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Responsible business practices

Responsible supply chains to help agribusiness meet international expectations and SDGs

Over 200 participants from government, civil society and non-government organisations involved in agribusiness in the Philippines will gather on 25 July to address responsible business practices, including decent work, challenges and opportunities...

UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

Accelerating action to end forced labour, human trafficking, modern slavery and child labour; experiences from Alliance 8.7 pathfinder...

UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

ILO addresses decent work deficits at forum to review SDGs

The International Labour Organization is playing an important part in a meeting reviewing progress on six of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In a report, presented at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the ILO is...

National stakeholders’ workshop on achieving SDGs and ending poverty through Social Protection

A national stakeholders’ workshop was organised by the ILO as part of the project ‘Achieving SDGs and Ending Poverty through Social Protection’, funded by the UN Peace and Development Trust Funds pledged by the Government of China. The project is...

Disability and Trade Unions

The inclusion of workers with disabilities is crucial to achieving SDGs

People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority but many face discrimination in the workplace and their rights are often denied.

ILO’s participation in the International Conference on Localizing the SDGs and Co-Constructing the Means of Implementation

The ILO, as a chair of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), participated in an international conference on the role of SSE in implementing and localizing the SDGs which took place in the Republic of...

Poverty-Environment Nexus – ILO Perspectives at Achieving the SDGs within Europe: No Poverty Eradication without Environmental Action

At an event hosted by European Parliament and the Club of Rome EU-Chapter in Brussels, the ILO Enterprises Department Director, Victor van Vuuren, stressed the importance of strategically linking environmental sustainability and social justice...

Joint forces called upon to achieve SDGs in China

The China Business Summit on Achieving the SDGs discusses how business can best contribute to sustainable development in China.

Sustainable Development Goals

Trade unions in Europe and Central Asia join forces to promote SDGs

Organizations from Europe and Central Asia met on 12 October in Moldova to coordinate their approach to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Sustainable Development Goals High on Trade Union Agenda

In June – August 2018, the Trade Union Federation of Kyrgyzstan (TUFK) with support of the International Labour Organization held workshops across the country on the role and policies of Kyrgyz trade unions in achieving sustainable development goals...

World Youth Skills Day 2018

Youth can leverage innovation and technology and become drivers of a better and sustainable future in support of the Sustainable...

On World Youth Skills Day, partners of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth highlight the role of skills in empowering young people to leverage innovation and technologies and to accelerate progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...

Partnership Exchange

Catalysing partnerships on youth employment for the SDGs

The Partnership Exchange in the margins of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development highlights success factors of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

UN Partnership on Sustainable Fashion and the SDGs

11th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Promoting the right to decent work of persons with disabilities through Sustainable Development Goals

The ILO participated in the 11th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) under the overarching theme "Leaving no one behind through the full implementation of the CRPD".

Alliance 8.7 in action: driving innovation to address child labour in Kyrgyzstan

On March 23-25, 2018 the Central Asian Coalition on Promotion of the Rights of Women and Children and the “League on protection of Children Rights” Public Fund organized here the Central Asian Hackathon “Generation Z: wellbeing of children” in...

Sustainable Development Goals 8 (SDG 8) National Framework Indicators in Seychelles

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Presentation on “the SDGs and the ILO” at the 25th One World Festival in Osaka

17th ILO Regional Seminar for Labour-Based Practitioners

Ministers from 9 countries call for an employment-intensive approach to create jobs and ensure income security to achieve the sustainable...

Ministers from some 8 African and 1 Asian countries at the 17th Regional Seminar for Labour Based Practitioners have called on the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support the formulation of employment-intensive investment strategies that...

Opening Remarks at the National validation workshop of the draft “Accelerating the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through Decent Work:...

By Mr Tim De Meyer, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

The ILO participates in the 4th World Forum on Local Economic Development to discuss roles of SSE in achieving SDGs at local level