News and statements on labour migration

  1. Global pool of multi-lingual trainers established to make finance work for refugees and host communities around the world

    04 June 2021

    The capacity development of trainers in “Making Finance Work for Refugees and Host communities” aims to develop a pool of trainers to be deployed around the world to teach and technically support financial services providers in expanding their services to refugees’ market segments, which will in turn enable refugees and host communities to access more suitable financial services.

  2. A socio-economic integration strategy to turn migration into a factor for sustainable development

    10 March 2021

    More than 5 million Venezuelans have left their country and 85 percent have moved to other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, generating an unprecedented migration crisis, UNDP and ILO highlighted when presenting the regional strategy.

  3. ILO: Employment policies are key to address the challenge of migration

    24 January 2020

    At the 12th Summit of the Global Forum in Ecuador, ILO stated that decent work deficits are one of the main causes of migratory movements. The ILO Regional Director recalled in his speech that most migration is directly or indirectly related to the world of work.

  4. The IOM and ILO organize a workshop on fair and ethical recruitment of migrant workers

    03 September 2019

    Hosted in Guatemala, the workshop brings together government institutions and entities responsible for statistics and censuses at the national level, as well as experts from IOM and ILO, and employers, workers and civil society organizations.

  5. ILO launches series of regional seminars on Recommendation 205 for workers’ organizations

    21 May 2018

  6. ILO, ECLAC report weakening labour conditions and rising urban unemployment

    11 May 2017

    New ECLAC-ILO report indicates that the increase in average regional unemployment in 2016 was the biggest annual rise in two decades. It also includes an analysis regarding the characteristics of immigrants’ insertion in the world of work.

  7. ILO: Time to improve governance in labour migration in Latin America and the Caribbean

    30 August 2016

    The number of migrant workers is rising quickly. There are migratory corridors in this region where informal and unprotected people circulate. It is urgent to tackle the labour dimension of migration, says the ILO’s Regional Director.