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“Employment of migrant workers in the informal economy in Kazakhstan”

The study Employment of migrant workers in the informal economy in Kazakhstan: a study of Southern Kazakhstan has been recently published within the framework of the ILO-EU project “Towards Sustainable Partnerships for the Effective Governance of...

Media for Labour Rights 2010 reporting award. "Filipino domestic workers : the struggle for justice and survival"

The Third Annual Media for Labour Rights feature-writing prize has been awarded to Nina Corpuz, a journalist from the Philippines, for an article on domestic workers and the threats of trafficking and abuse that they face. The award is given by the...

Child Labour

Fixing the future of Mali's child workers

In Mali, approximately two out of three children aged 5 to 17 work. This represents over 3 million children. Few of them go to school and 40 per cent of children aged 5 to 14 perform hazardous tasks. The situation of migrant girls is of particular...

Spotlight Interview with Luc Demaret (ILO-Actrav) Domestic work: « Putting an end to exclusion and exploitation »

China’s vocational schools play a key role in reaching prospective young migrant workers

A study on Migrant Remittances to Tajikistan released

A new paper has been published within the framework of the ILO-EU project “Towards Sustainable Partnerships for the Effective Governance of Labour Migration”: the study “Migrant Remittances to Tajikistan. The Potential for Savings, Economic...

Labour migration

In search of jobs: ILO study on labour migration in North and West Africa

The global financial and economic crisis has brought with it significant employment and social challenges, particularly for migrant workers from developing countries. As this ILO study on North and West Africa shows, the latter tend to be...

TVET Reform & Skills Development- The Road to the Future

A two-day National Conference on skill development was held on 20 - 21 April 2010. The Honorable Minister of Industries Mr. Dilip Barua was the Chief Guest on 21st of April and Mr. Md. Nurul Haque, Secretary in charge, Ministry of Labour and...

Regional Workshop on improving institutional capacity for governance of labour migration in North & West Africa

Forced labour in Europe: cases, concepts and action, by Undine Groeger, Copenhagen, April 2010

Presentation to the conference on “Human Trafficking”, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 April 2010

ILO study focuses new attention on adopting a “rights-based approach” to meet the needs of the world’s 105 million migrant workers

Amid growing challenges due to the global economic crisis, a new ILO study highlights the need to adopt a “rights-based approach” to provide a “fair deal” for the world’s 105 million migrant workers.

International Migration

ILO study focuses new attention on adopting a “rights-based approach” to meet the needs of the world’s 105 million migrant workers

Amid growing challenges due to the global economic crisis, a new ILO study highlights the need to adopt a “rights-based approach” to provide a “fair deal” for the world’s 105 million migrant workers.

ILO launches the second phase of collaborative project to prevent labour and sexual trafficking in China

(ILO Beijing) ILO and the All-China Women Federation (ACWF) have been working in close partnership over the last four years to reduce the trafficking of women and children for labour exploitation. With the support of the Canadian International...

Speech at the Launch of the Project to Prevent Trafficking for Labour Exploitation (CP-TING II)

By Ms Ann Herbert, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

From a migrant worker to a cooperative leader

By Muhamad Nour, Labour Migration Project Coordinator in East Java, and Gita F. Lingga, Communications Officer of ILO-Jakarta. (East Java, Indonesia): in The global challenges of the crisis, however, can still turn into opportunities. And, here is a...

Securing a business idea, stopping working overseas

Siti Mutia’s family was very poor with no permanent job or regular income. It forced her husband, Joko Susanto (39) to seek work overseas as a plantation worker in Malaysia. The family had to sell their cattle to fund the cost of Joko’s departure...

Opening message at the ILO-Korea Study Tour on Migration to the Philippines

By Ms Linda Wirth, Director, ILO-Manila, Philippines

Thailand should overhaul its system of managing migrant labour; Opportunity exists to eventually act as a model for ASEAN

This seminar on labour migration policy in Thailand, jointly organized by the ILO, the Ministry of Labour and the Migrant Working Group, will be held in Bangkok on Tuesday 23 February 2010.

On February 18, Dushanbe hosted a roundtable meeting entitled Child Labour as a Consequence of Migration in Tajikistan

Job Losses in Asia and Pacific slow - ILO predicts regional average around 5% for 2010

The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to 2007, on the eve of the global crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends...