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Trade union training on how to conduct negotiations with employers in Karaganda, Kazakhstan

How to keep disagreements from escalating into riots? Experts from the International Labour Organization – Magnus Berge, Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), and Sergeyus Glovackas, ILO Moscow Senior...

World Teachers’ Day

Interview with Fred van Leeuwen, General Secretary of Education International

On the occasion of World Teachers Day*, Fred Van Leewen, the General Secretary of Education International(EI) gives his views about challenges facing by teachers unions to improve education quality. In this interview, he explains also the role of...

ILO to share lessons on alternative green livelihoods in Central Kalimantan

The Island of Kalimantan, particularly Central Kalimantan, is home to unique ecological systems that include tropical peat swamp forest. However, due to land degradation, some local communities in the Ex-Mega-Rive Project (EMRP) area of Central...

Good Labour Practices programme for addressing child labour and forced labour in Thai fisheries industry launched

A Good Labour Practices (GLP) programme, a major labour protection initiative for the seafood industry in Thailand was launched today on 16th of September 2013 at the Rama Gardens Hotel Convention Hall, Bangkok, Thailand. The initiative is...

ILO-IPEC Thailand works together with DOF and DLPW to train fisheries officials on Child Labour and Forced Labour and organizes series of...

The ILO-IPEC Thailand commenced a new leg in its work against child labour and forced labour in the fisheries sector through a series of capacity building and training efforts aimed at training and orienting Provincial DOF staff on child labour and...

Vocational Training Course for Young Migrant Workers launched in Samut Sakhon

With technical and financial support from the ILO/IPEC the Labour Rights Promotion Network (LPN) has begun collaborating with the Provincial Non-Formal Education Office and the Mahachai Automotive Institute of Technology (MIAT) to provide vocational...

New ILO tool steps up fight against child labour

The International Labour Office (ILO) has launched a new tool to guide efforts towards the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

New Zealand supports Secretary of State of Timor-Leste for the Support and Promotion of the Private Sector through the ILO’s Business...

The Ambassador of New Zealand H.E. Tony Fautua and the Secretary of State for the Support and Promotion of the Private Sector H.E. Veneranda Lemos, and Ms. Michiko Miyamoto, Deputy Director of the International labour Organisation (ILO) Country...

Viet Nam’s leading labour journalists trained in Labour Code

More than 30 labour and employment journalists from major media organizations in Viet Nam gathered in the central city of Da Nang on 18 July for a training workshop in the new Labour Code.

Australia and ILO announce new programme of training support to Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment (SEPFOPE) of...

Australian Ambassador to Timor-Leste Miles Armitage, and Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment Policy, Ilidio Ximenes, today (16/7) formally launched a new program of support to the skills and training sector.

Skills and competitiveness

Ryder calls for strengthening skills development to bridge the gap between the worlds of education and work

ILO and WTO stress their shared goal to realize the potential of trade opening for employment and for productive and decent work for more people.

Workplace safety

ILO, EU, Bangladesh government adopt new compact on garment factory safety

The new compact aims to improve health and safety, labour rights and responsible business conduct in Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry.

WTO 4th review of Aid for Trade

ILO Director-General's speech on "skills for employment through trade and economic diversification”

ILO side event “Skills for competitiveness” at the WTO 4th review of Aid for Trade, 9 July 2013.

Myanmar

A new path out of adversity

The ILO’s infrastructure project on the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar, not only re-established access to villages devastated by cyclone Nargis in 2008 but also gave rise to a bustling community life.

Partnership for skills training

ILO-Japan sign ¥30,831,000 skills’ training initiative

A collaboration between the Government of Japan and the International Labour Organization will strengthen a range of courses offered by the International Training Centre in Turin, Italy.

Apprenticeship Systems – what do we know?

Adapted from “Overcoming the work-inexperience gap through quality apprenticeships – the ILO’s contribution” by Michael Axmann and Christine Hofmann, ILO Skills and Employability Department

Keeping SCORE with Better Work Indonesia; how one factory improved its production

Partnering with SCORE, Better Work Indonesia is able to offer companies tried and tested training methods to improve workplace conditions.

International Nurses’ Day: EU and ILO Manila promote decent work agenda for Filipino health professionals

Thousands of Filipino health professionals migrate every year for work raising important questions related to the global shortage and inequitable distribution of health professionals in and between many countries.

Meeting today's and tomorrow's skills needs

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), organized a national conference entitled “Meeting Today’s and...

Police Officers trained to address legal needs of bonded labourers

The Sindh Police in collaboration with the International Labour Organization conducted a 3-day master trainer course on Strengthening Actions and Responses against Bonded Labour.