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Message by Juan Somavia Director-General of the ILO on the occasion of International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March of each year. This year’s event focuses on recognizing the important contribution of rural women across the world to the well-being of their families and communities and in sustaining societies...

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Gender equality in the rural sector: The ever-present challenge

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day – Empower Rural Women, end poverty and hunger – highlights the need to tackle gender inequalities in the rural sector. Women living and working in rural areas are often perceived and treated as...

Action My Business Growth: ILO Training for Women Entrepreneurs in Malawi

Training organised by WEDGE-SA, a project supporting Women's Entrepreneurship Development in Southern Africa.

8 March 2012 : Empower rural women – end hunger and poverty

ILO will use this day to celebrate the contribution rural women are making to rural economies and to their families and the communities they live in.

National Highway Police will ensure decent public transport for working women

Islamabad: The National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) will actively promote a decent environment in public transport particularly for women passengers and will impart sensitization training to drivers, conductors and transport union in this...

ILO – Union Confederations release a new study on workers’ perception on sustainable enterprises in Indonesia

The International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the four trade union confederations (KSPSI Pasar Minggu, KSPSI Kalibata, KSBSI and KSPI) will release a new survey titled “Workers’ Perception on the Factors Supporting Sustainable...

Opening address at presentation of the desk review on "Gender dimensions on School-to-Work Transition"

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the presentation of desk review on the "Gender Dimensions on School-to-Work Transition", Makati, Philippines, 18 January 2012

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How the ILO supports change in the Arab world

The world has been transfixed in admiration at the courage of the women and men who have taken to the streets across the Arab States over the past year. Farah Dakhlallah, ILO Regional Outreach and Advocacy Officer in Beirut, reports from Yemen and...

Gender: Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA)’ Training for Worker Facilitators on the ILO Participatory Gender Audit(PGA)

The Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), together with the Bureau for Gender Equality of ILO and TUCA, held a joint Americas Regional Training for Worker Facilitators on the ILO Participatory Gender Audit(PGA), in San José (Costa Rica), from 12...

Multiple discrimination in the world of work by Prof. Colleen Sheppard, Faculty of Law, McGill University & Director, Centre for Human...

The traditional approach adopted in legislation, and in the institutional arrangements, is to address discrimination based on single specific grounds. This remains highly relevant. Human identity, however, is complex and an individual might be...

Developing skills for real jobs in Pakistan: ILO brings Industry leaders and TEVTAs together on workforce competency

ILO brings Industry leaders and TEVTAs together on workforce competency

Ray of hope – Ramayees’s story

Fishing had been the mainstay of Ramayee and her husband Kandeeban of the tiny coastal hamlet of Oyalikuppam before that fateful day in December 2004 when giant waves of Tsunami washed away their home and virtually everything they owned including...

Media, Government, Employers and Workers pronounce commitment to promote Gender Equality at work

Two of ILO's projects, Towards Gender Parity (TGP) and Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment (GE4DE) hosted a joint event to showcase various activities that contribute to the understanding and application of gender equality at the...

World Teachers Day: The United Nations lauds the commendable contribution of teachers in the socio-economic development of Pakistan

Joint statement by the country representatives of UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, and ILO in Pakistan on the occasion of World Teachers Day, 5th October 2011

The ILO and Manual Scavengers in India: Paving the long way towards the elimination of discrimination based on social origin

For millions of people, contemporary India has become a land of opportunities, and the largest democracy in the world has experienced a remarkable economic growth during the last decade. Yet, as India accelerates its pace towards development, many...

Protecting Indonesian migrant workers against gender based violence and HIV and AIDS vulnerabilities

Indonesian women migrant workers, a majority of whom work as domestic workers, are particularly vulnerable to gender based violence and to HIV and AIDS throughout the entire course of the migratory cycle. Gender based violence stands out as one of...

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MOLDOVA: Regional Trade Union Gender Network Strengthened

Child labour

Meeting in response to the World Day Against Child Labour

The International Labour Organization together with the Administration for Protection and Care of Children under Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs organized a meeting to commemorate the World Day Against Child Labour aiming at raising...

Michelle Bachelet at the ILO Conference: The elimination of gender discrimination is a matter of “smart economics”

A Plenary sitting discussed today the ILO Global Report on Equality at Work 2011. The Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, asked representatives of governments, employers and workers attending the 100th International Labour Conference...

New ILO Global Report on Equality at Work 2011 Global economic crisis opens up new space for discrimination at work, ILO says

MANILA (ILO News) – In a new study, the International Labour Office (ILO) notes that in spite of continuous positive advances in anti-discrimination legislation, the global economic and social crisis has led to a higher risk of discrimination...