All news: indigenous and tribal peoples
Our impact, their voices
How second chances ignite learning, improve skills for indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples like Perlisa often have limited school access, which dampened her spirits to boost her family’s income until she took the chance to complete basic education and acquire new skills in food processing.
Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes for women & girls: A Plea for Action
To mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence observance, the Government of Canada funded ILO’s ProGRESS project supported the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) to conduct a rapid survey on gender-based violence (GBV) in TVET...
ILO offers a clinic on the cooperative model for women entrepreneurs from indigenous and local communities at WIPO training
ILO contributed to the 2023-2024 edition of the WIPO training, mentoring and matchmaking programme on intellectual property for women entrepreneurs from indigenous peoples and local communities.
ILO offers a clinic on the cooperative model for women entrepreneurs from indigenous and local communities at WIPO training
ILO contributed to the 2023-2024 edition of the WIPO training, mentoring and matchmaking programme on intellectual property for women entrepreneurs from indigenous peoples and local communities.
Skills development & lifelong learning
Indigenous abaca farmers harvest new prosperity
ILO-UK programme helps farmers maximize the value of their produce, making the abaca trade fairer to all players.
Indigenous children at high risk of being in child labour
Child labour and education exclusion among indigenous children is a direct result of the marginalization of indigenous communities says a new analysis.
Guatemala
Respecting values and customs: ILO and CIERTO launch protocol on the recruitment of indigenous peoples for work abroad
The document has been developed based on the experiences of indigenous peoples in Mexico and Guatemala, and serves private employment agencies recruiting for companies abroad.
Forthcoming reports: Vulnerability paper series
Identifying particularly vulnerable groups of children and their specific needs is essential for the elimination of child labour. Article 7 of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 – the...
ILO Voices | Social and solidarity economy
We lost our precious forest but found a way to survive
Mining and deforestation have destroyed the Orang Asli indigenous peoples’ way of life in Peninsular Malaysia. Maimun is helping to restore her people’s connection to the land through a community organic vegetable farm that is giving them a...
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Item 5(g): Thematic dialogues: b) CEDAW General Recommendation No.39 on Indigenous Women and Girls
Statement by: Valentina Beghini, Legal Specialist, Violence, Harassment, and Non-discrimination
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Item 3 Special theme of session: “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based...
Statement by: Valentina Beghini, Legal Specialist, Violence, Harassment, and Non-discrimination
ILO Voices | Indigenous rights
Indigenous people in cities have rights too
Olinda Silvano is an artist and leader in a Shipibo-Konibo indigenous community in Peru’s capital city, Lima. She is determined to overcome the challenges she and her people face, including discrimination, lack of social protection and housing.
ILO-Canada and the Government of Bangladesh start ProGRESS project to build the foundation for an inclusive skills system
Latin America
Low levels of social protection and statistical invisibility increases the vulnerability of 55 million indigenous people
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected more than 800 groups of indigenous peoples, who are overly affected by poverty and informality, have few opportunities for decent work, and face obstacles in accessing education or participating...
5th ITUC World Congress
ILO Director-General calls for policies that support equity and social justice
Addressing the 5th World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation in Melbourne, Gilbert F. Houngbo called for a Global Coalition for Social Justice to prioritize social justice in policy making and tackle multiple crises that are...
ILO Voices | Tourism
An indigenous entrepreneur in tune with Mother Earth
After successfully reclaiming her people’s territory in Quebrada de Humahuaca, Northern Argentina, Celestina Ábalos turned to tourism to share and promote her indigenous culture. ILO entrepreneurship training during the COVID-19 pandemic helped her...
ILO calls for papers to help stop racial discrimination at work
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is asking equality experts, practitioners, academic institutions, research institutions and activists from around the world to share their insights and recommendations on how to eliminate racial...
At a WIPO programme, the ILO shares how the cooperative model can be used by indigenous women entrepreneurs
ILO contributed to the second edition of the WIPO Program for Indigenous and Local Community Women Entrepreneurs that took place in October 2021.
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
Germany ratifies ILO Convention, 1989 (No. 169) as a strong expression of solidarity for the protection of indigenous and tribal peoples’...
Message at the handover of the water system built in Rifao under the ILO-Japan Water and Sanitation Project
By Mr Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the handover of the water system built in Rifao under the ILO-Japan Water and Sanitation Project, 22 June 2021, Maguindanao, Philippines