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Angela Friska: I am no longer ashamed of my disability

Angela Friska is a disabled person working as a consultant whose specific assignment is to manage the program for disabled people in ILO-Better Work Indonesia. She has grown up with a hearing impairment, but her condition has not caused her to...

International Day of the Girl Child

Message by Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, on the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child 2012

International Day of the Girl Child

ILO says discrimination against young girls must end

The world must make sure that girl children find their rightful places at home, school and, as they grow up, at work - on equal terms with boys.

From Pakistan

All aboard the women’s rights bus

For working women in Pakistan, the bus ride to work can be particularly uncomfortable. The country’s National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) has been trying to change that, with a bit of help from the ILO.

European labour migration

From public sector worker in Portugal to cleaner in Switzerland

As protests spread in southern Europe – especially in Greece, Spain and Portugal – against austerity measures, more and more people hit by the crisis are moving to northern countries in search of decent jobs. Public sector workers are not an...

WOMEN - Only 2 per cent trade union members in the formal and invisible in the informal economy

Women constitute only 2 per cent membership of the trade unions in Pakistan, this figure does not even include informal economy of which more than 70% are women. This alarming figure was shared in a training workshop, “Training of trainers in...

ILO, UNICEF and WHO hail significant increase in breastfeeding rates

On the commemoration of Global Breastfeeding Week, the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) congratulated the Government of the Philippines for the significant increase in exclusive breastfeeding...

Women in EU public sector face higher risk of losing jobs

The public sector in the EU offers many highly qualified jobs and is a major source of employment for women. But increasingly, those positions are being lost to austerity policies.

Promoting Gender Equality: ILO Training on Gender Sensitive Value Chain Analysis in Pakistan

The ILO project Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment (GE4DE) organised a 5-day training on Gender Sensitive Value Chain Analysis.

Thirteenth National Convention on Women’s Studies

The National Convention on Women’s Studies organized by the Centre for Women’s Research (CENWOR) was held from the 27th – 30th July 2012. The inauguration was at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI). This is the thirteenth in the series, which...

Turning waste fruit into a profitable business

Cooperatives have played an important role in Indonesia by helping to boost growth, reduce poverty and promote social cohesion. As the world celebrates the UN International Day of Cooperatives, Gita Lingga reports on a successful project involving...

Innovative approaches to workforce training: ILO prepares a group of trainers in Pakistan

Islamabad: The ILO, together with the Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA) is initiating for the first Competency Based Training and Assessment in Sindh.

New Faces New Voices, ILO and AfDB to Join Forces to Promote Women Empowerment in Africa

New Faces New Voices (NFNV), the Pan-African Network of women in the financial and business sectors led by Ms Graça Machel, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) agreed in Abuja (Nigeria) to strengthen...

ILO CINTERFOR Director highlights impact evaluation of TVET

Round Table aimed at providing an overview of the mission and work of CINTERFOR, as well as of its role in promoting south-south cooperation among the national training agencies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Governing Body: the Director-General meets the Workers' Group

ILO Director-General Juan Somavia met the Workers’ Group of the Governing Body. During the meeting, he emphasized that this would be the last Governing Body session that he would attend in the capacity of Director-General.

ILO & UN Women sign Letter of Intent for joint collaboration in Pakistan

Islamabad: ILO and UN Women have signed Letter of Intent to develop a common approach for better coordination and cooperation to work effectively on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment initiatives.

Barbados Labour Minister participates in ILO panel discussion on the occasion of International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day: The IUF Calls for Strengthening Decent Work in Agriculture to Protect Women’s Rights

The coordinator for global agriculture at the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), Ms Sue Longley, stressed the need to strengthen decent work in agriculture to...

Contribution to the ILO International Women’s Day Panel: Empower Rural Women - End Hunger and Poverty by Ms. Sue Longley, Coordinator...

International Women’s Day: ILO – APINDO to launch the Employers’ Guideline on Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

Prevention of harassment in the workplace is both an international and national concern. It is internationally agreed that sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination and is recognized as a violation of human rights. Sexual harassment at...