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World Day Against Child Labour 2009: ILO says crisis increases risk of girls becoming child labourers

The global financial crisis could push an increasing number of children, particularly girls, into child labour, according to a new report issued by the International Labour Office (ILO) for the World Day Against Child Labour on June 12. The report...

World Day against Child Labour 2009

Girls in gold-mining: “I don’t want my children to be like me”

Over 18,000 girls and boys are engaged in mining and quarrying in the Philippines. For many generations, the search for gold in small-scale mining has been a means of survival for poor families. Girls in such work are particularly vulnerable....

World Day against Child Labour 2009

Migrant working girls, victims of the global crisis

More than 100 million girls are involved in child labour worldwide, according to a new ILO report for World Day against Child Labour 2009. The report warns that the global financial crisis could push an increasing number of children, particularly...

World Day Against Child Labour

World Day Against Child Labour – 12 June 2009

The annual World Day Against Child Labour will be marked by events in scores of countries around the world on 12 June amid growing concerns over the impact of the economic crisis on child labour, and in particular girls.

By cooking and cleaning, Cambodia’s Mr Mom sweeps away poverty

The Women's Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) programme, run by the International Labour Organization (ILO), not only teaches women about business and couples about budgeting, saving and making better financial decisions, it...

Rights and Challenges of Women and Children Living with HIV: roundtable in Kazan

May 15, 2009, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan – Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, held a round table meeting on Rights and Challenges of Women and Children Living...

Gender equality at the HEART of decent work

By Mr Guy Thijs, Deputy Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Statement of the participants of the Asia Regional Good Practice Seminar

The statement is an outcome of the Asia Regional Good Practice Seminar held in Kathmandu, Nepal where more than 90 representatives of indigenous peoples, government and national human rights institutions from 13 Asian countries, along with...

First ILO course in women’s entrepreneurship offered in Bangladesh

The first course using an internationally-established entrepreneurship training programme for women has been carried out by experts from the ILO in Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

Global Employment Trends for Women

ILO warns economic crisis could generate up to 22 million more unemployed women in 2009, jeopardize equality gains at work and at home

The economic crisis is expected to increase the number of unemployed women by up to 22 million in 2009, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends for Women report (GET), adding that the global jobs crisis is...

ILO to issue report on women and the global crisis for International Women’s Day

The ILO will mark International Women’s Day 2009 with the launch of a new report assessing the impact of the global financial crisis on women in the world of work.

International Women’s Day

ILO to launch a New report on global employment trends for women: Hold Women's Day event on impact of financial crisis on work and family

The International Labour Office (ILO) will mark International Women’s Day 2009 with the launch on Thursday, 5 March, of a new report assessing the impact of the global financial crisis on women in the world of work.

Economic meltdown – this crisis has a woman’s face

Feature article on the effect of the economic crisis on women by Amelita King Dejardin. Gender expert, ILO

Gender equality at the heart of decent work, Campaign 2008-09

From high fashion ‘alta moda’ to dress-making in Ukraine

At 16 per cent, the region of Chernivtsi in Ukraine has the highest unemployment rate in the country and the lowest number of women employed. This is why the region was chosen for an ILO project, funded by Development Cooperation Ireland, that...

Gender Equality

From Veil to Camera: Empowering women through skills training

In many countries, women face more barriers than men to acquire the necessary skills to use new technologies and to start innovative economic activities. For the 60 per cent of women employed in agriculture in South Asia, access to quality...

Moving from poverty to prosperity – women show the smart way

ILO global gender campaign. The Expansion of Employment Opportunities for Women (EEOW), run by the International Labour Organization (ILO) with funding from the Government of Japan has been operating in Cambodia and Viet Nam since 2002 and...

Remove the obstacles – Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work Campaign 2008-09

Working in a ‘man’s world’: women in the Fiji police force

There are higher proportions of women in public services worldwide, and an increasing number of equal opportunities policies exist globally. Nevertheless the ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (No. 111) adopted in 1958 remains...

Gender

ILO Gender Equality campaign highlights need for rights, jobs and social security for older women and men

Despite increasing international attention to ageing societies and older persons, in many societies, older persons and especially older women, still face age discrimination in the workplace and lack access to rights, jobs and social security, the...

Migration and development

Women migrant workers: seizing opportunities, upholding rights

Nearly half of the world’s migrants are women. Increasingly, migration provides them with opportunities to find better jobs. However, many still accept lower skilled jobs for higher pay and some may even become victims of exploitation and abuse. In...

Lower wages for Bangladeshi women raise concerns about discrimination, ILO study finds

A new International Labour Organization (ILO) study suggests that discrimination may be preventing women in Bangladesh from earning the same wages as men.