News and statements on labour migration

  1. E-formalization: A Korean success story

    25 March 2022

    An ILO report Digital solutions and formalization: E-formalization case study on the Republic of Korea highlights the role digitalization has played in Korea’s formalization success story and provides a series of valuable experiences for other countries in the region.

  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. A time for collaboration and partnerships for building more inclusive, resilient and peaceful societies amid the COVID-19 crisis

    02 October 2020

  4. The ILO presents the importance of quality employment at the European Investment Bank Board Seminar with Civil Society

    18 February 2020

    Summary of the statement by the ILO at the European Investment Bank (EIB) Board of Directors Seminar with Civil Society 2020 during a session on “supporting development through quality employment”

  5. The Gambia: ILO’s EIIP project participants obtain a contract from the Government

    04 February 2020

    Community Road Development and Maintenance (CODEM), an enterprise established through the ILO project, has successfully secured its first contract from a municipal council to rehabilitate a drainage system in the city centre, after the project completion

  6. Success is sweet for “Determined Women” from Jordan and Syria

    11 July 2019

    A group of Syrian and Jordanian women who received ILO support to set up a joint business venture producing and selling sweets and other foods, have found success.

  7. Madagascar takes a leading role in the “One for All” Centenary ratification campaign by ratifying six ILO Conventions

    12 June 2019

  8. Japan to support youth employment opportunities for refugees and host community in Mauritania

    11 April 2019

    The project aims at promoting economic self-sufficiency of refugees and peaceful coexistence with host communities through the development of employability schemes and decent jobs in infrastructure construction works.

  9. Working together in Lebanon

    12 December 2018

    Women and men, Syrian refugees and host communities work alongside each other building an irrigation channel as part of an ILO project in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.

  10. Apprenticeship scheme offers Jordanian and Syrian women chance to sell to IKEA

    08 November 2018

    A new ILO-supported sewing and embroidery apprenticeship programme in Jordan aims to boost employment and livelihood opportunities for vulnerable Jordanian and Syrian women.