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Heat stress

High temperatures linked to increased mortality among workers in Colombia, ILO study finds

Agricultural workers, assemblers and health and teaching professionals are among the occupational groups facing the greatest mortality risks associated with high temperatures, according to a new ILO working paper.

ILO Working Paper 178

Climate-Related Heat Stress and Occupational Mortality in Colombia

This paper looks at the relationship between high temperatures and mortality among workers in Colombia, identifying the occupations most affected and highlighting the need for stronger prevention and social protection measures.

Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons

Colombia: Equal rights as a foundation for inclusion and equal opportunity and treatment

This brief is part of the series 'Labour market inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons' produced by the International Labour Organization.

Key actors from Colombia’s main agricultural supply chains conclude diploma programme on living wages and incomes

Representatives of workers’ organisations, companies from the coffee, banana and palm oil sectors, and public institutions participated in RURALIA, an ILO programme aimed at strengthening technical capacities and promoting social dialogue on living...

ILC.114/CAN/D/Colombia-C.87

Information on the application of ratified Conventions supplied by governments on the list of individual cases (Colombia, C.87, CAN 2026)

ILO Working Paper 169

Unpacking informality: A multidimensional policy decomposition

This working paper presents a practical additive decomposition of informal employment, showing where policy action can reduce it. Applied to the case of Colombia, it identifies the main factors behind recent declines in informality.

ILO and Nestlé partner to advance labour rights in coffee supply chains

ILO and Nestlé launch a two-year project to promote fair recruitment and labour rights in coffee supply chains in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

This is social justice

Digital tools boost ancestral craft and livelihoods in Colombia

For centuries, Wayúu Indigenous artisans like Arleidis Laudith Puschaina Puschaina have woven bags and hammocks. With support from Colombia’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies and the National Training Service, they now use...

ILO Voices | Digital skills for youth

Digital skills revived my mother’s food business and our family bond

Rafael Meza is a student from Colombia, one of more than 60,000 young people who are benefitting from the ILO-supported SENATIC project. Through the programme, he is learning digital marketing skills that are helping him boost his mother’s food...

With the support of the ILO, a young programmer turns his passion for technology into a social purpose through SENATIC

At just 17 years old, Marlon Santiago Hernández López already sees the world through code. Technology is not only an early passion for him but also a language for transforming realities. Through the SENATIC project, the ILO is supporting the growth...

Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining models in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

This comparative study brings together the legal frameworks, institutions and mechanisms that govern collective bargaining in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, providing a clear overview of their respective models and specific features.

Partnering for Development

Advancing digital education and opportunities for Colombia’s youth

SENATIC, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC), the National Training Service (SENA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), is one of Colombia’s most ambitious efforts in Digital...

International Day of Care and Support

ILO highlights the role of cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy in transforming care work and closing gender gaps

The ILO presents an analysis of how cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy offer sustainable and inclusive solutions to the care crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Social Protection

Colombia strengthens its path toward the ratification of Convention No. 102

The ILO is supporting representatives of the Government, employers, and workers in Colombia in strengthening their capacities on international social security standards.

ILO nurtures dreams with a scent of training: Artissan Café, the fruit of SENATIC in the mountains of Risaralda

In the misty highlands of Santa Rosa de Cabal, where rural hamlets seem suspended in the clouds and coffee grows as a farming legacy, three young people decided to change the story of their community. Thanks to the SENATIC project a partnership...

The strength of Hercules in the classroom: the ILO and the legacy of Giovanny Suárez Iglesias in Santa Marta

Just like Hercules, who in Greco Roman mythology combined physical strength with nobility of spirit, Giovanny Alfonzo Suárez Iglesias stands out for his imposing presence and for the impact he leaves on those around him. Standing 1.94 metres tall...

ILO delivered training programme on International Labour Standards for judicial officials in Colombia

In partnership with the Supreme Court of Justice and the Rodrigo Lara Bonilla Judicial School, the ILO held two training events in Bucaramanga and Medellín in August 2025 to strengthen capacities for the application of International Labour Standards...

ILO Voices | Care economy

Our community now sees the value of care work

Yoraima Cristina Navarro Izquierdo is an Arhuaco leader and founder of Josa Peace Builders, an association of women weavers in Colombia. An ILO project has provided training on economic autonomy and recognizing care work, and is helping Yoraima and...

Information sheet

The ILO and the social and solidarity economy in Latin America and the Caribbean

This document provides an overview of the ILO’s recent and ongoing work on the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

From San Andrés island, lives are being transformed through technology and an ILO backed project

This is the case of Keyn Manuel Martínez, who guides his eleventh grade students along the path of technical education, creatively tackling the challenges of language, exclusion, and the geographical distance between the archipelago and the...