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Issues Overview FOW Meeting - Arab States

Concept Note FOW Meeting - Arab States

Agenda FOW Meeting - Arab States

Agenda FOW Meeting - Arab States

FENASOL supports ILO outreach to employers of domestic workers in Lebanon

Lebanese trade unionists meet to discuss strategies for engagement with employers of domestic workers

ILO Inter-regional Knowledge Sharing Forum Report - Good practices and lessons learned on promoting international cooperation and...

ILO in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Employment-Intensive Investment in

Lebanon

Employment-Intensive Investment Programme activities in Lebanon

Employment-Intensive Investment in

Jordan

Employment-Intensive Investment Programme activities in Jordan

Improving skills and job prospects for Jordanian and Syrian construction workers

The ILO has partnered with the National Employment and Training Company to help Syrian refugees and Jordanians working in the construction sector upgrade their professional expertise and obtain accredited skills certificates. The programme includes...

Syrian refugees

ILO’s Ruba Jaradat: We must create decent jobs, not any jobs, for Syrian refugees and host communities

The ILO’s Regional Director for Arab States Ruba Jaradat participated in a high-level panel on jobs and economic opportunities during the Helsinki Conference on Supporting Syrians and the Region from 23-24 January, at which the UN appealed for over...

Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration: Middle East Edition

ILO’s Ruba Jaradat: innovation, policy reform and labour rights key to boosting growth and job creation in MENA region

ILO Regional Director for Arab States Ruba Jaradat participated in high-level panel organized by the International Finance Corporation, and held on the sidelines of the World Bank/ IMF Annual Meeting in October 2016, under the title “Growth and job...

Asia, the Pacific and Arab States: The world of work in numbers

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder presented his report entitled “Building an inclusive future with decent work: Towards sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific,” at the 16th Asia and the Pacific Meeting (APRM) in Bali, Indonesia last month. At...

ILO and ESCWA bring together world of work actors to explore growth-employment-poverty nexus in Arab region

The interagency expert meeting and training workshop was held at the ILO’s International Training Centre in Turin, Italy from 6-8 December.

ILO’s Asia Pacific labour conference agrees to enhance labour migration governance in the interrelated regions of Asia and the Arab States

The meeting discussed issues affecting employment and the world of work in the Asia, Pacific and Arab States including labour migration.

Summary report of information session: Fair Migration with a focus on Recruitment

The information session on fair migration with a special focus on recruitment was chaired and moderated by Mr Houngbo, Deputy Director General for Field Operations, ILO.

16th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting

ILO’s Asia-Pacific labour conference calls for more efforts to achieve equitable economic growth with decent work

The meeting discussed issues affecting employment and the world of work in the Asia, Pacific and Arab States.

ILO and GCC Council of Ministers of Labour sign a Plan of Joint Activities

Signing took place on the sidelines of the 16th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM), in a move towards more cooperation between the two sides.

Asia labour conference opens with strong ILO Arab States participation

ILO’s 16TH Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) opens in Bali, Indonesia, to set world-of-work agendas in Asia, Pacific and Arab States region for the next five years. Delegates elected Bahrain’s Minister of Labour and Social Development...