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Dedicated to growing a resilient future for the next generation

Alex Barnett, County Judge/ Executive and Hemp Farmer, Harrison County, Cynthiana, Kentucky

Drawn to the magic and majesty that lives in the world

Henry Lipkis Mardi Gras Float Designer and Muralist, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Sowing seeds of change

It takes thick skin and hard work to succeed as a woman farmer in Sri Lanka. From cultivating her backyard to breaking norms, Raasarathinam Arulrahini shares her journey.

Emerging Insight: The best of 2021

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Focusing on workplace cooperation and continuous improvement leads to enhanced productivity gains, worker-manager communication and safety...

Thanks to ILO SCORE Training’s emphasis on workplace cooperation and continuous improvement, a leading manufacturing company in China adopted new strategies to actively engage workers and managers to improve workplace communication, upgrade...

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Renewed attention to health and safety risks and quality assurance procedures during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis leads to profitable...

ILO SCORE Training’s focus on continuous improvement sets a Tunisian manufacturing company on a path to improved safety and sanitation protocols, upgraded production systems and practices, and most importantly well-established worker-manager...

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Vaccines for garment workers to end the transmission of COVID-19 at workplace

The ILO’s Better Work programme and the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) join forces to provide more than 21 thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Indonesia’s garment industry in Semarang, Central Java.

Child and forced labour

Burkina cotton producers adopt a strategic plan against child labour with the support of the CLEAR Cotton project

The National Union of Cotton Producers' Cooperative Societies of Burkina Faso (SCOOP-UNPCB) is involved in the fight against child and forced labour. Meeting from the 2nd to the 3rd December 2021 in Bobo Dioulasso, the elected representatives and...

Ensuring art thrives by creatively meeting challenges

Kim Larson- Co-owner& Director, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, California

Responsible Enterprises: Innovative Pathways to Child Labour Elimination

From 18 to 29 October 2021, fourty representatives among Governments, employers’ organizations, businesses, and workers’ organizations from Mali and Côte d’Ivoire engaged in a dialogue and capacity building training to discuss and learn about...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Paul Hazen, the Executive Director of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with cooperative and wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) policy makers, researchers and practitioners from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during...

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Reviving Indonesia’s local tourism industry with community ecotourism

The ILO’s ecotourism training, as part of the UN joint programme, helps local tourism in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to rise in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Valuing what comes from deep within the earth

David Levison, Owner, Jeweler and Gemologist, Levison’s Jewelers and Gemological Laboratory Service, Miami, Florida

Everyone is your boss when you run a business

Charles Booe – Owner, Rebecca Ruth Candy – Frankfort, Kentucky

Capacity Building of Women workers to take up seniors leadership positions through the Women Leadership Development Program

Partnering for sustainable goals

David Bissell, President and CEO of Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC), Mark Washington AES Kauai, Hawaii

The delicate balance of roles at home and work

Estefania Villadiego – Disney World theme park worker, and member of Local 362 Unite Here! Union, Orlando, Florida

Interview

Vocational Teachers Training Institute to ensure quality teaching and learning system in Bangladesh

Engr. Md. Zinder Ali, Principal, VTTI talks about how VTTI is transforming itself as a centre for skills excellence to ensure the quality of technical education in Bangladesh with the support from ILO's EU Funded Skills 21 project.

ILO promotes productivity on Lebanon farms through modern greenhouse initiative

The ILO is piloting an initiative to test the impact of modern greenhouses on productivity and working conditions on selected farms in Lebanon, which have been affected by the financial and economic crisis in the country.

Responsible Enterprises: Innovative Pathways to Child Labour Elimination

Participants were introduced to the principles of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) and its comprehensive approach to tackle child labour including aspects related to...