News and articles
2016
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News
Better Work Indonesia Business Forum 2016
12 September 2016, Jakarta, Indonesia
More than 20 buyers and vendors participated in the Forum. This year annual forum was open to wider participation by upstream players such as vendors to support innovative solutions to labour standards challenges in their global supply chains.
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© ASIF HASSAN / AFP 2024
Press release
Compensation arrangement agreed for victims of the Ali Enterprise factory fire in Pakistan
10 September 2016,
An ILO enabled agreement has been reached on compensation for victims of the 2012 Ali Enterprises garment factory in Baldia, Karachi.
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Gender equality
Creating a culture of gender equality in Indonesian SMEs
09 September 2016, Jakarta, Indonesia
The large majority of employment for both women and men in Indonesia is found in small-sized and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with more than 50 percent of Indonesian workers are still engaged in informal employment. Furthermore, the key to sustainable economic development that leads to effective poverty reduction also lies in competitive and growing SMEs.
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Fight against HIV
Viet Nam’s journalists trained to communicate sex work
07 September 2016,
The workshop aims to bridge the gaps in the current media coverage of sex work including usage of language, knowledge and approaches.
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© Gao feng / Imaginechina 2024
Press release
ILO Director-General: China charts the future of work
06 September 2016, Beijing, China
China is “shaping its own future”, Guy Ryder tells delegates to the first national dialogue on the future of work, but profound challenges lie ahead for the country, and for the planet.
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News
Investigative and Inclusive Reporting in Fragile Democracies Training for Journalists in Suva, Fiji
06 September 2016, Fiji
Valuing Voices is an innovative arts-in-development project, designed to support human rights advocacy in relation to Fiji’s international commitments to media independence focusing on human rights defenders of women and children and supported by MIDA
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Memorandum of Understanding
ILO-China strategic partnership consolidated with MOU renewal
06 September 2016,
On the eve of ILO’s centenary and the 40th anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening-up Initiative, the ILO and the MOHRSS are re-defining their cooperation as a strategic partnership on the basis of important achievements made particularly in the last 15 years.
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© Marc Veraart 2024
Press release
ILO: Universal social protection already a reality in many developing countries
06 September 2016, Beijing, China
At a high level conference on universal social protection ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has told delegates that: “In 2016, a lack of social protection is completely unacceptable. This has to change, and this can change.”
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News
Young Entrepreneurs Council Vanuatu supported by Pacific Youth Council
06 September 2016,
ILO supports young entrepreneurs to be part of national private sector organizations in Vanuatu
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Press release
ILO and Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) discuss steps for creating an enabling business environment
05 September 2016, Kathmandu, Nepal
The meeting focused on the policy environment and practical issues related to business development, employment creation, industrial relation and promoting social dialogue.