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Green jobs

ILO-supported national initiatives win policy ‘Oscars’

The Future Policy Awards, recognizes the world’s most impactful policies empowering youth.

United Nations General Assembly

World Leaders Gather to Mobilize Solutions to Shape the Future of Work

World leaders called for bold, innovative action to implement a human-centered approach to the future of work.

UN General Assembly

ILO and UNCCD to work together on human impacts of desertification

Ahead of the UN Climate Summit, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding supporting closer cooperation on climate-related issues,...

UN Climate Action Summit

Just transition commitments made by many countries at UN Climate Action Summit

Prime Minister of Spain announces commitments made by close to 50 countries to create just transition plans designed to ensure ambitious climate action delivers significant social gains with decent green jobs.

United Nations General Assembly

Importance of decent jobs, just transition to be highlighted at UN Climate Action Summit and General Assembly

ILO Director-General will promote decent work and a ‘just transition’ to greener economies, when he joins world leaders for the UN Climate Summit and UN General Assembly in New York.

United Nations General Assembly

UN Secretary-General announces new Climate Action Summit jobs initiative, urges countries to join

The initiative provides a roadmap for ensuring that people’s jobs and well-being are at the centre of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy.

United Nations General Assembly

UN General Assembly endorses ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work

The UNGA resolution provides an opportunity for the UN system to promote a human-centred approach to the future of work.

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

ILO welcomes G20 commitment to human-centred future of work policies

The G20 Labour and Employment Ministers have adopted a Declaration committing to human-centred world of work policies. The ILO’s Director-General, who took part in the meeting in Japan, welcomed the statement.

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.

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.

G7 Biarritz Summit

The workplace equality challenge

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has welcomed the decision to place the fight against inequality at the heart of this year’s G7 summit. Ryder, who will be attending the 24 to 26 August summit in Biarritz, France, called inequality one of the key...

Child Labour

2021 declared International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

The UN General Assembly has urged the international community to step up efforts to eradicate forced labour and child labour, and declared 2021 as the Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.

ILO100

UK House of Lords praises ILO on its Centenary

As part of a general debate in the UK House of Lords, members congratulated the ILO on its 100th anniversary and praised its achievements in furthering social justice and decent work.

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...

École Nationale d'Administration

No time for complacency

The ILO needs to stand as a bulwark against the ‘new brutalism’ in the world, said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder in a speech on the future of work to the École nationale d’administration in Strasbourg.

G20 Japan 2019

ILO welcomes G20 commitment to inclusion and equality

G20 leaders, meeting in Osaka, issued a communique stressing the importance of ensuring that ageing societies are active, and supporting gender equality and women's economic empowerment.

Day 8: 108th International Labour Conference - Thematic Forum

Well-functioning multilateral system key to an equitable future of work

Speakers at a thematic forum examined what needs to be done at international and regional level to reduce inequality and how the multilateral system can work more coherently to achieve this. The debate was held at the International Labour...

International cooperation

An inconvenient truth

"We need to address the causes of the rise in populism and ethno-nationalism," said ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, at a meeting in Vienna of the European Trade Union Confederation Congress.

ILO100

UN Secretary-General, Swiss authorities, mark ILO’s 100th anniversary

The ceremony at ILO headquarters in Geneva included the unveiling of a commemorative plaque and the inauguration of an avenue of trees celebrating 100 years of the ILO.

Media advisory

ILO to host UN Secretary-General for the ILO Centenary