Events and training on labour migration

May 2018

  1. ILO Sri Lanka holds the National Consultation on labour migration and fair recruitment.

    31 May 2018

    As part of the ILO’s Fair Recruitment Initiative, the EU-funded “Global Action to Improve the Recruitment Framework of Labour Migration”, also known as REFRAME project organized a stakeholder consultation on labour migration and fair recruitment on 31st May, 2018 at the Movenpick Hotel, Colombo.

  2. ILO facilitates stakeholder consultation on labour migration and fair recruitment

    31 May 2018

    As part of the ILO’s Fair Recruitment Initiative, the EU-funded “Global Action to Improve the Recruitment Framework of Labour Migration” ( REFRAME) project is organizing a stakeholder consultation on labour migration and fair recruitment.

  3. Safe & Fair: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN region

    24 - 25 May 2018

    The Consultative Dialogue aims to share information, identify priority interventions, validate plans, and explore future cooperation among key stakeholders and social partners in Indonesia.

  4. Safe and Fair: Consultative Dialogue on Realizing Women Migrant Workers’ Rights and Opportunities in the ASEAN Region

    21 - 22 May 2018

    A consultative dialogue was held to discuss a new project focused on the rights of women migrant workers in the ASEAN Region.

  5. New guide helps migrants find work on return to Bangladesh

    14 May 2018

    A new guidebook developed with support of International Labour Organization will help migrant workers returning to Bangladesh reintegrate into the labour market

  6. Global Forum on Migration and Development: Thematic workshop on skills and labour migration

    3 May 2018

    As part of the Global Forum on Migration and Development contribution to the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration (GCM), a thematic workshop on skills and labour migration, will be held on 3 May.

April 2018

  1. Technical consultation on recruitment costs borne by migrant workers

    25 - 27 April 2018

    This technical consultation brings together knowledge and experiences of national statistical offices in South Asia, research institutions, statistical experts, implementers of recruitment and migration cost surveys and the ILO to discuss ways of measuring recruitment costs that is borne by migrant workers.

  2. ILO Facilitates stakeholder consultation to revise law on foreign employment

    23 April 2018

    ILO supported the Ministry of Telecommunications, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment to facilitate a consultation with key stakeholders of the labour migration to revise the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) Act of 1985.

March 2018

  1. Tripartite-plus Consultation on Female Labour Migration

    29 March 2018

    To identify reasons for low Female Labour Migration in Pakistan, ILO-Islamabad has initiated a national study under its EU-funded REFRAME Project and organized a Tripartite Consultation to discuss the matter in detail and identify avenues for improvement.

  2. Launch of How Immigrant Contribute to Côte d'Ivoire's Economy in Abidjan (ECLM project)

    29 March 2018

    An event was held in Abidjan on 29 March 2018 to launch the report, How Immigrants Contribute to Côte d'Ivoire's Economy. The report was produced in the context of the project "Assessing the economic contribution of labour migration in developing countries as countries of destination" (ECLM). The agenda for this event will be available soon.