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Wilfred Jenks Lecture Series

Laurence R. Helfer: Pushback Against Supervisory Systems: Lessons for the ILO from UN Human Rights Institutions

This lecture offers a wider perspective on the ongoing challenges to the ILO supervisory system. It analyzes the different ways that states and non-state actors have pushed back against treaty monitoring bodies created by UN human rights...

Lebanon’s cherry farmers embrace safer and more sustainable practices through ILO support

The ILO’s BOUZOUR project, funded by Sweden, is helping cherry farmers like Hasan Sharaf and the Ismail family strengthen value chains, improve occupational safety and health and open more inclusive access to global markets.

Fair wage and social dialogue

ILO backs trade unions to strengthen capacity on wage policy in Ethiopia

The International Labour Organization (ILO) supports Ethiopian trade unions in strengthening their technical and institutional capacity to engage in wage policy development.

This is social justice

Dignity and empowerment through salaried employment in South Africa

Langanani Moleya went from being homeless to becoming a salaried manager for an urban regeneration agency in South Africa. Listen to Moleya’s journey from insecurity to dignity and empowerment.

Digitalization in employment policies

Digital technology is reshaping the world of work, creating both opportunities and challenges. The ILO supports the integration of digital transformation into employment policy frameworks by focusing on creating decent work while addressing exiting...

Social protection

Waste collectors, informal economy workers gain ground through social protection

Waste collectors and informal economy workers navigate daily risks and hardships, making social protection an essential lifeline during crises, emergencies and economic shocks in the Philippines.

Multi-Stakeholder Workshops Translate Labour Migration Governance into Advocacy and Storytelling across Three Countries

Across three cities in ten days, policymakers, migrant workers, trade unions and civil society came together to turn BRMM's technical achievements into advocacy and storytelling, capturing the human realities of labour migration before the programme...

Care economy

Domestic workers care for our children; who cares for theirs?

Mukta Akter is a domestic worker living in Azimpur, old Dhaka. She balances her work and motherhood responsibilities with the support of the Azimpur Government Daycare Centre, where she enrolled her children since they were toddlers. Her daughter,...

Transforming the care economy in Türkiye: A path to inclusive and sustainable growth

The UN Joint Programme in Türkiye is making care visible and valuable, turning it into a driver of equality, sustainable development, and inclusive growth.

ILO supports stakeholders in Lebanon’s agri-food sector to adopt responsible business conduct

ILO-supported training, with funding from Sweden, equips agri-food enterprises and institutions with tools to advance responsible business conduct and boost export readiness

Employment promotion

A school reborn in Herat, Afghanistan

No chairs. No tables. No sanitary toilets. No safe drinking water. The ILO’s Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) has transformed a school in three months.

Q&A on the updated Guide to Private Employment Agencies

This article highlights how the updated Guide serves as a resource for regulating and monitoring private employment agencies, helping them operate fairly, transparently, and in line with international labour standards amid today’s rapidly changing...

This is social justice

Balancing work and being a mum boost equality and social justice in Moldova

Holding a job at a mobile network operator and being a mum of two young daughters was hard for Natalia Cebanu. Cebanu, from Moldova, tells us how getting childcare support meant more freedom and equal opportunities for working women like her.

Child labour

From fields to futures: The Ugandan women building a brighter tomorrow

Women participating in the ACCEL Africa project in Uganda have transformed their village by combining savings, education and community care to combat child labour and promote brighter futures for their children.

Impact story

Poultry that connects: Inside a Farmer Service Centre in Kenya

In Kakuma, a Farmer Service Centre run by brooder Charles Lukudu — a refugee from South Sudan — is transforming poultry farming into a bridge between refugee and host communities. With support from ILO PROSPECTS and Sustainable Approaches for...

Senegal and ILO partner to promote decent jobs through local infrastructure

The new agreement will boost decent employment opportunities, especially for youth and women, by integrating labour-intensive public works into local development projects.

Tanzania Advances Ratification Process for Key ILO Labour Migration Conventions

Tanzania took a structured look at where its laws and practices stand against two foundational ILO conventions on migrant worker protection, with tripartite partners in Morogoro mapping the gaps and laying out a concrete path toward ratification.

Strengthening cooperatives to combat child labor: Start.COOP adapted to the cotton and gold mining sectors in Mali

In Mali, the ILO’s ACCEL Africa project adapted the Start.COOP tool to strengthen the governance, management, and professionalization of cotton and artisanal gold mining cooperatives. This local adaptation, developed with national trainers and...

Pro-employment macroeconomic policies

Enterprise development and artificial intelligence

From farm to jam: A dragon fruit entrepreneur’s sweet digital leap

A Filipino farmer’s journey from fresh produce to dragon fruit jam shows how ILO’s training in the Philippines is transforming micro, small and medium-sized enterprises through artificial intelligence and digital skills.