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Barbados strengthens capacity for social protection reform through UN Joint SDG Fund / ILO training

Policymakers enhance understanding and skills during the intensive specialized course

How digital payment systems can boost Bangladesh's push to meet the SDGs

An op-ed by Tuomo Poutiainen, Country Director of ILO Bangladesh and Dan Rees, Director of Better Work published on the World Economic Forum website

UNTFSSE participated in Catalysing Change Week 2021

In a session titled “How can social entrepreneurs help the UN to achieve the SDGs?” the Chair of the UNTFSSE and Director of ILO Enterprises Department shared his views on the contribution of social enterprises to the Sustainable Development Agenda.

The role of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation in achieving the SDGs - Human stories from 
the Arab States

Uganda holds its Alliance 8.7 National Strategic Planning Workshop

The Alliance 8.7 Supply Chains Action Group held its second Strategic Workshop from 14 to 15 May 2019 in Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire.

The second strategic workshop of the Alliance 8.7 Supply Chains Action Group was organized in Abidjan on 14 and 15 May 2019 under the patronage of the First Lady of Côte d'Ivoire with funding from the governments of the Netherlands (through the...

Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

Restore progress towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goals

Measures to reduce poverty and widen access to social protection are among a list of COVID-19 recovery priorities outlined by ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, at the virtual annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. His...

High-Level Political Forum

Achieving SDG Target 8.7 and Universal Social Protection in times of COVID-19

High-Level Political Forum virtual side event, showcasing Pathfinder Countries’ action, with a focus on social protection, towards achieving SDG Target 8.7 on eradicating forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking, and ending child labour...

Multilateralism and COVID-19

Multilateralism, SDGs and COVID-19: What role for workers'organisations?

Why Multilaterialism and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are even more relevant as overarching responses to the COVID-19 pandemic? Maria Helena ANDRE, Director of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers ‘Activities shares her thoughts on the...

We will be able to document MDG indicator 8.7 on child and forced labour in Mali.

Amadou Kone participated in the training on the analysis of data on child and forced labour in Abidjan, where he had the opportunity to share his experience in the design and processing of nationwide surveys including: the design of collection...

Skills conference participants stress the relevance of TVET for skills readiness to achieve SDGs &adopt IR 4.0

Workers and Sustainable Development

Message at the Trade Unions and Sustainable Development Goals: A South-South Learning Exchange and Training Workshop

Delivered on behalf of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Philippines by Khalid Hassan, Director of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines, 2 December 2019, Makati City, Philippines

ILO Accel Africa project supports the drafting of the Nigeria Alliance 8.7 communication strategy in Lagos

The workshop gathered approximately 40 participants who are Members of the Alliance 8.7 Technical Committee and are members of one of the three identified Priority areas.

Japan: Responsible labour practices as part of core business operations in supply chains in Asia contribute to the achievement of...

The ILO and APIR (Asia Pacific Institute of Research) co-host a symposium for Japanese businesses in the Kansai region hear research findings from Japanese and Chinese electronics sectors and share ideas on how the SDG goals can be achieved through...

No social justice without achieving Target 8.7

Ms. Walter Dagmar, Director, DWT South Asia and India, addresses the gathering on behalf of ILO’s Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Ms. Tomoko Nishimoto at the inaugural session of the Asia Regional Conference on Alliance 8.7

G20 Declaration: Advancing Tourism's Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Ministers of Tourism of G20 member countries and invited countries, met under Japan’s G20 Presidency, alongside the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Tourism...

Child labour

ILO encourages Malaysia to consider pathfinder role for an Alliance 8.7

Marking Malaysia’s World Day against Child Labour, ILO encourages Malaysia to lead at the regional and global levels as a pathfinder country in fight against child labour.

From IFLA News

Making a Reality of Access to Legal Research to Deliver the SDGs: Interview with Latia Ward

Read an interview by IFLA News how GOALI - Global Online Access to Legal Information - can help legal professionals in developing countries to solve access to justice issues.

Social Dialogue: Key to Achieving the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals

Promoting participatory social dialogue is a fundamental means to address the challenges and seize the opportunities that are emerging from changes in the wold of work and technological advances, writes the ILO’s Shaza Jondi.

Joint call by the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on Governments to...

ITUC and the IOE appeal to governments to increase efforts on SDGs, and particularly on SDG 8