Latest news
June 2015
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Project
Women’s Economic Empowerment project in Somalia
07 June 2015
The project on women economic empowerment is a joint initiative between UN Women and ILO with the support of UN Women and Swedish International Cooperation Agency (SIDA) promotes women’s economic empowerment through enhancing their entrepreneurial skills.
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ILC Radio Round-up
Day 2: A look at the Committee on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
02 June 2015
With two-thirds of the world’s workers employed in SMEs, policies to bolster their success is an ILC priority.
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104th International Labour Conference
Getting it right for small and medium-sized enterprises
02 June 2015
How to support small and medium-sized enterprises through government policies is a focus of debate at this year's International Labour Conference.
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Video
SCORE China Case Studies: Results achieved through SCORE Training on Cleaner Production
02 June 2015
This video shows how two very different Chinese enterprises benefited from the Cleaner Production module of SCORE Training.
April 2015
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Training
Multinational enterprises, development and decent work: the approach of the MNE Declaration
This five-day course will look at how governments, enterprises and the social partners are encouraged to each put policies in place and engage with each other through dialogue to maximize the positive contribution of multinational enterprises to socio economic development and decent work.
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Rana Plaza, two years on
Bangladesh ready-made garment sector, challenges and way forward
23 April 2015
At 8:54 am local time on April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed claiming more than 1,100 lives and leaving many more injured. Over the past two years, the ILO has been working with its local and international partners on several fronts to improve the situation of workers in the Bangladeshi garment industry.
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Publication
SCORE China Case Study: OSH improvements in Tebian Electric Apparatus Stock Co., Ltd.
22 April 2015
This presentation contains a selection of photos taken at Tebian Electric Apparatus Stock Co., Ltd. a manufacturer of cables and electric wires, showing some of the changes they introduced following Module 5 SCORE Training - Safety and Health at Work: A platform for productivity.
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Rana Plaza, two years on
Factory inspector, a challenging but honourable job
22 April 2015
Since the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse there has been a sustained effort to enhance the capacity and efficiency of the Labour Inspectorate. ILO is supporting this process through its Working Conditions in the Ready-Made Garment Sector Programme funded by Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Amongst the newly recruited inspectors trained by ILO is 27-year-old Farzana Islam.
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News
Employers’ organizations work towards improving the enabling environment for sustainable enterprises
21 April 2015
Representatives of employers’ organizations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, met in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 20-21 April 2015 at an ILO Sub-regional conference to discuss the Enabling Environment of Sustainable Enterprises (EESE).
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Rana Plaza, two years on
Rebuilding life after Rana Plaza: Stories of survivors
20 April 2015
Two years after the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh, the ILO has helped many survivors get back on their feet and back to work, two of whom have opened their own successful businesses and are thinking big for the future.