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ILO and UNESCO

Pathways to better jobs for youth and women given new momentum

The ILO and UNESCO have signed a new agreement consolidating joint work by the agencies on key areas such as technical and vocational training and education.

Multilateral cooperation

ILO and UNESCO reconfirm commitment to joint work in new agreement

Text covers training youth for employment, women's employment and equal rights, child labour, human rights, social protection floors, poverty eradication and South-South and triangular cooperation.

Seminar on "Industry-TVET Institute Relationship" Marked the Successful Completion of “TVET Week 2014”

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) 2014 observed from 18-24 June 2014, throughout the Bangladesh to raise awareness on skills training and expansion of the TVET.

WDACL 2014: ILO-IPEC Shrimp Project in Thailand hosted a group of Thai youth for discussion and study tour on engaging the youth and the...

On the World Day Against Child Labour, 24 Thai children, youth and instructors from several high-schools, academies and universities such as the Zoo Crew dance group and the SuperStar Academy visited the ILO-IPEC Shrimp Project team to discuss child...

WDACL 2014: ILO-IPEC Thailand partners join the global campaign against child labour

All children in Thailand, including those that are migrants, should enjoy their right to education. This is one of the key tenets of the ILO-IPEC’s work in Thailand. The ILO-IPEC partners are joining the ILO’s global campaign against child labour...

Results of Economically Reintegrating Children Associated with Armed Conflict

As the “Prevention of Child Recruitment and Reintegration of Children Associated with Armed Forces and Groups in south central Somalia” project, euphemistically known as CAAFAG, comes to a close, its contributions are profound.

Multi-stakeholder forum on labour conditions in the Thailand’s fisheries sector organized, 23 May 2014

The international brands importing shrimp and seafood products from Thailand as well as their suppliers, Trade Unions and local and international NGO’s, and local industry members joined the “Multi-stakeholder Forum on Labour Conditions in the...

Regional Director's remarks at the 23rd Meeting of ASEAN Labour Minsters

By Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific at the 23rd Meeting of ASEAN Labour Minsters, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, on 22 May 2014

Youth Employment Project: visit to Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region

20-22 May 2014. On 20-22 May 2014 officials of the ILO Moscow Office, Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva, Senior Employers’ Specialist Jelena Kocmur and Chief Technical Advisor Mikhail Pouchkin, visited the city of Kogalym, Khanty-Mansiysk...

ASEAN integration

Skills and lack of awareness of AEC 2015 – a major concern for enterprises, ILO warns

An ILO research in 2013 also shows that labour productivity in Viet Nam was among the lowest levels in the Asia-Pacific region.

Labour migration

Seasonal work brings year-round benefits

A new harvest is ready, and Celestine Aisa Maino, a seasonal worker from Papua New Guinea, has just embarked on her latest overseas journey. Working on a large Australian fruit farm gives her more income, and an ILO project helps her to use it to...

ILO officials visit Kalmykia and Astrakhan as part of ILO-LUKOIL Youth Employment Project

On 22-26 April 2014 officials of the ILO Moscow Office, Olga Koulaeva and Mikhail Pouchkin, visited the Republic of Kalmykia and the city of Astrakhan.

ILO launches comprehensive training programme on resolution of labour disputes

On April 25, the ILO launched a comprehensive eleven-day training programme to develop a roster of professional labour mediators to assist employers and workers to prevent and solve collective labour disputes.

Inspiring students through the ILO’s new KAB Start Up and Go Modules

The ILO in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education and the Provincial Education Office of East Java conducted an entrepreneurship pilot project at vocational schools and high schools for six months (June-December) in 2013. The project...

“Men cannot do what I am doing!”

Ester Karikoga, a young mother of two from the high density suburb Glen View in Harare, was left by her husband and found herself being a struggling single mother with no income:

Ryder: Youth Guarantees, a good example for urgently needed, targeted and immediate action

At the high-level conference “The Youth Guarantee: Making it Happen,” hosted by the European Commission, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization Guy Ryder praised the European Youth Guarantee as a concrete action to connect...

Global Trade and Development Week 2014

21st Century Skills and the Age of Responsibility

Keynote remarks by José M. Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director-General for Policy at the ILO, at the “Global Trade and Development Week 2014”, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Skills development

ILO: Businesses need to invest in education and training

Companies should engage more proactively in education and training to accompany the shift from industrial to information-based knowledge economies.

Apprenticeship

Tackling Jordan’s youth unemployment hands-on

The ILO and its partners use apprenticeship programmes to fight youth unemployment in Jordan.

Philippines

The daily struggle of a Haiyan widow

Jobs are the top priority for many of those whose livelihoods were shattered by Super Typhoon Haiyan. The situation is particularly challenging for women who lost their husbands and became head of household overnight.