Impact and people
2022
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Breaking Stereotypes
10 January 2022
Rural women in Kyrgyzstan are successfully developing their own businesses at home instead of migrating abroad.
2018
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Families Empowered to Start Business to Free Children from Hard Work
07 August 2018
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is helping the local governments in Osh and Kara-Suu District of the Osh Region to introduce child labour monitoring as part of the efforts to implement the Regulation on identification of children and families in hardship. The monitoring allows to identify child workers at risk and provide them with rehabilitation and assistance they need.
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Kyrgyzstan: Looking for digital solutions to combat child labour
12 June 2018
The ILO in Kyrgyzstan partnered with young information technology (IT) specialists to find ways of applying innovative digital technologies to help monitor child labour.
2016
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Back to school: Remedial classes for working children begin in Kyrgyzstan
08 October 2016
Three formal remedial classes for children with breaks in their education, school drop-outs and child labourers have started at the secondary school No. 94 in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek.
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“Step out of the shadow!”: How cartoons support a campaign to formalize the Kyrgyz economy
06 June 2016
Last year, the International Labour Conference adopted the Recommendation concerning the transition from the informal to the formal economy (No.204). An innovative project in Kyrgyzstan shows how this transition can be facilitated in practice.
2015
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Out of child labour and into school: The story of Alimjan
11 June 2015
Alimjan’s mother did not see any harm in her son’s work, even though he was still a child. On the contrary, she believed that the sooner he learned how to earn money, the better. Read about how an ILO project helped get a boy out of child labour and into school.
2010
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‘The main change has to happen in peoples’ minds’: a child labour film programme in Kyrgyzstan
11 June 2010
The ILO Global Report “Accelerating action against child labour“, launched in May 2010 calls for “better targeted advocacy” based on “filling important knowledge gaps and making greater use of the media”. This story shows how a small-scale but successful child labour awareness programme in one of the Central Asian countries is putting this kind of advocacy to work.