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Media Professionals in Africa Equipped for Improved Reporting on Labour Migration

Promoting accurate, balanced, and gender-sensitive coverage of labour migration in Africa while strengthening regional collaboration.

ILOSTAT blog

Measuring progress on labour rights

Ghana celebrates the world day for safety and health at work 2025

Ghana commemorates the 2025 World Day for Safety and Health at Work with national and community events focused on emerging technologies, AI, and workplace safety. Supported by the ILO’s ACCEL Africa Project, the country calls for stronger OSH...

World Day for Safety and Health

Eswatini’s national workplace wellness policy sets a regional benchmark for worker wellbeing

ILO Country Office for Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and South Africa welcomes Eswatini’s bold step towards healthier, safer, and more inclusive workplaces

ILOSTAT blog

The right to occupational safety and health: Still unrealized

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Improving Safety and Health for Tea Workers in Nepal

Thanks to safety and health training provided through the ILO/Japan project “Safety + Health for All Workers in South Asia,” Kamala Bhujel, a tea worker in Jhapa, Nepal, has seen improvements in her working conditions. The project, part of the ILO’s...

Occupational Safety and Health

From struggles to safety: Transforming tea garden work in Nepal

From facing daily risks to embracing safer practices, tea garden workers in Nepal are redefining how quality tea is grown- with safety, health, and dignity through ILO Nepal's Occupational Safety and Health training.

Ethiopia Strengthens Diplomatic Capacity on Labour Migration

The ILO BRMM and JLMP Programmes, in partnership with the Institute of Foreign Affairs, trained 25 Ethiopian diplomats on international labour migration and legal frameworks from 22–23 April 2025. The workshop strengthened diplomats’ capacity to...

Breaking barriers: How Fabia Benedito’s dream is changing lives in Mozambique

30-year-old Fabia Benedito’s journey is one of resilience, determination, and hope. In Nacala Port District of Nampula province, Ontupaia area, where opportunities for women can be scarce, she refused to let obstacles define her future. Through the...

Young innovator transforms Mozambique with cyclone-proof bricks

In the cyclone-hit communities of Mozambique, survival often demands innovation, resilience, and hope. For 30-year-old Ramane Ramos Jorge, these qualities have been at the heart of his extraordinary journey. Supported by the International Labour...

Empowering youth through resilience

Building futures through skills training at Instituto Polivalente de Marrere (IPOMA)

In the shadow of violence and turmoil, hope blossoms in unlikely places. At the Instituto Polivalente de Marrere in Mozambique, a powerful transformation is underway. Through the support of the International Labour Organization’s; Government of...

Tanzania Validates Revised PDO Manual and Domestic Worker Curriculum

Tanzania has strengthened its labour migration governance by validating a revised pre-departure orientation manual and competency-based domestic worker curriculum. Supported by the ILO, the initiative follows a national gap analysis and recent...

Aster Dosha’s Story of Courage and Entrepreneurship

A 33-year-old woman from Addis Ababa changed adversity into opportunity after years of hardship as a migrant domestic worker in the Gulf and Lebanon.

Empowering farmers and fighting child labour through digital innovation: MobiPay and ACCEL Africa

ACCEL Africa partners with MobiPay to eliminate child labour in Uganda’s coffee and tea sectors by boosting rural incomes through smart farming, financial inclusion, and digital tools for smallholder farmers.

Uganda signs third decent work country programme

Uganda signs its Third Decent Work Country Programme (2024/25–2029/30), reinforcing its commitment to social justice, decent employment, and the elimination of child labour and human trafficking. The official launch was on the Labour Day, 1 May 2025.

Labour Migration in Africa

Pan-African course strengthens capacities for effective labour migration governance

The ILO in collaboration with the ITC-ILO organized the capacity building to promote rights-based and gender-responsive migration governance in Africa.

A young woman’s journey into digital entrepreneurship and empowerment thanks to SENATIC and the ILO

From Maicao, in the heart of Colombia’s Caribbean region, Duarenis Yiseth González proves that passion, talent and education can open powerful paths.

Technology with purpose: a young man supporting his mother’s business and shaping his life project through SENATIC and the ILO

At just 17 years of age, Rafael Alfonso Meza Guerra discovered in technology a way to reconnect with his past, support his mother, and build a future filled with purpose thanks to his training under the SENATIC project an alliance between the...

African Labour Attachés in the Gulf Strengthen Capacity to Protect Migrant Workers

African Labour Attachés from across the Gulf received training in Doha to strengthen their capacity to protect migrant workers, promote fair recruitment, and support workers, especially women, in accessing rights and remedies.

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From isolation to empowerment: Mama Abu and the rise of the Tuna Besty Group

The sea invites the people of Air Panas sub-village to make a living. The fortunes of the fisheries sector may have ups and downs, but the fisherwomen there have proven their resilience in managing risks and processing marine products for a living.