News and Press releases
2019
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OSH Consultative Meeting
Towards more integrated OSH programmes
21 January 2019, Da Nang, Viet Nam
The ILO initiated an occupational safety and health (OSH) consultative meeting with its relevant social partners. By sharing OSH knowledge, programmes, lessons learnt and challenges, the ILO and its social partners could develop stronger workplace prevention culture.
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News
ILO Courtesy Visit to the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs
17 January 2019, Da Nang, Viet Nam
The ILO country Office for Indonesia led by the Country Director, Michiko Miyamoto, had a courtesy visit to Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Press release
Promoting decent work and road safety for truck drivers of GMS countries
17 January 2019, Bangkok, Thailand
Governments, employers and workers from the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) agree to enhance decent work by promoting social dialogue, skills development and cross-border coordination in road freight transport.
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News
Strengthening the roles of Indonesian OSH Council to provide better protection for young workers
14 January 2019, Da Nang, Viet Nam
The participation of Indonesian youth in promoting OSH is crucial. About half the 130 million population is under the age of 30 and many of them work in sectors with a high risk of workplace accidents and disease, such as the construction sector. The ILO assisted the Indonesian OSH Council (DK3N) to strengthen its young workers’ task force so that youth have a greater voice in national OSH policy deliberations.
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News
LSGSC Closing: Sharing lessons learnt in promoting evidence-based wages fixing and collective bargaining in the garment sector
04 January 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC) came to an end in December 2018 after running for three years in Indonesia since April 2015 with focus on promoting evidence-based minimum wage fixing and wage policy development and interest-based collective bargaining.
2018
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News update
ILO Boosts Disaster Resilience of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Sri Lanka
27 December 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka
With the support from Government of Japan ILO assist in strengthening climate change resilience and disaster recovery within Sri Lanka’s MSME sector.
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Press release
Garment sector stakeholders’ firm on ensuring compliance with labour standards
19 December 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan
GSSF members concurred that policy and advocacy on formulating a wage policy framework is a key step towards minimum wage reforms.
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Labour migration
ILO supports Cambodia’s new policy and guidelines for enhanced labour migration governance and access to justice
18 December 2018,
On International Migrants Day, the Government of Cambodia launches Policy on Labour Migration and Dispute Resolution Guidelines for Resolving Migrant Worker Grievances.
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Labour migration
ILO: Social protection coverage has improved in ASEAN, but migrant workers remain among the least protected
18 December 2018,
Despite considerable progress made in the expansion of social security coverage of migrant workers in ASEAN, migrant workers remain among the least protected, says the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new study.
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News item
International Migrants Day 2018.
18 December 2018,
Sri Lanka’s Migrant Women Domestic Workers: The Family Background Report five years on