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World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Around the world, the 2025 SafeDay campaign explored how AI and digitalization are revolutionizing safety and health

Every 28 April, the ILO commemorates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work to promote safe, healthy and decent working environments.

Partnership for sustainable development

ECA and ILO forge partnership to promote social justice and inclusive economic growth in Africa

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and ILO have signed a groundbreaking MoU to advance social justice and inclusive economic growth across Africa. The partnership will focus on job creation, youth and women’s empowerment, social...

ILO Data

How might generative AI impact different occupations?

Much of the interest on AI and work concerns its possible effects on job losses – will jobs be replaced by AI or will they be transformed? While it is not possible to predict the future – particularly as the technology is still evolving – ILO...

ILO Working Paper 140

Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure

This ILO Working Paper refines the global measurement of occupational exposure to generative AI by combining task-level data, expert input, and AI model predictions. It offers an improved methodological framework to assess how GenAI may impact jobs...

Joint study

One in four jobs at risk of being transformed by GenAI, new ILO–NASK Global Index shows

The refined global index of exposure to Generative AI offers policymakers a vital tool for managing the impact on work.

Research Brief

Generative AI and jobs: A 2025 update

This brief summarizes an ILO Working paper that refines the global assessment of occupational exposure to generative AI. It presents an updated methodology combining task-level data, expert input, and AI predictions to support more accurate analysis...

Media Advisory

ILO to release comprehensive new index on how generative AI affects jobs worldwide

The report offers the most comprehensive global analysis to date of how generative AI may impact the world of work.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Transforming Indonesia’s workplace health and safety through AI innovation

The fourth ILO artificial intelligence (AI) and the world of work forum aims to explore how AI and digitalization reshaping occupational safety and health in workplaces worldwide.

AI and Work

Digital transformation is pivotal to achieving the goal of universal social protection

This article explores how digital technologies, including AI, are enhancing the delivery and inclusiveness of social protection systems – while also highlighting the risks, governance challenges, and equity considerations they raise. Drawing on...

Safety + Health for All

Cambodia embraces AI and digitalization for safer and healthier workplaces

Cambodia observed the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, reaffirming its commitment to creating safer, healthier workplaces in the digital age.

Youth employment

Kenyan Youth Harness AI to Tackle Unemployment

A youth-driven AI hackathon in Nakuru, Kenya, supported by the International Labour Organization, empowered young innovators to design tech-driven solutions to unemployment, ranging from digital farming advice to inclusive online learning platforms.

Uganda’s pilot opens doors for youth and refugees to the digital economy

ILO supported Online Gig Work pilot programme equipped over 200 youth and refugees in Uganda with essential digital skills, paving the way for income generation and greater inclusion in the global gig economy.

BRICS Brazil

The ILO calls on BRICS to strengthen efforts on social justice as groundbreaking LEMM declaration on AI and Just Transition is adopted

BRICS Labour Ministers adopted their Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting Declaration during their annual meeting in Brazil.

Research Brief

How and when will AI impact the economy: Evidence from China

This brief introduces a new framework to estimate when and how AI will impact China’s economy by analyzing the potential for automation across different job tasks. It provides policymakers and researchers with a quantitative tool to assess AI’s...

Technology with purpose: a young man supporting his mother’s business and shaping his life project through SENATIC and the ILO

At just 17 years of age, Rafael Alfonso Meza Guerra discovered in technology a way to reconnect with his past, support his mother, and build a future filled with purpose thanks to his training under the SENATIC project an alliance between the...

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Indonesia welcomes the latest ILO report on the transformation of AI and digitalization to occupational safety and health

Indonesia values the latest ILO report on AI and digitalization, recognizing it as a crucial opportunity to align the country’s inspection and preventive measures with the changing dynamics of the modern workplace.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025: Global Report

Revolutionizing health and safety: The role of AI and digitalization at work

AI and digitalization are transforming safety and health at work

A new ILO report unveils opportunities and risks ahead of World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

Press Release

Brasília Hosts the 4th BRICS Employment Working Group Meeting Focused on Artificial Intelligence and Just Transition

By focusing on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Just Transition, the 4th BRICS Employment Working Group meeting in Brasília convened to ensure a fair, inclusive, and sustainable future of work in BRICS member states through South-South and...

Press release

ILO unveils key data on web-based platform work in Latin America and the Caribbean

New ILO report provides unprecedented data on workers in web-based digital platforms in Latin America and the Caribbean.