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ILO project brings together worker's and employer's organizations from Samoa and New Zealand in mentoring initiative

Worker's and employer's organizations in New Zealand have welcomed the opportunity to engage in an exchange of expertise with counterparts in the Pacific island nation of Samoa.

Tackling child labour through Public-Private-Local Community Partnership

Child labour remains a significant problem in Indonesia. The 2010 National Child Labour Survey showed that 4 million children are working and 1.7 million of them are child labourers, with work that affect negatively their well being, their safety...

ILO hosts OSHE training workshop for OECS labour inspectors

The Workshop is one of the activities of the ILO's Programme on Occupational Safety and Health and Environment (OSHE) in the Caribbean which was initiated in January 2011.

World day against child labour 2011 in Thailand

A seminar on “Creative operational campaign against child labour in hazardous work”

ILO & Singapore Ministry of Manpower sign partnership agreement to improve labour and workplace practices

The ILO and the Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) have signed a two-year Partnership Agreement to improve human resource development and workplace practices in the ASEAN region.

Tripartite Labour Advisory Council launched in Vanuatu

For the first time since independence in 1980, government, workers and employers have formally joined forces to create a tripartite advisory body to help guide Vanuatu’s development of new labour and employment policies.

Papua New Guinea labour delegation in Australia: tripartite group studies industrial relations, Australian labour market governance and...

ILO News: A tripartite delegation from Papua New Guinea (PNG) has travelled to Australia to study that country’s industrial relations institutions in advance of an anticipated enactment of a Bill to reform PNG’s industrial relations laws.

Technical Cooperation and Development: Interview with Enrico Cairola

Forging stronger partnerships for decent work in Asia-Pacific

By Cristina Tiron and Wolfgang Schiefer, Regional Unit for Partnerships, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Assisted in part by the region’s faster recovery from the global economic crisis, Asia and the Pacific is seeing an increase in...

ILO-JICA agreement to improve Pacific Islands waste management

The ILO and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed an agreement to support improved waste management in the Pacific Island Countries (PIC).

Kazakh minister calls for reducing need for foreign workforce

Indonesia to participate in the ILO’s Green Jobs Project in Asia

Climate change is an issue of high priority for Indonesia. Like many other countries in Asia and the Pacific, Indonesia has also voluntarily committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions or carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 2020. Indonesia is...

G20 Summit in Seoul (11-12 November 2010)

Amid mixed employment data for 2010, ILO urges G20 to intensify focus on jobs

Amid a “fragile labour market” marked by persistent high unemployment, “slack” jobs growth and declining wages, the International Labour Office urged the Group of 20 to intensify its focus on “productive employment and job-intensive growth policies”...

Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan to have common labour market soon

St. Vincent and the Grenadines advances in implementation of new labour market information system

A new labour market information system for St. Vincent and the Grenadines will soon be on the horizon for use by policymakers, employers and job seekers

Crisis response

MDGs remain achievable despite setbacks due to the crisis

UN Summit "Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals" despite global crisis hindering growth and employment

ILO launches employer and trade union guides on the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement

The ILO Office for the Caribbean, has published two user-friendly guides on the CARIFORUM-European Community (EC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) for use by Caribbean employers and trade unionists.

Bermuda's Minister of Labour pays courtesy visit to ILO

How Much Does Business Really Bring to HIV Response? Quantifying In-Kind and Financial Contributions of the Private Sector

ILO IPEC receives the Sahametrei Sena Medal for its contribution towards ending child labour in Cambodia

(ILO Cambodia) The Royal Government of Cambodia conferred the Sahametrei Sena Medal on Mr. MP Joseph, Chief Technical Advisor of IPEC’s Time Bound Programme Support Project in recognition of the ILO’s work in the area of child labour in Cambodia.