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Sewing, a new path for Aminata

This is the story of Coulibaly Aminata, 18, who recounts how sewing training supported by the ILO's ACCEL Africa project helped her overcome a difficult period in her childhood and build a professional future in Côte d'Ivoire. Discover her journey...

Platform economy

Can platform work be made more decent?

The expansion of the platform economy demands urgent, coordinated policy action by constituents to ensure that new forms of work deliver decent work outcomes.

Fourth Labour Migration Advisory Group meeting reinforces sustainable Labour Migration Governance in East and Horn of Africa

Shifting toward long-term ownership, institutional integration, and the development of a clear sustainability roadmap for labour migration governance in the region.

Addressing the impacts of extreme heat through social protection

International stakeholders at the Global Labour Market Conference (GLMC) in Riyadh explored how social protection can help protect workers, including migrant workers across the GCC-South Asia corridor, from the growing impacts of extreme heat.

South Sudan Trade Unions Strengthen Action on Migrant Worker Rights

Embedding migrant worker protection within national trade union structures in South Sudan

Questions and Answers

From papers to people: How employment policies shape lives and jobs

Dorothea Schmidt, Chief, ILO’s Employment Policy, Labour Market and Youth (EMPLAB) branch, explains how well-designed employment policies can turn the promise of decent work into lived reality. She reflects on the role of social dialogue,...

Voices of Action - Child labour

From hazardous work to school: How the Philippines is breaking the child labour cycle

In Bangsamoro's shadow of dump sites, children swap hazardous scavenging for education and family mushroom farms ahead of the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, paving paths to brighter futures. ​

ILO Voices | Digital skills for youth

Digital skills revived my mother’s food business and our family bond

Rafael Meza is a student from Colombia, one of more than 60,000 young people who are benefitting from the ILO-supported SENATIC project. Through the programme, he is learning digital marketing skills that are helping him boost his mother’s food...

Tanzania Charts Path Forward for Labour Migration Governance in Dodoma

Fifth National Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on Labour Migration in Dodoma, Tanzania to review progress, address implementation challenges, and promote the programme’s exit strategy for long-term impact.

Social protection

From protection to empowerment: Social security and inclusion of persons with disabilities

From being denied access to school as a blind child to standing before policymakers as a university student, Vu Thi Hai Anh’s journey shows how inclusive social protection can turn exclusion into empowerment when barriers are removed.

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From ideas to impact: How ILO training series is transforming the businesses of entrepreneurs in Jordan

Shireen, Hanin, and Linka share how a business and entrepreneurship course helped them turn their visions into successful ventures.

Wilfred Jenks Lecture Series

Guy Fiti Sinclair: The law of inter-organizational relations, a view from the ILO

This lecture focusses on the question of relations between international organizations (IOs), or inter-organizational relations, and in particular the role of law in regulating or shaping those relations. The overall goal of the lecture is to argue...

PROSPECTS Impact

ILO-supported skill training creates pathways to decent work for refugees in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State, where refugees often face limited access to formal employment, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is strengthening pathways to decent work and self-reliance through targeted, market-driven skills...

Productivity ecosystems for decent work

ILO welcomes Swiss mission, highlighting progress on productivity and decent work in Viet Nam

High-level delegation of Swiss Government, employers and workers reviews ILO-supported initiatives linking productivity growth with improved working conditions.

Ethiopia Strengthens Fair Recruitment Oversight through the Migrant Recruitment Advisor (MRA) Platform

Targeted IT training and stakeholder consultations lay the foundation for embedding the Migrant Recruitment Advisor within Ethiopia’s labour migration governance system.

Aligning Data, Skills, Protection and Recruitment Governance under a Coordinated National Framework in Ethiopia

This article highlights the outcomes of the National Project Co-Creation and Co-Design Workshop held in Bishoftu in January 2026 under the EU–ILO Action. It outlines how federal and regional institutions, social partners and technical stakeholders...

Decent work and women’s economic empowerment

From displacement to decent work: Women rebuild roads and their futures in Somalia

With ILO support, displaced and host community women in Baidoa in southwest of Somalia are training as stone cobblers, earning income and rebuilding vital roads. The project promotes decent work, gender equality, and hope for families affected by...

Adapting Traditional Craft to Modern Market Demand

"My biggest problem was not skills or materials, but the market. I could make products, but I did not know how to reach buyers or get fair prices,” said Nathan Mugote.

ILO/China Partnership Programme

From skills to growth: Improving a family business in a changing economy

Skills training helps a young Lao entrepreneur modernize his family business and build a more secure future.

A Return, a Loan, and a Fresh Start

“I started my business with only one hundred thousand shillings, half from my savings and the other half borrowed from a friend,” she said.