News

March 2021

  1. Joint event by ILO and TURK-IS Emphasizes Importance of Gender Equality and Trade Unions’ Role in Promoting Gender Equality in the World of Work

    15 March 2021

    Participants expressed that TURK-IS engaged in awareness-raising activities to promote gender equality, established women’s committees, organized training programmes, and launched campaigns.

  2. The UN Resident Coordinator in Turkey and ILO Turkey Director Call for Taking Action to End Child Labour

    12 March 2021

    On the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, the UN Resident Coordinator in Turkey and ILO Turkey Director call for taking action to end child labour through individual and corporate pledges. - Rodriguez and Özcan: “Do your share, submit your pledges to eradicate child labour”.

  3. The UN Resident Coordinator in Turkey and ILO Turkey Director Call for Taking Action to End Child Labour

    12 March 2021

    On the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, the UN Resident Coordinator in Turkey and ILO Turkey Director call for taking action to end child labour through individual and corporate pledges. - Rodriguez and Özcan: “Do your share, submit your pledges to eradicate child labour”.

  4. ILO Calls Support for Social Dialogue and ILO Convention for Decent Home-Work

    05 March 2021

    The event highlights that home-work is a form of work that is without security low-paid, lacking organisation, unclear working hours, not conducive to work-life balance for most home workers including particularly women, and ILO calls support for ILO Convention.

  5. © ILO 2024

    ILO Turkey’s report reveals home-based work is primarily shaped by gender roles

    02 March 2021

    A report by the ILO Office for Turkey on home-based work – the oldest form of work that has become even more widespread in the times of COVID-19 pandemic – reveals the gender-based dimensions of home-based work. “Home bounded – Global outreach: Home-based workers in Turkey”, establishes that home-based work, regardless of workers’ socio-economic status, is a form of work without social security or social protection.

  6. © Gloria Mbuya 2024

    How to strengthen gender measures and data in the COVID-19 era

    01 March 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has hit sectors where women are over-represented the hardest: tourism, retail, the care economy. Yet the pandemic has also exposed data collection gaps that undermine our ability to craft effective policy responses.

February 2021

  1. © UNDP Turkey 2024

    Joint ILO - UNDP Action Supports Local Crafts and Small Artisans in Turkey’s Gaziantep for Face Mask Production against the Coronavirus Pandemic

    25 February 2021

    UNDP and ILO joint action with EU-KfW funding will support Gaziantep Union of Chambers of Artisans and Craftsmen (GESOB) with production and delivery of 25,000 face masks daily. The masks will meet the needs of thousands of workers in the city’s industrial zone where some 4,500 SMEs and 40,000 employees are currently operating. Apart from enabling accessibility to life-saving personal protective equipment to thousands, the action where both UN agencies cooperate also supports local socio-economic empowerment through skills development and vocational training of Syrian refugees in Gaziantep province, with refugee women and men employed in the production line at GESOB Vocational Training Center. The joint-action is being implemented as part of ILO’s and UNDP’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

  2. © Marvin Meyer 2024

    Rapid growth of digital economy calls for coherent policy response

    23 February 2021

    The growth of digital labour platforms is presenting opportunities and challenges for workers and businesses and a need for international policy dialogue.

  3. Show must go on!

    22 February 2021

    The series of podcasts organized jointly by ILO and UNDP Turkey Offices continue to address creative industries and performing arts.

  4. Show must go on!

    The series of podcasts organized jointly by ILO and UNDP Turkey Offices continue to address creative industries and performing arts.

  5. Home-Work to be Addressed in a Webinar on 4 March

    22 February 2021

    Home-work, which has become more widespread as a form of work since the outbreak of pandemic, will be discussed from the perspective of gender equality and decent work in the webinar.