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Disability

ILO Beijing and Wenzhou Disabled Persons' Federation establish strategic partnership to enhance inclusive employment for people with...

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SPARKing change, making India disability-inclusive

Disability Inclusion Facilitators are ensuring persons with disabilities get equal access to opportunities in an effort to advance social justice and decent work for all.

Inclusivity

Breaking down the barriers makes everybody gain

Globally, there are over one billion people with disabilities. They are now more active in many societies than ever before. Yet employment rates are low and many barriers to work still exist. The ILO Office for Türkiye project shows how and why...

Inclusion

Employers impressed by exceptional skills at Chattogram disability job fair

Hundreds of job seekers with disabilities from Bangladesh's Chittagong and surrounding districts turned up for the job fair, with skills including mechanical, electrical, and genetic engineering, exceeding employers' expectations.

Labour migration and disability inclusion

Migration and disability rights groups unite to tackle barriers in labour migration

ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme organizes groundbreaking gender equality and disability inclusion trainings in five Asian countries, empowering stakeholders to address the challenges faced by persons with disabilities in labour migration.

Disability Inclusive Trade

Disability Inclusive Trade: Leveraging Digital Technologies to Make Trade Work for All

An informal inter-organizational Technical Working Group on Trade and Disability Inclusion has been established in response to the growing demand for international trade policies that address the specific challenges and opportunities faced by...

New ILO working paper exposes significant ‘disability wage gap’

Higher unemployment rates, lower earnings and a tendency towards self-employment characterize the world-of-work experience of many people with disabilities.

Disability Inclusion Facilitators get certified to mainstream disability in rural India

The ILO’s SPARK project is helping promote equality of treatment and opportunities for persons with disabilities in the labour market.

Disability and work

Look at me: ILO training opens doors for young people in Thailand to pursue careers

With his hair dyed orange, Thanakorn Suddai said he wanted to become a barber. As a person with a hearing disability, Suddai learned to cut hair thanks to the ILO-supported hairdressing training, which used visual demonstrations and sign language as...

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Social and solidarity economy critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia-Pacific

Policymakers, workers' and employers' organizations and practitioners across Asia and the Pacific are leveraging the social and solidarity economy toward sustainable development in the region.

ILO project boosts and advocates for inclusive employment opportunities for people with disabilities in Türkiye

Following a worksop on the issue in March, the ILO Office for Türkiye organized the first of a three-city series of trainings and career days for job seekers with disabilities and employers seeking to employ people with disabilities in Ankara.

Disability Inclusion

Forty persons with disabilities receive job offers at groundbreaking national job fair

The Bangladesh Business and Disability Network (BBDN) organized their largest post-COVID National Job Fair for Persons with Disabilities on 19 February resulting in 40 participants receiving jobs offers pending successful background checks.

Persons with disabilities in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions and the workplace: A situational analysis

Since 2021, the ILO and UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa has been implementing a joint project aimed at ‘reasonable accommodation' for persons with disabilities in TVET institutions and workplaces. Among several interventions, a...

Joint commitment to inclusive employment for people with disabilities

The ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia and the Hangzhou Disabled Persons Federation (Hangzhou DPF) solidified their commitment to inclusive employment and decent work for people with disabilities, by signing of a Memorandum of Understanding...

The ILO's global report with 30 good practices for the employment of people with disabilities includes three Spanish companies

On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2023, a new publication of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network has been launched, bringing together experiences and practical examples from 30 leading...

ILO Voices | Disability inclusion

Together we can make disability inclusion happen

Güler Koca is a diversity and inclusion expert. She speaks five languages, runs marathons and has learnt to fly a plane. Koca also has a visual impairment. She shares the story of her path towards job success.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

A mission of a person with disability to create an inclusive working environment

Eko Ramaditya Adikara, also known as Rama, never ceases to create and promote a more inclusive working environment. As an ILO consultant, he encourages business associations to collaborate with the Indonesian Business and Disability Network (IBDN).

Labour Market Data

Latest Bangladesh Labour Force Survey incorporates first-ever disability data

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has published the Labour Force Survey 2022, incorporating for the first time ever, indicators for measuring disability inclusivity, a major step towards ensuring no one is left behind.

Disability inclusion

New handbook published on getting people with disabilities into the workplace

Expertise and practical examples from 30 leading multinational companies have been included in a new ILO publication that aims to help enterprises achieve business success and tap into an under-utilized talent pool by creating more welcoming...

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Social protection for people with disabilities: Cash benefits are not enough

Social protection policies in many countries perpetuate the misconception that disability is associated with “incapacity to work”. Why is it important to change them?