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ILO provides technical assistance to the Kyrgyz Government on maternity benefits

Upon request of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, the ILO has launched tripartite consultation process to examine the maternity benefit formula.

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

Guy Ryder attends G20 meeting in Japan

The Director-General of the International Labour Organization heads to a meeting of the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers in Japan, focused on the future of work.

ILO centenary

Japanese Diet Adopted ILO Centenary Resolution

On 26 June 2019, National Diet of Japan in both Houses of Representatives and Councillors, unanimously adopted "Resolution concerning Japan's further contribution to the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the commemoration of the centenary...

Trade and Employment

Opening address at the Harnessing Benefits and Mitigating Risks of Trade on Employment in the Philippines: Institutional Mapping and Gap...

By Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at Harnessing Benefits and Mitigating Risks of Trade on Employment in the Philippines: Institutional Mapping and Gap Analysis Validation Forum, 30 August 2019, Manila, Philippines

Our Future of Work: Green Jobs for Climate Action - A dialogue with youth in Thailand

Ahead of the Youth Climate Summit leading up to UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit 2019, the ILO and the Environmental Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University hosted a dialogue bringing youth to discuss a just transition to a...

Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7)

Guy Ryder: A human-centred approach can create decent jobs for youth in Africa

Speaking at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7), ILO Director-General Guy Ryder outlined how a human-centred agenda can help boost productivity and create decent jobs for youth in Africa.

Getting myself through college is my priority

As Ethiopia embarks on the journey of industrialization, more and more young people are joining the garment and textile industry to make ends meet.

High-Level Consultation on Eliminating Child Labour

ILO Bangladesh Hosts High-Level Consultation on Eliminating Child Labour

Regional workshop explores the gaps in current knowledge base to end Child Labour in Six South East Asia Nations.

ILO100 in Viet Nam

ILO, Viet Nam celebrate their century-long path of fighting for social justice

Their intertwined journeys started at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

SOCIAL PROTECTION SECTOR REVIEW IN NIGERIA

To support the Social Protection Sector Review in Nigeria, stakeholders hold a workshop to carefully outline the strategy and method of data collection as well as redesign the data collection tools to be more country specific.

Stepping up the fight against child labour

GENEVA (ILO News) – A large gap remains between the ratification of Conventions on child labour and the actions countries take to deal with the problem, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report marking the tenth anniversary of...

ILO: Persistent gender gaps at work make it necessary to adopt transformative measures in Latin America and the Caribbean

Women earn 17 per cent less than men per hour worked, and despite their increased participation in the labour force, they are still far from equal. The International Labour Organization (ILO) announced a new Report today that features proposals to...

Youth Employment and Future of Work High on the Agenda of WorldSkills 2019

On 26 August 2019 Kazan hosted a round table “Youth employment and the future of work” co-organized by ILO Moscow and the Ministry of labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation on the margins of 45th WorldSkills competition.

G7 Biarritz Summit

ILO welcomes G7 prioritization of inequality

ILO Director-General Ryder emphasized at the G7 Leaders’ Summit that the tools to tackle inequality already exist, and that concrete measures are needed across a range of policy areas.

Applying the G20 Training Strategy (Phase 2)

Applying the G20 training strategy Project discussed at WorldSkills 2019

The Ministry of Education in close coordination with the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation organized a Project meeting to discuss the implementation status of the project Applying the G20 Training Strategy: A Partnership of the ILO and...

Heinz Koller: ILO Centenary Declaration is a roadmap to develop skill sets for today’s rapidly changing world of work

The “Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work” adopted by the International Labour Conference in June, calls for a “human-centered approach” to the future of work. That is more than relevant for today’s discussion entitled “A world at risk:...

Jordan holds first national conference on labour inspection

Organised by the ILO, the conference focused on ways to advance labour inspection in Jordan’s agricultural sector.

World of Work: Issues and Challenges for Trade Unions

Inaugural address by Ms Dagmar Walter, Director, ILO Country Office for India and Decent Work Team for South Asia at the National workshop on World of Work: Issues and Challenges for Trade Unions

Support for the development of Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) in Ghana

ILO and partners organize capacity building workshop to support the development of skills strategies for three sectors in Ghana in alignment with Government agenda of addressing the skills mismatch of the TVET sector.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | EGYPT - “Without the job search club, I would have never thought about applying for a job outside my field of...

An ILO’s project in Egypt helps young women and men without professional experience to find their first job, including an unemployed archaeologist from Luxor.