News
June 2019
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Blog
Dreams of Gold
12 June 2019
Creating a virtual reality film of child gold miners in Ghana exposed cameraman Damien Riunaud to the realities of this brutal, dangerous work, and the importance of the ILO’s campaign to end it.
April 2015
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Press release
ILO Director-General to attend the 2015 Job Summit in Ghana
09 April 2015
The first-ever National Job Summit in Accra, Ghana will kick off on 15 April in the presence of H.E. President John Dramani Mahama, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder and Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa, Aeneas Chapinga Chuma
August 2013
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International labour standards
Ghana ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006)
20 August 2013
With the ratification by Ghana, 44 ILO Member States representing nearly 75 per cent of the world’s global shipping tonnage have now committed themselves to the decent work standards of the Convention.
September 2011
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Press release
ILO and chocolate and cocoa industry forge new partnership to combat child labour in West Africa
12 September 2011
Eight companies in the chocolate and cocoa industry – ADM, Barry Callebaut, Cargill, Ferrero, The Hershey Company, Kraft Foods, Mars, Incorporated, and Nestlé – have pledged US $2 million to a new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the International Labour Office (ILO) to combat child labour in cocoa growing communities in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.