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Workers in Duhok planting a landscape area as part of the ILO afforestation project in Kurdistan Region of Iraq © ILO/ Karam Al Snjarae/ Duhok/ November 2023

The International Labour Organization (ILO) established its Regional Office for Arab States (ILO ROAS) in 1976 and has worked ever since to advance the ILO’s core values across the Arab region.  

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Employment promotion
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Employment promotion

Social protection
A man in a hard hat taking notes on a paper, while another watches with a smile, in Jordan

Social protection

Labour migration
Migrant workers in Dubai, UAE

Labour migration

Green jobs and climate change
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Green jobs and climate change

Care economy
Female care workers provide childcare services in Amman, Jordan

Care economy

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Qatar Foundation and the International Labour Organization partner to help shape the future of Qatar’s workforce
ILO and QF team taking a group photo during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between QF and the ILO during the recent WISE 12 Summit in Doha, hosted by QF’s global education initiative WISE. Doha, Qatar November 2025

Qatar Foundation and the International Labour Organization partner to help shape the future of Qatar’s workforce

From overlooked to job-ready: Training equips jobseekers with disabilities for decent work in Lebanon
Participants celebrate completing the Career Preparedness Training with their certificates. Beirut, Lebanon. November 2025

International Day of Persons with Disability

From overlooked to job-ready: Training equips jobseekers with disabilities for decent work in Lebanon

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Development Cooperation Dashboard

Development Cooperation Dashboard

The dashboard offers interactive visualizations of ILO development cooperation projects across the Arab States

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Projects and programmes

Weaving Hope: Upgrading Syria’s Garment Industry and Workforce

Project

Weaving Hope: Upgrading Syria’s Garment Industry and Workforce

STREAM - Extending Social Protection to migrant workers and their families in the South Asia-Gulf Corridor

Project

STREAM - Extending Social Protection to migrant workers and their families in the South Asia-Gulf Corridor

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Publications

South–South and triangular cooperation good practices in the World of Work in a changing multilateral environment: 2024–2025

Report

South–South and triangular cooperation good practices in the World of Work in a changing multilateral environment: 2024–2025

Wage Protection Systems in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A regional analysis

New ILO-GCC joint report

Wage Protection Systems in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A regional analysis

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Multimedia

Mosaic of ILO photos from the Arab States
The Government of Papua New Guinea deposits instruments of ratification of ILO Conventions Nos 81, 144 and 190

Labour standards

The Government of Papua New Guinea deposits instruments of ratification of ILO Conventions Nos 81, 144 and 190
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Labour statistics

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