Resources on Iraq

  1. Newsletter: ILO in Iraq

    31 December 2021

    2021 - A Year in Review

  2. Children, journalists and local NGOs join campaign to combat child labour in Iraq’s Kurdistan region

    21 December 2021

    Young children, journalists and NGOs take part in awareness raising activities promoting education and highlighting the dangers of child labour.

  3. Children, journalists and local organizations say “No to Child Labour” in Iraq’s Kurdistan region

    21 December 2021

    A nation-wide campaign is reaching communities most affected by the rise of child labour in Iraq.

  4. Awareness raising activities to combat child labour launched in Iraq

    19 December 2021

    The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the International Labour Organization kicked off a series of activities that support a nation-wide campaign to tackle the worst forms of child labour in Iraq.

  5. Iraq launches activities to combat child labour as part of nation-wide campaign

    19 December 2021

    Iraq’s Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the ILO have unveiled new awareness-raising activities as part of a campaign to tackle the worst forms of child labour in the country.

  6. Improved Business Development Services targeting MSMEs in Iraq

    16 December 2021

    By introducing and institutionalizing the ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business programme within the International Organization for Migration (IOM), potential as well as existing entrepreneurs will benefit from quality support services that allow them to start or enhance the performance of existing businesses, helping create employment opportunities for IDPs and host communities.

  7. Social Protection Programme for Iraq: Leveraging Effective Response and Accelerating Reform

    16 December 2021

    The overall objective of the joint programme is to ensure that by 2024, the vulnerable and the poor, including children, youth, women, elderly, informal workers, persons with disabilities and Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq benefit from equitable access to an integrated social protection system.

  8. ILO and constituents discuss social protection reform in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    The meeting focused on efforts to enhance social protection for workers and their families.

  9. World Social Protection Report 2020–22: Regional companion report for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

    30 November 2021

    This regional companion report for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2021–22. Social Protection at the Crossroads – in Pursuit of a Better Future. The regional companion report first gives a global perspective that is taken from the main report and outlines recent developments in social protection systems worldwide. It then highlights key developments, challenges and priorities for social protection in the MENA region.

  10. ILO, IOM collaborate to improve business development services for small enterprises in Iraq

    29 November 2021

    Under the new collaboration, the ILO has introduced its advanced entrepreneurship and business management training programme, Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB), to selected staff of IOM, to enable them to deliver the programme to IOM-supported existing and potential entrepreneurs.