination

New initiative to help people with disabilities claim their rights

A joint ILO, UNDP and UNICEF programme in Viet Nam will help include people with disabilities in all decision-making steps through strengthening the capacities and role of organizations of people with disabilities.

New development agenda must be disability-inclusive – UN high-level meeting

The rights of persons with disabilities must be directly addressed by the post-2015 development agenda, United Nations officials today urged a High-level meeting of the General Assembly, where world leaders pledged to work together on national and...

High-level Meeting on Disability and Development

Exclusion carries high costs for individuals and economies alike

Exclusion of people with disabilities from the world of work wastes significant potential at the individual, community and societal levels.

China

Forum highlights the benefits of hiring people with disabilities

The ILO and representatives of more than 20 companies meet in Shanghai and showcase the advantages of hiring qualified persons with disabilities.

From Chile

Hiring people with disabilities is not charity; it’s good for business

The ILO and Chilean employers are working together to raise awareness of the positive impact that people with disabilities (*) can have on enterprises.

Disabilities and development

Persons with disabilities seek security, skills and acceptance

Signatories of the UN's disabilities convention are discussing how to improve the lives of more than 1 billion people living with disabilities.

From China

Lifting the barrier of intellectual disabilities

There are almost 200 million persons with intellectual disabilities in the world. For many of them, finding a stable job represents a major challenge. In Li’s case, a little help has made a big difference.

Bangladesh

Removing the barriers to inclusion

People with disabilities are overturning negative attitudes and stereotypes, with help from an ILO vocational training project in Bangladesh.

Indonesia

Fighting disability from within

Indonesia’s law states that disabled people must make up at least one per cent of a company’s workforce. As some garment factories employ over 100,000 people, the challenge is not an easy one. But now the law has found a new ally.

Enhance job opportunities for people with disabilities for everyone's benefits

Viet Nam has lost 3 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product as the result of the involuntary exclusion of persons with disabilities from the labour market. On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December), the ILO is...

Angela Friska: I am no longer ashamed of my disability

Angela Friska is a disabled person working as a consultant whose specific assignment is to manage the program for disabled people in ILO-Better Work Indonesia. She has grown up with a hearing impairment, but her condition has not caused her to...

Sri Lanka: New hope for war victims

Decades of civil war have left deep scars in Sri Lanka. An ILO training project brings new hope to some of those whose lives and hopes were shattered by the violence.

Visit of Mr William Hanna, Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh to ILO TVET Project sites

Mr William Hanna, Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh and Mr André Bogui, Country Director of ILO, interacting with the beneficiaries of the ILO TVET Reform Project during their visits to two skills development...

Employers make the case for hiring people with disabilities

101st session of the ILC held event on ILO Business and Disability Network to highlight the business case for hiring people with disabilities

ILO launches first global business and disability website

The ILO has taken a major step toward promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace with the launch of a pioneering new global knowledge sharing platform linking scores of multinational enterprises and organizations...