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Meaningful youth engagement

Mentoring host and refugee youth in Ethiopia to become future leaders

The ILO, UNHCR and UNICEF facilitated a Youth Leadership Academy for members of the Youth Network Committee in Ethiopia to assist them in organizing and leading social development and advocacy initiatives in their communities.

ILO and Indonesia’s Diponegoro University raise awareness of forced labour in the fishing sector

The ILO's 8.7 Accelerator Lab in Indonesia collaborates with the Faculty of Economics and Business, Dipenogoro University (FEB Undip) to promote the inclusion of labour rights in business school education.

More disability-responsive employment services in Jordan

The ILO has held a training workshop on the provision of disability-responsive employment services in Jordan

Skills development

Signing ceremony on technical assessment report for skills certification in skills bricklaying and plastering between Thailand and Cambodia

Through the support from ILO/Korea Partnership programme, the signing ceremony marked a significant step for the free flow of migrant workers from Cambodia to Thailand within the construction sector.

Our impact, their voices

“Having my own business makes me feel like a queen”

Training on entrepreneurship and access to seed funding has helped Al Batool, a Sudanese refugee in Egypt, to start her own business and gain some financial independence.

Skills Development

With upgraded infrastructure and capacity, vocational training centres in Kenya are creating better job prospects for youth

With the support of ILO PROSPECTS, vocational training centres are being equipped with the latest machinery and infrastructure facilities, while staff are being trained to deliver industry-relevant competency-based curricula. These investments will...

Gender-based collective bargaining agreements better protect rights of woman workers

The ILO’s Ship to Shore Rights South-East Asia Programme promotes a gender-based collective bargaining negotiation and agreement to better protect the rights of woman workers in the seafood processing industry.

National Workshop in Egypt

ILO facilitates discussions on promotion of decent work for refugees in Egypt

At a national level workshop, main findings of the ILO's recent baseline study on the access of refugees and asylum seekers to the labour market were discussed with key influencers.

Inclusive Green Economic Growth for Jordan's Refugee and Host Communities

A new ILO project funded by the Government of Italy aims to build a sustainable and inclusive green labor market for Jordan's refugee and host communities.

Employment-Intensive Employment Programme

ILO promotes labour intensive methods to improve livelihoods of host and refugee communities in Ethiopia

Through an intensive training, the ILO has strengthened the capacity of road construction engineers from Ethiopia’s refugee-hosting districts to apply labour intensive methods to boost socio-economic development through infrastructural development...

International Labour Standards

Nigeria ratified ILO Conventions concerning migrant workers and private employment agencies

Nigeria becomes the 29th country to ratify Convention No. 143, and the 38th to ratify Convention No. 181.

Employment Intensive Investment Infrastructure Programme in Jordan

BMZ supports Green Jobs and Women's Participation in Jordan

The EIIP project funded by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the German Development Bank (KfW) was launched in Jordan in 2016 in response to the Syrian crisis and to provide support to the Jordanian...

Government and ILO discuss skill acquisition and gainful employment for Indian workers in Japan

In the international labour market, Japan offers unique opportunities for employing Indian workers

Labour migration

The ILO supports socio-economic integration of refugees and migrants from Venezuela with a decent work approach

The Venezuelan displacement is the largest human displacement in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean and the second largest in the world. At a roundtable in Brussels, the ILO presented the main advances and challenges faced by host...

4th UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights

The ILO co-organised the 4th UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights (Kathmandu, Nepal, 20-22 March 2023).

Labour migration

International Women’s Day 2023: Migration as an opportunity for women

ILO, IOM, UNODC and UN Women join forces to generate knowledge on the challenges women migrant workers face during their migration journey

WSIS Forum - An expanding digital economy offers opportunities for forcibly displaced youth, but challenges remain

A panel discussion organised by the ILO in the framework of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2023 shed light on, and convened different voices around, the multiple ways in which a digital transformation is changing how forcibly...

Training workshop

Developing, negotiating and implementing Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements (BLMAs)

Fair and ethical recruitment

ILO launches regional operational guidelines on fair and ethical recruitment for ASEAN regulators

New guidelines provide practical information to help regulators protect migrant workers in the region from abusive recruitment practices.

ILO delivers keynote address on labour market inclusion to round table in Curacao

The round table allowed stakeholders to discuss issues pertinent to crisis migration, aliens and population policy and the right 'match' of 'skills' and work. Guest speakers included Mr. Fabio Siani from the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR/ACNUR, renowned...