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Enhancing Access to HIV Testing and social protection in Kenya

The ILO is prioritising both the scaling up of HIV-sensitive Social Protection and the VCT@WORK Initiative in Kenya and the strategy has been to build synergies between the two priorities. An innovative approach towards enhancing access to HIV...

VCT@WORK in Ukraine’s Maritime Sector

According to estimates, 30 per cent of people living with HIV in Ukraine don’t know their HIV positive status. HIV testing is free and available in AIDS centres, and in many primary medical healthcare centres, as a result of the current health care...

Increased Access to Social Protection and HIV Services through Scaled up Workplace Programmes in Identified Sectors in Nigeria

Through the VCT@Work Initiative the ILO contributes to the National testing targets which amongst others seeks to test 80 million Nigerians by 2020.

Reaching Men under the National Test and Treat campaign in Tanzania

Only 45 per cent of men living with HIV know their HIV status in Tanzania, as against 56 per cent of women living with HIV. The Prime Minister, involving all stakeholders, launched a national HIV Test and Treat campaign on 19 June 2018. Coming...

VCT@WORK in Mozambique: Multi disease testing helps

In April 2017, the International Labour Organization, with support from the Flanders, started a programme on “Scaling up Voluntary Counselling and Testing VCT@ Work in Mozambique”. The Programme aimed at addressing the underlying causes of low...

ILO100 in Viet Nam

Future of work is the choice of Viet Nam

The 2019 Viet Nam Labour Forum agrees that Viet Nam is on the right track on its way towards an upper middle income country. A new ILO report shows the country is creating more middle-skilled and high-skilled jobs.

State Secretary-Deputy Minister Andrei Pudov: Russia Is Taking Multi-Faceted Interagency and Interregional Efforts to Develop Social...

Andrei Pudov, State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection, made this statement during the Global Social Protection Week in Geneva, Switzerland.

Let them fly, don’t clip their wings !

Ridma Weerawardena is the latest musician from around the world to join the ILO’s Global Music Against Child Labour Initiative. The song is his contribution to the global and Sri Lankan fight to end child labour

Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights 2019

Create the right environment for responsible business

States have a role to play in promoting responsible business, said ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, at the Business and Human Rights Forum 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Social Protection

More than 500 billion dollars a year needed to ensure basic levels of social protection worldwide

A new ILO report highlights critical financing gaps in social protection and provides policy recommendations on how these gaps could be closed.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

End violence and harassment in the world of work

"Violence and harassment constitutes one of the greatest threats to decent work. No more excuses. Let’s work together and make the promise of Convention No. 190 a reality for all," says ILO Director-General.

Natural Disasters

Earthquake victims get gravity-fed water supply in Papua New Guinea

A ILO-Japan funded partnership infrastructure project is helping earthquake-affected communities in the Nipa district to access clean drinking water.

Alliance 8.7

Countries in Asia and the Pacific drive action to end child labour, forced labour and human trafficking

Asia-Pacific countries committed to accelerate action and strengthen collaboration to ensure that all women, men, girls and boys are free from child labour, forced labour and human trafficking.

China expands its support to South-South Triangular Cooperation in ASEAN countries

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ILO’s 14th African Regional Meeting to set agenda for next decade in Africa

“1+6” Roundtable, Beijing

A human-centred approach to global economic governance

Reducing inequality and ensuring sustainable development requires greater cooperation and policy coherence within the multilateral system, Guy Ryder has told leaders at a meeting in Beijing held to discuss the development of the world economy.

China-Belgium-ILO seminar: unlocking the potential of women to achieve sustainable development

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

Standards and practices for a zero-tolerance policy on child labour

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ILO to launch new estimates of universal social protection funding gaps