All publications: workers with disabilities
Getting hired: A guide for job-seekers with disabilities
This manual, used as a companion to training manual Getting hired: a trainer's manual for conducting a workshop for job-seekers with disabilities, can be helpful to organizations of people with disabilities, placement agencies, non-governmental...
Fact sheet - SKILLS-AP and support for people with disabilities
Facts on people with disabilities in China
ILO Project on Employment Equality and Non-Discrimination aims at promoting non-discrimination and equal employment opportunity through improving government officials’, social partners’, and employers’ knowledge of the concepts and issues around...
ILO Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention (No. 159) and Recommendation (No. 168); United Nations...
The book contains the text of ILO Convention No. 159 on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons), 1983, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 168. It also contains the text of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...
Mapping report of vocational training and employment for people with disabilities in Viet Nam
This report provides an overview of organisations of or representing people with disabilities as well as services related to vocational training, employment and entrepreneurship for people with disabilities. Specific focus has been placed on...
Recognizing ability : the skills and productivity of persons with disabilities : literature review
Employment Working Paper No. 3
Fact sheet - Disability discrimination at work
An estimated 470 million of the world's working age people have some form of disability. These disabilities differ in the nature of impairment as well as the degree of severity. In combination with these disabilities, issues such as gender, age and...
The right to work - executive summary ILO 2007
Facts on Disability in the world of work
“Decent work is the ILO’s primary goal for everyone, including people with disabilities. When we promote the rights and dignity of people with disabilities, we are empowering individuals, strengthening economies and enriching societies at large.”...
Achieving equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities through legislation. Guidelines
These guidelines reflect the reappraisal of disability as a human rights issue. Intended for policy-makers and drafters of legislation, they have been developed with a view to assisting in improving the effectiveness of national laws concerning...
The employment situation of people with disabilities: Towards improved statistical information
The right to decent work of persons with disabilities
This publication provides an invaluable overview of the principal international legal instruments, policies and initiatives of relevance to the rights of people with disabilities, with a particular focus on employment and work. It focuses on the...
The employment situation of people with disabilities: Towards improved statistical information
This guide highlights basic knowledge from the fields of labour and disability statistics which has to be combined for a comprehensive description of the employment situation of people with disabilities. It will be of great relevance to worldwide...
Facts on Disability in the World of Work
One of every 10 people in the world has a disability — some 650 million worldwide. Approximately 470 million are of working age.
Link and learn : progress assessment of the approach adopted to promoting the inclusion of women entrepreneurs with disabilities into the...
Strategies for skills acquisition for people with disabilities in Southern Africa
Synthesis report : Malawi, South Africa and Zambia
Strategies for skills acquisition for people with disabilities in Southern Africa - Malawi
Strategies for skills acquisition for people with disabilities in Southern Africa - Zambia
Promoting the employability and employment of people with disabilities through effective legislation (Southern Africa) : Zambia country...
Prepared by the ILO Skills and Employability Department. Funded by Ireland Aid
Promoting the employability and employment of people with disabilities through effective legislation (Southern Africa) : South Africa...
Prepared by the ILO Skills and Employability Department. Funded by Ireland Aid