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Meta-analysis of the effects of interventions on child labour

The meta-analysis included a comprehensive set of interventions to provide a quantitative assessment of their impact on child labour.

Understanding informality and child labour in sub-Saharan Africa

This study examines the interrelationship of child labour and informality in 22 sub-Saharan countries.

Research Paper No.18

Examining persistent labour force transitions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Examining persistent labour force transitions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from four developing countries

Action Plan/Roadmap To Foster National Conditions For Women’s Entrepreneurship Development And Enterprise Formalization In Nigeria

Promoting Social Justice in the Global South: Global and regional South-South Cooperation good practices

ILO Publications Catalogue 2024

Women and the World of Work in Uzbekistan. Towards Gender Equality and Decent Work for All. 2nd edition updated in 2023

This is the second edition of the report which was updated in 2023 with the most available data. This report responds to the need for a comprehensive analysis of the position of women in the world of work of Uzbekistan. It aims to inform policy,...

Statistical Bulletin of Social Protection Indicators in Jordan: 2020-2021

The first Statistical Bulletin of Social Protection Indicators in Jordan is an important first step towards building a comprehensive database of the social protection system in Jordan, to be updated and released on annual basis in the coming years.

Understanding and addressing child labour across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus

Crises driven by armed conflict, disaster and outbreaks of disease are affecting growing numbers of children worldwide, increasing the risk of child labour and of other human rights violations. The numbers are staggering. According to the United...

OSH

Occupational safety and health in skills training – Myanmar (student’s handbook)

The training package is developed under the ILO Safety + Health for All (SHFA) in Myanmar project, aiming to build a preventative safety and health culture by mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education. It supports TVET and skills...

OSH

Occupational safety and health in skills training – Myanmar (trainer’s manual)

The training package is developed under the ILO Safety + Health for All (SHFA) in Myanmar project, aiming to build a preventative safety and health culture by mainstreaming occupational safety and health into education. It supports TVET and skills...

Occupational Safety and Health Series 75 - Review report on laws and practice related to human factors/ergonomics and manual handling at...

Review report on laws and practice related to human factors

Advancing Gender Equality and Decent Work in Uzbekistan. A Compendium of the Conference: Pathways to gender equality and decent work in...

ILO, Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, has compiled a Compendium of Country Cases and Policy Recommendations based on the high-level Conference Pathways to gender equality and decent work in...

United Nations-ILO Cooperation

Fact-sheet, December 2023

Regulation of working times, driving times and rest periods for commercial vehicle drivers: a comparative study

This report contributes to filling an information gap by providing a comparative view of the regulation of working times and driving times in the road transport sector. Through detailed research, it explores the various legislations and regulations...

Executive Summary

A new social contract: achieving social justice in an era of accelerating change (Executive Summary)

International Journal of Labour Research

Reflections on the new social contract

This paper describes the pressures imposed on people and the planet by climate change, global conflict and the complex issues of inequality generated by past economic models. On the labour front, technological development and increasing automation...

International Journal of Labour Research

Why a new social contract is urgent?

This article summarizes key aspects of the new social contract adopted by the ITUC 5th World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2022. The world needs the new social contract to replace the failing, inequitable and unsustainable economic...

International Journal of Labour Research

The world of work and the new social contract

The social contract of the 1940s and 1950s followed the principle that citizens contributed to the common good – whether economically, socially or culturally – on the assumption that the state would ensure a minimum standard of living, provision of...