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Q&A on the Global Employment Policy Review 2025

This interview explores how the Global Employment Policy Review (GEPR) can help us better understand employment responsive policies and the relationship between impact assessments, diagnostics, and dialogue for better policymaking.

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Uzbekistan advances maternity protection and family-friendly policies

Moving toward equal care leave rights for women and men is an essential step to value unpaid care work and share care responsibilities more equally.

PROSPECTS podcast - Refugees at Work

Innovating refugee response: How the Netherlands built the PROSPECTS Partnership

In this episode, Ana Uzelac, Senior Policy Officer at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, discusses the origins and evolution of the PROSPECTS partnership. She highlights how innovative donor approaches can strengthen the...

Supply chains - International labour standards

World’s longest-running strike resolved through collective bargaining and ILS

Fiji’s Vatukoula gold mine dispute ends after 30+ years through collective bargaining and ILS

Supply chains - Research, knowledge and practical tools

Improved working conditions and formalization of workplaces through strategic compliance

Strategic compliance in Indonesia’s palm oil sector improves worker protection and formalization

Supply chains - Policy coherence

Protecting garment workers through employment injury insurance

Bangladesh expands social protection for garment workers through employment injury insurance

ILO Voices | Care economy

Our community now sees the value of care work

Yoraima Cristina Navarro Izquierdo is an Arhuaco leader and founder of Josa Peace Builders, an association of women weavers in Colombia. An ILO project has provided training on economic autonomy and recognizing care work, and is helping Yoraima and...

Supply chains - Development cooperation

Safer and healthier tea farms provide greater market access

Improving safety and market access through better labour practices in Nepal’s tea sector

PROSPECTS podcast

Young, displaced & determined: Refugee voices on rights to and at work

This special episode of the PROSPECTS podcast series features young refugee leaders sharing their perspectives on the right to work and the barriers they face to economic inclusion. Hasan Almatroud from Jordan and Shadya Abduljabbar from Ethiopia...

Guinea validates national strategy to promote labour-intensive infrastructure development

Developed with ILO technical support, the initiative aims to scale up labour-based infrastructure works as a driver of decent job creation and inclusive growth.

Supply chains - Enabling rights

Fairer garment sector through collective bargaining

Collective bargaining strengthens worker rights and fair wages in Cambodia’s garment sector

Supply chains - Development cooperation

Sustainable seafood through Good Labour Practices and workers representation

Strengthening labour rights and sustainability in Thailand’s seafood supply chain.

Fifth Technical Working Group Reviews Labour Migration Priorities and Exit Planning in South Sudan

During South Sudan's fifth Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on labour migration governance in Juba participants reviewed national developments in labour migration governance, achievements under the BRMM programme, and areas requiring further...

Masoyise Health Programme unveils bold 2025 - 2030 Strategy at the 12th SA-AIDS Conference

Supply chains - Multinational enterprises

Japan's electronics industry embraces responsible business conduct

Partnership model in Japan's electronics industry advances worker rights and sustainable procurement

South Sudan Strengthens Labour and Migration Statistics through Capacity-Building Workshop

Enhancing the skills of the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and other national stakeholders in producing labour and labour migration statistics in line with international standards.

ILO joins African Technical Universities and Polytechnics in promoting youth engagement in skills development

The International Labour Organization joined the 2025 ATUPA Conference in Durban to promote inclusive, youth-led approaches to skills development and sustainable TVET systems across Africa.

Farm-to-market model boosts livelihoods of Lebanese farmers

The ILO and Lebanon’s QOOT agri-food network are strengthening livelihoods and supporting communities through contract farming arrangements that set clear terms on price, quality and delivery.

PROSPECTS podcast - Refugees at Work

The history of the ILO’s refugee engagement

In the second episode, we trace the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) historical engagement with refugee issues — from the post–World War I Russian refugee crisis to today’s debates on migration, labour, and displacement. Researcher and...

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Francesco D’Ovidio