Resources on social protection

  1. Decent Work pledge for Occupied Palestinian Territory

    27 April 2018

    First visit by an ILO Director-General to the Palestinian Territory in two decades aims to consolidate cooperation between the Organization and Palestinian partners.

  2. Cooperatives meeting informal economy workers' child care needs - A Joint ILO and WIEGO Initiative

    25 April 2018

    Cooperatives set up and run by workers in the informal economy are among the solutions in meeting women workers’ care needs, while also helping protect their labour rights. This report complements the ILO's previous studies with cases from Brazil, India, and Guatemala on how informal economy workers’ organizations can mobilize through cooperatives to provide child care services to their members. The case studies highlight diverse forms of child care provision and outline the varied partnerships needed to implement and sustain child care services for informal economy workers.

  3. "Give accident insurance to workers"

    24 April 2018

    Workplace accident insurance should be introduced for workers in all industrial sectors to ensure security, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday

  4. 'We will mourn the dead and struggle for the survivors'

    24 April 2018

    Five years after Rana Plaza Tragedy, there is a lot left to do.

  5. Five years on from Rana Plaza: ‘Increase national capacity instead of foreign dependency’

    23 April 2018

    Trade union leaders and workers rights groups called to make the RMG safety progress a sustainable one by increasing national capacity instead of foreign dependency. They also demanded introduction of injury insurance scheme for workers to ensure proper compensation in case of industrial accidents.

  6. The Real cost of Cheap Shirts

    21 April 2018

    Factory workers in Bangladesh toil for low wages and under precarious conditions to make clothing worn worldwide.

  7. Research Project on "Financial mechanisms for Innovative Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems"

    20 April 2018

    Supported by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social and Solidarity Economy of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, this project aims at fostering a better understanding of the global ecosystems, i.e. the relations and interactions between a number of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) stakeholders favouring SSE, and the financial mechanism that supports and consolidate them.

  8. All Talk and No Action?

    20 April 2018

    Five years ago, over 1,100 garment workers lost their lives and hundreds became permanently disabled. How much has really changed at an institutional level­­? On the fifth anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, we turn the spotlight on the state—how much of its professed commitments to protect our workers has it kept?

  9. ILO GEIP Poster

    17 April 2018

    Printable poster to inform on the GEIP and its goals.

  10. ILO STANDARDS ON EMPLOYMENT INJURY BENEFIT

    17 April 2018