Resources on Rural economy

Issue Brief no. 4 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Negotiating for gender equality

27 September 2016

Inequality of opportunity, treatment and outcomes between women and men still persists in global labour markets. Achieving gender equality in the workplace remains one of the biggest challenges for governments, social partners and management at enterprise level. Gender-based discrimination often occurs at the recruitment stage on grounds of pregnancy, or potential child bearing and rearing and the gender pay gap remains high across the world. In addition, women are more likely to be affected by violence at work, whether physical, psychological or sexual. This Issue Brief focuses on the obstacles to gender equality at work and how collective bargaining can be used as an effective tool to overcome these challenges.

Employment and Decent Work in fragile situations: Pathways for peace and resilience

Strengthening national leadership through the Embedded Approach in Timor-Leste

19 September 2016

This paper provides an overview of selected lessons learned from the ILO’s involvement in fragile Timor-Leste. In particular it focuses on the embedded approach and its significance for the sustained engagement of the ILO in Timor-Leste.

Child labour

Norway funds new ILO project to combat child labour in Lebanon

25 August 2016

A new Norwegian-funded ILO project will work to withdraw hundreds of Lebanese and Syrian children from hazardous working conditions and protect thousands of others from engaging in especially the worst forms of child labour.

Stories from the field

Keeping them home: How improving public employment services helps people find jobs and stay with their families

16 August 2016

In Nepal, the Labour Market Information and Employment Services (LIfE) project, funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), helps to improve access to basic information and services that can help job seekers, in particular youth, make well-informed choices about education, training, and employment.

Our impact, their voice

Refugee crisis: Child Labour in agriculture on the rise in Lebanon

12 July 2016

Host to hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the war in neighbouring Syria, Lebanon has witnessed a rise in child labour in recent years, largely in the hazardous agricultural sector.

Publication

Rebuilding flood affected farmers' communities: Inspirational human stories

30 June 2016

Real life stories of peasant communities from Sindh, Pakistan who endured devastating floods of 2010 and rebuilt their lives with the help of ILO, FAO and UN WOMEN, through a One UN project funded by UN Trust Fund for Human Security.

Our impact, their voices

Helping Syrian refugees formalize their work status through cooperatives

26 June 2016

The ILO is working with agricultural cooperatives to help Syrian refugees obtain work permits during a three-month grace period announced by the government of Jordan, in a further step to improve access of Syrian refugees to the formal labour market.

News

ILO Director-General congratulates Colombia for "historic step" towards peace

24 June 2016

Guy Ryder says that the Havana bilateral and definitive ceasefire agreement to end hostilities and lay down arms will bring opportunities and challenges, including employment, and that the ILO stands ready to assist.