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Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

The Decent Jobs for Youth Knowledge Facility: Learning, sharing, and engaging

Partners of the UN Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth launch knowledge facility, including the ILO toolbox and data finder on youth employment.

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Issue Brief no. 5 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Negotiating for decent working time - a review of practice

This Issue Brief gives an overview of the regulation of working time through collective agreements in different regions of the world and outlines innovative solutions by the bargaining partners. It presents practices from various countries, which...

Fact sheet

The Legal Gap Analysis of Myanmar National Laws and International Standards for Domestic Workers

The nature of domestic work differs from other work. There is often only one employee per employer or workplace. The workplace is a home not a business. Many domestic workers not only work but also live in their employers’ houses making it difficult...

Final knowledge-sharing event of the DW project in Bishkek

On 5 December 2019, the tripartite constituents of the Kyrgyz Republic hosted in Bishkek the final knowledge-sharing event of the project “From the Crisis towards Decent and Safe Jobs, Phase II” funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland...

European Parliament discusses EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement

The ILO participated to an Exchange of views on the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, organized by the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament.

State Secretary-Deputy Minister Andrei Pudov: Russia Is Taking Multi-Faceted Interagency and Interregional Efforts to Develop Social...

Andrei Pudov, State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection, made this statement during the Global Social Protection Week in Geneva, Switzerland.

Portugal marks the ILO centenary with the ratification of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188) and the 1986 Instrument of...

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

End violence and harassment in the world of work

"Violence and harassment constitutes one of the greatest threats to decent work. No more excuses. Let’s work together and make the promise of Convention No. 190 a reality for all," says ILO Director-General.

Labour Inspection

Uzbekistan ratifies the two Governance Conventions on Labour Inspection

Uzbekistan has ratified the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) and the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129)

Labour Inspection

Uzbekistan ratifies the two Governance Conventions on Labour Inspection

Uzbekistan has ratified the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) and the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129).

China-Belgium-ILO seminar: unlocking the potential of women to achieve sustainable development

Revised Vietnamese Labour Code to help everyone gain fair shares of economic growth

The ILO congratulates Viet Nam on the adoption of the revised Labour Code, which is better in line with universal fundamental labour rights.

Digital collections

Digital Collections: First International Labour Conference and Governing Body of the ILO

Discover original documents of the first International Labour Conference and the First Session of the Governing Body of the ILO, which was held in Washington, D.C., from October 29 to November 29, 1919.

Capacity building session for the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on the framework of fundamental principles and rights at work

ILO Country Office for Pakistan, through its European Union (EU) funded project ‘Sustaining Strengthened National Capacities to Improve International Labour Standards (ILS) Compliance and Reporting in Relevant EU Trading Partners’ engages the field...

International Labour Standards

Convention No 1: A landmark for Workers’ Rights

100 years ago the first International Labour Conference adopted the first International Labour Standard – on working time. As the ILO celebrates this landmark moment, ILO Working Time specialist, Jon Messenger, looks back at the history of the...

ILO and Ericsson join forces to enhance labour standards in the Egyptian ICT sector

Ericsson and ILO have officially launched the beginning of the implementation phase of collaboration between the two sides to enhance occupational safety and health and work conditions in Egypt.

International Labour Standards

Malawi renews commitment toward International Labour Standards

Maritime Labour Convention

Sudan ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Sudan is the 95th member State to have ratified this Convention.