News and articles
2015
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Press release
Narratives of Empowerment - Training Workshop on Professional TV News Media Reporting of Working Women Held in Karachi
15 December 2015, Karachi, Pakistan
Pakistan’s leading national and regional TV channels and online media participated in 2 day training workshop on gender and labour sensitive reporting, aimed at improving coverage of women with narratives of positivity and empowerment
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Press release
National Center of the Public Employment Services opened
15 December 2015,
The National Center of the Public Employment Services (NPES) was ceremonially declared open by the Honorable Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations, W.D.J Seneviratne, and the State Minister of Labour and Trade Unions Relations Mr. Ravindra Samaraweera
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Press release
Promoting decent work for homeworkers in Indonesia: Homeworkers are workers!
15 December 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia
Despite their long existence in Indonesia, subcontracted homeworkers, often referred as workers in the putting-out system, have been largely invisible because work is carried out at home by mostly women who also take care of household and family care responsibilities, and remunerative work is often considered as side activities carried out by women rather than real work.
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News
DIFE labour inspectors successfully complete online OSH course
12 December 2015,
Inspectors from the Department of Inspections for Factories and Establishments have successfully completed a distance learning course on Occupational Safety and Health organized by ILO.
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News
Ministry of Manpower and Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises to provide equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities
11 December 2015,
The date of 11 December 2015 marked an important step in the elimination of discrimination against people with disabilities in the workplace.
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Press release
Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals and Decent Work
11 December 2015,
The Ministry of Labour and Trade Union Relations, together with the International Labour Organization (ILO), organized the first Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals and Decent Work on the 11th December 2015 in Colombo.
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News
150 new entrepreneurs ready for business following ILO training
11 December 2015,
150 new entrepreneurs will get down to business after receiving entrepreneurship training by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in collaboration with the Bangladesh Employers Federation (BEF).
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Press release
Textile exporting units in Faisalabad trained on compliance with Labour Standards
09 December 2015, Faisalabad, Pakistan
From 8-22 December 2015, the ILO in collaboration with the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) and Oxfam-Novib will run a series of seminars covering eight thematic areas on International Labour Standards. The seminars target management and workers in 12 textile exporting industrial units in Faisalabad with the objective of raising awareness on and enhancing compliance with labour standards and labour laws in the textile sector of Pakistan.
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News
ILO Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform Project comes to a close
08 December 2015,
The contribution of the International Labour Organization’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform Project to establishing a stronger skills development system in Bangladesh was recognized at a closing ceremony for the initiative held in Dhaka 7 December 2015.
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Youth employment
ILO signed a cooperation agreement with Renmin University
03 December 2015,
In a recent UN-wide Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth, ILO will take the lead to scale up action on youth employment for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.