Impact and people
2022
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Helping Women Workers Manage Cultural and Professional Barriers in Pakistan
14 February 2022
Female labour force participation in urban Pakistan is among the lowest in the world. In a new training, home-based women workers learn financial literacy, and perhaps most importantly, self-advocacy.
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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.
2021
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Decent work along the supply chains: Nurturing women’s entrepreneurship in Nepal
03 August 2021
A step towards formalization of women-led, small and micro home-based enterprises in Nepal’s supply chains helps business and workers alike.
2018
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Better Work Viet Nam challenges sexual harassment across the factory floor
14 September 2018
Still an underreported issue in the country, the joint programme of the ILO and the International Finance Cooperation (IFC), sheds light on the nature of harassment in the workplace and ways to tackle it.
2015
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Protecting pregnant workers’ rights in Lesotho
17 September 2015
How the Better Work Programme of the ILO and the International Finance Cooperation (IFC) promotes decent work for young women in Lesotho’s garment industry.
2012
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All aboard the women’s rights bus
24 September 2012
For working women in Pakistan, the bus ride to work can be particularly uncomfortable. The country’s National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) has been trying to change that, with a bit of help from the ILO.
2011
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Gender-based violence comes at high social and economic cost
01 August 2011
Gender-based violence negatively impacts the world of work. It is described by many as the most prevalent human rights violation in the world, with at least one in three women globally estimated to have been coerced into sex, physically beaten, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
2010
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Small premiums, long-term benefits: Why poor women need microinsurance
01 August 2010
Microinsurance coverage is an important safety net for households in developing countries, providing a tool to protect productive assets. For poor women, however, coverage can be even more critical.