News on International Labour Standards

Rail unions focus on organising and promoting ILO conventions

Around 40 leaders from railway unions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia met with ILO experts and senior ITF representatives in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 September to 1 October to discuss organising and the promotion of ILO conventions throughout the...

Social dialogue and industrial relations in Morocco: Public-Private Partnership

The OCP Group (Office Chérifien des Phosphates) is the largest company in the country. In 2010, products of phosphates and their derivatives accounted for nearly a quarter of Moroccan exports by value, approximately 3.5 per cent of GDP. Morocco’s...

Centre of excellence for Bangladeshi apparel workers - Certified training within the national skills development framework: Public-Private...

The Centre of Excellence for the Bangladesh Apparel Industries (CEBAI) is a replicable model of an industry-driven training and support service that aims to meet the sector’s labour force needs. The initiative seeks to increase both the...

Improving productivity and competitiveness through labour law compliance in Pakistan's textile sector: Public-Private Partnership

Realising the economic and employment implications of non-compliance for Pakistan, the national Government has developed an International Labour Standard (ILS) Compliance and Reporting Programme to improve workplace practices in the textile industry...

Decent Work: An Alliance for the Future - South-South and Triangular Cooperation in ILO public-private partnerships

As a growing form of partnership, South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) is playing an increasingly important role in the ILO’s public-private partnerships. Southern partners, with similar experience in development, bring particularly...

Decent Work: An Alliance for the Future - Public-private partnerships with universities, knowledge and research centres

The International Labour Organization is increasingly seen as the global centre for technical expertise and as an authority in the areas of labour statistics, research, analysis and policy advice. Knowledge-related publicprivate partnerships play an...

Midterm evaluation summary

Improving working conditions in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh

The project was designed to create a safe and compliant ready-made garment sector in which workers and employers were aware of their rights and responsibilities concerning occupational safety and health, labour inspections and building, fire and...

Building skills for senior Papua New Guinea OSH inspectors

A training programme was developed in response to an assessment of current and future needs to implement legislative responsibilities and provide a platform for building the skills of the Inspectorate

Implementation of the OSH Bill - Papua New Guinea

The Department of Labour and Industrial Relations, with technical support from the Fiji Government has been developing an OSH Bill to substantially update the existing legal framework and provide for improved compliance with International Labour...

Child labour

Cuba ratifies the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

Cuba is the 180th ILO member State to ratify this instrument, which calls for the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour

ILO’s tripartite partners commit to improving labour standards and promotion of decent work in Punjab province

The Government of Punjab restated its commitment to fast track the existing labour inspection reform process. Workers and Employers highlighted ILO’s role in expanding the coverage of labour legislation to the informal sector including domestic...

Indonesia examines labour inspection in fishing

Recent years have seen both fishing itself and the market for capture fishery becoming increasingly globalized. Technology in the fishing industry has been changing rapidly as well, often transforming the way that fishing is carried out. Difficult...

Zimbabwe Labour Court Judges sensitised on International Labour Standards

The ILO Country Office for Zimbabwe and the International Labour Standards Department in Geneva organized a sensitisation course for Labour Court Judges in Zimbabwe on international labour standards from 1-4 September 2015 in Nyanga.

ILO Director-General visits Turkey

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder’s visit marks a first highest level visit by an ILO Director-General to Ankara after 22 years

Occupational Safety and Health

Indonesia ratifies the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187)

Convention No. 187 is one of the ILO’s essential instruments in safety and health at the workplace

Labour standards

New Package of Labour and Occupational Safety and Health Law Passed in Kiribati

New labour legislation passed in Kiribati in August has significantly raised the profile of international labour standards and made major changes to the governance of labour relations in the country.

Strengthening Labour Inspection System for Promoting Labour Standards and Ensuring Workplace Compliance in Pakistan (Project fact sheet)

The project fact sheet outlines the project objectives, outcomes, major activities and project related key information. The fact sheet glanced over this nationwide project attempts to help readers in having a quick grasp of essential elements that...

Международный день молодежи

Stand up for workers rights, forum of trade unionists urges

The end of summer proved to be one of the busiest periods in the calendar of trade unions of the Siberian Federal District. On 26 August in Gorno-Altaisk a district conference on “Promotion of social dialogue at federal district level" was organized...

Labour Law Reforms, Termination of Employment, Productivity and Investment, Flexibility, Social Dialogue and the Economy

Nepal: Rights, quake rehab plan are musts for peace and development

On the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, ILO News talked to Dr Mukta Singh Lama, an indigenous person from Nepal, about the post-earthquake situation and the impact of ILO Convention 169 on important rights of...