All news: workers with disabilities

ILO GBDN-China celebrates progress in 2019

Over the year 2019, the member companies of the Global Business and Disability Network - China Chapter (GBDN-China) have increased the number of employees with disabilities in their workforce.

International Day of Disabled People

Displacement and disability no barrier to work for Syrian refugee

Shaikha, a Syrian refugee who is hearing impaired, has overcome obstacles to find decent employment in a Jordan factory, with ILO support.

ILO Global Business and Disability Network

Persons with disabilities need new roadmap to join future world of work

Those with disabilities will face additional challenges in reaping the benefits of changes affecting the world of work, according to a new report. The publication also outlines a roadmap to help create a more equitable future of work.

NCPD, in collaboration with ILO, to host Training Workshop entitled Employment of Persons with Disabilities: Reasonable Accommodation

The Workshop will analyze the current situation of people with disabilities in the context of decent work related policy issues from national, regional and international perspectives. It will identify actions that will lead to significant...

How technology can provide greater opportunities for people with disabilities

New technology can be an opportunity or a challenge for people with disabilities. An interactive discussion conducted by the ILO and its social partners explored possibilities offered by the technology in providing an equal employment opportunity.

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Paving the way to inclusive rural development in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste needs to promote sustainable, inclusive employment and growth in its rural areas, where 70 per cent of the population live, if it is to achieve its development targets. To help, an ILO infrastructure project is finding work for women and...

Job & Innovation Fair for Diversability 2019

Opening doors to employment for people with disabilities

The ILO in collaboration with relevant partners, Diffago, Dare Foundation and Atma Jaya Catholic University, conducted a two-day inclusive job fair. The job fair connects companies with job seekers with disabilities as a means to promote inclusive...

Inclusion of People with Disabilities

Peruvian companies make progress in the inclusion of people with disabilities

With technical assistance from ILO’s Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP), the Peruvian Business and Disability Network welcomes new members and continues to gather evidence to promote the employment of people with disabilities

Disability and Trade Unions

Strong commitment of Unions can protect people with disabilities

Strong commitment of Unions and their ability to build external partnership are needed to reduce decent work deficits for people with disabilities.

International Labour Standards

Viet Nam to ratify ILO Convention on employment for workers with disabilities

The country continues to align its legal framework with international labour standards to protect vulnerable workers' groups.

Disability and Trade Unions

The inclusion of workers with disabilities is crucial to achieving SDGs

People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority but many face discrimination in the workplace and their rights are often denied.

Call to Myanmar Business on Disability Inclusion

On 6/7 March, AAR Japan, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) brought together 110 Myanmar stakeholders from business, disability organisations and government and international experts for...

Business Disability Network

The Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) is instrumental to the creation of the India Business Disability Network (IBDN)

The India Business Disability Network (IBDN), the India chapter of ILO’s Global Business Disability Network (GBDN) was set with the support of ACTEMP and the ILO Office for South Asia in New Delhi.

China Chapter of the Global Business and Disability Network launched a new service to match employers and jobseekers with disabilities

Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality – China Disability Policy Dialogue held in Beijing

International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Shaping an Inclusive World of Work in Sri Lanka

The Employers’ Disability Network, pioneered by the International Labour Organization and Employers Federation of Ceylon, has been lauded as a case study for mainstreaming disability into the world of work

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Colombia: Breaking down barriers to opportunity

The ILO and Colombia's Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies are working together to strengthen the information technology (IT) skills of more than 8,000 Colombian students. One visually impaired young man explains how the...

Global Business and Disability Network

Disability inclusion benefits business

Discussions about diversity, business and human rights need to include persons with disabilities, says ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, at the opening of the annual meeting of the ILO’s Global Business and Disability Network, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The China-Chapter of the Global Business and Disability Network elects its first chairs

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I escaped child labour and can now help others

On the eve of International Week of the Deaf we profile a deaf Zambian man who, with ILO help, escaped child labour and discrimination and built a successful career as a teacher in the US.