Cooperatives offer migrant workers options for better lives

Cooperative enterprises have improved the lives of women and men migrant workers and their families for decades. Migrants find income and jobs, access affordable goods and services and find empowerment through cooperative enterprises, participating in the cooperative movement. Moreover, cooperative enterprises are facilitating economic, social and cultural integration or re-integration of migrant workers in both destination and home countries.

Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade, and Employment

New FAO publication on child labour in the livestock sector

FAO has published the first global study on child labour issues related to livestock. The study has benefited from ILO-IPEC inputs.

Egypt’s farmers: Sowing the seeds of an agricultural revolution

Agriculture will be critical to future economic growth in Egypt, says the ILO – but only if the laws on farmers’ co-ops are reformed.

Netherlands and ILO cooperate to eliminate child labour in agriculture

Project will combat the worst forms of child labour in seasonal agriculture in Turkey.

Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering vulnerability studies, stigma and discrimination studies, impact and cost-benefit studies.

Corporate brochure on ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

Prevent HIV, Protect Human Rights at Work

Indigenous women workers - With case studies from Bangladesh, Nepal and the Americas

This paper draws on the expertise and experience of two specialized ILO teams - the Programme to Promote ILO Convention No. 169 (PRO169) based in the International Labour Standards Department and the ILO’s Bureau for Gender Equality - with the aim of examining indigenous women’s position in the workforce.

Ergonomic Checkpoints in Agriculture

Agriculture is one of the most hazardous sectors in both developing and developed countries. Increasing attention is being given to applying practical actions in rural and agricultural settings to reduce work-related accidents and diseases, improve living conditions and increase productivity...

Safety and Health in Agriculture. Code of practice

This code of practice is intended to raise awareness of the hazards and risks associated with agriculture and promote their effective management and control; to help prevent occupational accidents and diseases and improve the working environment in practice; to encourage governments, employers, workers and other stakeholders to cooperate to prevent accidents and diseases; and to promote more positive attitudes and behaviour towards occupational safety and health in agriculture throughout the sector.