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Implementation over intention: Translating global momentum into local action for Türkiye’s children

Tanzania Launches First Migrant Resource Centre to Protect and Empower Migrant Workers

Strengthening protection and support for migrant workers in Tanzania through the launch of the country’s first Migrant Resource Centre, providing accessible services on safe migration, fair recruitment, and reintegration

Tanzania Journalists Capacity Strengthened to Promote Safe and Fair Labour Migration Reporting

Strengthening responsible, accurate, and evidence based reporting on labour migration in Tanzania while fostering closer collaboration between the media, government, social partners, and the ILO on safe and fair migration issues.

Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)

Fifteen years of advancing decent work for domestic workers in India

Reflecting the ILO’s engagement in India since the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention.

Podcast

From Marrakech to the post-2030 agenda: A new global target on child labour

As the world falls short of its 2025 target to end child labour, this podcast explores what comes next. Representatives of workers, employers and the ILO discuss how to keep child labour high on the global agenda beyond 2030 and what a new global...

Op-ed

Is every child working on the street a victim of child labour?

Tendy Gunawan, ILO Rural Development TVET Officer in Timor-Leste, highlights a question that is often asked whenever people see children selling snacks, tissues or other items on the streets of Dili. This opinion editorial was published by Tatoli,...

Migrant domestic workers

From tears to hope for migrant domestic workers

After experiencing abuse, a former migrant domestic worker has turned her pain into purpose, dedicating her life as a Migrant Desk Officer to helping Overseas Filipino Workers and their families in the Philippines.

Digital skills

Digital construction skills for a better future of work

As the construction industry embraces digital transformation, the International Labour Organization and the Government of the Republic of Korea are helping young Filipinos gain the skills needed to thrive in a more technology-driven future.

When distant crises hit close to home: Workers and enterprises in Asia and the Pacific feel the effects

Podcast

Good jobs, strong businesses: productivity and responsible business conduct

With uneven growth and slowing productivity in many regions, can growth still be inclusive, sustainable and create decent jobs? This discussion looks at how responsible business practices shape firms, treatment of workers and the wider economy.

Institutionalising Overseas Employment Training at Assela TVET College

Strengthening overseas employment training in Ethiopia by enhancing Assela TVET College’s capacity, improving access for migrant workers, especially women, and demonstrating how institutional investment and income generation can support sustainable...

Dignity at work, inside every home: Unionising Bihar’s domestic workers

Domestic workers in Bihar, supported by the ILO’s PRS Project funded by Japan, have organized and advocated for better working conditions. In this interview, Chandra Prakash Singh, National Vice-President of the Indian National Trade Union Congress...

Story of change

Fear disappears when we are not alone: Komal Devi’s journey of empowerment

Supported by the ILO and the Government of Japan, domestic workers in India’s Bihar State are organizing to strengthen their rights, representation and social protection.

Business steps forward in national HIV and TB response

The private sector is strengthening workplace action on HIV and TB, reinforcing the role of employers in protecting workers' health, boosting productivity, and building more resilient workplaces.

Strengthening social dialogue and collective bargaining in Lesotho’s health sector

Strengthening negotiation skills and social dialogue capacity, the workshop marked an important step towards institutionalising collective bargaining and fostering more collaborative and effective labour relations in Lesotho’s health sector.

East and Horn of Africa Labour Attachés Strengthen Capacity to Advance Rights-Based Labour Migration Agreements

Strengthening the capacity of Labour Attachés and Consular Officials from the East and Horn of Africa to negotiate, implement, and monitor rights based bilateral labour migration agreements and better protect migrant workers in Gulf destination...

In Cameroon, road rehabilitation is opening pathways to work and services

Through the ILO Employment-Intensive Investment Programme, young women and men are gaining paid work and practical skills while helping improve a key community road in Cameroon's North-West Region.

Podcast

The implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention in times of crisis

The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is considered a model of strong and effective cooperation between seafarers and the global shipping industry, and its implementation is all the more crucial...

InfoStories

Turning labour standards into reality: 100 years of supervision

Since 1926, the ILO’s supervisory system has helped transform international labour standards into concrete progress for workers, employers and societies worldwide through independent expertise, tripartite dialogue and collective commitment.

HealthWISE and harrassment prevention in action at work

Strengthening safe and healthy workplaces in the Eastern Cape

A joint ILO and Department of Employment and Labour mission, under the ILO-OECD-WHO Working for Health Programme, is helping build safer, healthier and more respectful workplaces in the Eastern Cape through HealthWISE implementation and workplace...