Impact and people
2022
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Better Work partners with Sri Lankan garment industry stakeholders
25 February 2022
The ILO and IFC’s Better Work programme is launching an ambitious industry-level intervention in Sri Lanka, with the support of the European Union. The shared goal is to strengthen the apparel industry recovering from the pandemic and work toward a future of increased resilience, efficiency, and sustainability.
2016
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International Day on Indigenous Peoples 2016
08 August 2016
On the occasion of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2016, the ILO hosted a panel on the critical role of indigenous and tribal peoples as agents of change in both achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and combating climate change.
2015
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From market seller to managing director in Côte d’Ivoire
16 March 2015
ILO News talks to a young Ivorian woman who in a few years went from selling goods at local markets to being a successful entrepreneur whose dreams reach beyond the Ivory Coast.
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In their own voices
02 March 2015
An ILO-produced film documents the opportunities and obstacles on the path taken by migrant health-care workers from the Philippines.
2013
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“A million voices: The world we want”
12 September 2013
For almost one year, more than one million people from around the globe shared their ideas about the shape and content of the future global development agenda. Those ideas are now reflected in a major UN report.
2012
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A dream made of bricks and mortar
27 August 2012
Construction workers are in great demand in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in 2010. Skills, on the other hand, are in short supply.
2011
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From the depths of an African shantytown, a nascent youth employment movement grows
14 December 2011
In Africa’s second largest slum, youth unemployment is sky high. But cooperative projects are helping youth find work and slowly lift themselves out of poverty through such projects as raising food in community gardens, processing waste for bio-fuel or providing improved sanitation. Journalist Anne Holmes reports on how this emerging economic revival is making a small but significant dent in a major ongoing challenge.