Impact and people
2021
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© GPE/Kelley Lynch 2022
It takes a community to end child labour
10 June 2021
Meet Peace Okebugwu, a project manager at the Beulah Future Leaders Foundation. She is using community education to help end child labour in Nigeria.
2017
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Telling serious things with humour: Mobile theater in Tajikistan campaigns against the informal economy
08 June 2017
Two years ago the International Labour Conference adopted the Recommendation concerning the transition from the informal to the formal economy (No.204). Since then a global campaign has started in different parts of the world to formalize the informal economy. In Tajikistan, trade unions are using theatrics to illustrate the consequences of informal employment.
2016
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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.
2014
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© ILO / Alan Dow 2022
Better talk leads to better work
02 January 2014
As Viet Nam prepares for a major expansion of international trade a new system for worker-employer relations in garment factories is helping to pave the way for improved working conditions and competitiveness.
2013
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New Horizon for Vietnamese seafarers
23 August 2013
With the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 now in force, ratifying countries, like Vietnam, are turning to implementation.