News room

September 2008

  1. Wal-Mart boycotts Uzbek cotton

    30 September 2008

    Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said on Tuesday it was asking its suppliers to stop using cotton from Uzbekistan, joining a boycott by global brands over its use of forced child labour during the cotton harvest.

  2. Kazakhstan’s oil industry accounts for the highest OSH expenditures

    10 September 2008

    Kazakhstan’s oil industry accounts for the highest expenditures on occupational safety and health (OSH), Kazakh Labour and Social Welfare Minister Berdibek Saparbayev told the forum Social Responsibility of Business 2008 held in Almaty on September 10.

August 2008

  1. A contest of social projects to assist children in Kyrgyzstan

    13 August 2008

  2. The National Workshop on the Effective Governance of Labour Migration in Tajikistan – Migration and Development took place in Dushanbe

    06 August 2008

    The workshop was organized by the International Labour Organization within the framework of “Towards Sustainable Partnerships for the Effective Governance of Labour Migration in the Russian Federation, the Caucasus and Central Asia” project funded by the European Union.

July 2008

  1. National Workshop on the Effective Governance of Labour Migration in Armenia

    17 July 2008

    Today, National Workshop on the Effective Governance of Labour Migration in Armenia took place in Marriott Armenia Hotel. The workshop was organized by the International Labour Organization within the framework of Towards Sustainable Partnerships for the Effective Governance of Labour Migration project.

  2. First pilot pre-migration training

    02 July 2008

    The first pilot pre-migration training within the framework of the EU-funded ILO/OSCE/ICMPD regional project Development of a Comprehensive Anti-Trafficking Response in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia took place in Tbilisi on 2 July.

June 2008

  1. World Day Against Child Labour 2008. ILO says education is the “right response” to child labour

    11 June 2008

    Citing data indicating that many of the estimated 75 million children lacking primary schooling start working at an early age, the International Labour Office (ILO) said today that education was critical to breaking the cycle of child labour and poverty as well as eradicating child labour in its worst forms by 2016.

May 2008

  1. ILO/OSCE/ICMPD workshop to support Georgian government’s anti-trafficking efforts

    29 May 2008

    On May 29, the ILO in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Georgia and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) organized Tbilisi’s workshop to help Georgia’s government prepare a new national action plan to combat trafficking in human beings in the country for 2009-2010.

  2. Bishkek hosts 1st congress of Kyrgyz Confederation of Employers

    26 May 2008

  3. Next steps to counteract HIV/AIDS in the world of work: Round table in Dushanbe

    16 May 2008

    Dushanbe hosted a Round Table discussion between the ILO tripartite constituents and with the participation of UNAIDS, international organizations, National AIDS Center in order to identify next steps in counteracting HIV/AIDS in the world of work in Tajikistan.