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ILO100

UN General Assembly commemorates the ILO Centenary

A special session marks the ILO’s 100 years, followed by a series of high-level discussions on the future of work.

Future of business

Business models worldwide face radical change: ILO-IOE study

A new study finds that innovation and flexibility are needed in the face of major changes affecting the way businesses around the world operate.

Questions and Answers

The importance of South-South cooperation

Rebeca Grynspan talks about South-South Cooperation and the Future of Work in the context of the 2nd High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40) taking place in Buenos Aires, March 20-22. Grynspan was a Member of the...

Social protection

Countries urged to act on universal social protection

To end poverty, ensure social protection for all and make good on international commitments made in 2015, countries around the world have been urged at a ministerial-level conference at the International Labour Organization to take five actions...

Media advisory

High Level Conference - Together to achieve Universal Social Protection by 2030

PAGE Ministerial Conference

We cannot tolerate the cost of inaction on climate change

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder outlined three key climate change challenges and put forward a number of proposals, in an address to the Ministerial Conference of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), in South Africa.

International Migrants Day

ILO announces winners of the 2018 Global Media Competition on Labour Migration

Winning entries provide outstanding, balanced, reporting on labour migration and fair recruitment.

G20 Leaders' Summit

Leaders’ Declaration stresses the need to put people first in preparing the future of work

G20 Communiqué covers key issues, including the future of work, infrastructure for development, sustainable food supply and gender equality.

G20 Leaders’ Summit

We can both create jobs and protect the environment

Job opportunity and economic growth can happen without costing the planet, said ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, at a G20 discussion on “Embracing the Opportunities (Infrastructure; Energy transitions; A sustainable food future)”.

G20 Leaders’ Summit

The right policies will create a future of work we want

ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, outlined critical future of work issues in a session at the G20 Leaders’ Summit on “Putting People First - Discussion Topics: Global economy; the future of work; women’s empowerment.”

G20 informal Employment Working Group

G20 countries are leaders in shaping the future of work

In remarks at a meeting of the G20 Informal Employment Working Group at ILO headquarters in Geneva, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, outlined the key issues facing a rapidly changing world of work.

Flagship Programme on Social Protection

Expand social protection to the 4 billion excluded

More than 100 top government officials, business representatives, trade unionists, development agencies and two UN agency heads have signed a call for action for countries to expand social security and assistance to more than four billion people...

Luxembourg reaffirms support to the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

Donor renews partnership with the ILO with a particular focus on the Sahel region

ECLAC and ILO stress importance of moving toward a more sustainable development model to create new job opportunities

In a joint publication, the organizations forecast, for example, that the transition toward energy sustainability would create more than one million jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

ILO Director-General praises G20 commitment on future of work

The changes affecting the world of work, including the need for lifelong learning, better social protection and an approach that leaves no-one behind, were the focus of discussions by the G20 Labour and Education Ministers’, at a meeting in...

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

Youth employment

Lebanon: Better technical and vocational education and training for higher youth employment

At the launch of the Technical and Vocational and Education Training (TVET) National Strategic Framework, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri says the framework will increase employment prospects for youth and boost productivity and economic growth.

Human rights

Coalition launches new independent ‘Centre for Sport and Human Rights’

The International Labour Organization will be a member of the Centre’s governance committee, along with the International Organisation of Employers, the International Trade Union Confederation, UN agencies and other organizations.

Global Summit in Singapore

The future we want depends on innovative policies, responsible business conduct and people-centred technology

ILO head says that “businesses have a central role to play in fighting the global scourge of forced labour”.