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Why a culture of prevention is essential for occupational safety and health
Garment workers operate sewing machines. In the foreground, a female worker wears a purple uniform with "Safety Committee Member" written on the back.

Podcast

Why a culture of prevention is essential for occupational safety and health

Uganda strengthens community response to child labour
Child labour Uganda

Child Labour

Uganda strengthens community response to child labour

In Kalungu District, the CLEAR Supply Chains has successfully supported and strengthened an informal child protection structure to identify, monitor and resolve child labour in coffee producing communities. A total of 122 para-social workers were...

East Sumba Province in Indonesia strengthens seaweed development through Thailand learning exchange
A group of participants observe and handle fresh green seaweed during a demonstration at a seaweed cultivation facility in Thailand.

South-South Cooperation

East Sumba Province in Indonesia strengthens seaweed development through Thailand learning exchange

South-South study visit provides insights on innovation, value addition and sustainable growth for East Sumba's seaweed industry.

Social dialogue at 50: Lessons for the future
A worker and a manager stand on opposite sides of a table and shake hands, while two other people look on.

Podcast

Social dialogue at 50: Lessons for the future

In 1976, Convention No. 144 established a simple but powerful principle: governments, employers and workers should shape labour policy together. To mark the Convention's 50th anniversary, representatives of governments, employers and workers,...

Three ways we promote nature-inspired work across the Arab States
workers planting trees

World Environment Day

Three ways we promote nature-inspired work across the Arab States

This year on World Environment Day, the ILO Regional Office for Arab states is highlighting three examples of how decent work is a central element in the transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all.

ILO’s SCORE Programme scales up in Mongolia’s cashmere sector through Public-Private Partnership, advancing Youth friendly workplace...
Representatives from participating enterprises take part in a group exercise during the launch of the ILO SCORE Programme 2026 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Youth Employment Promotion Project (YEPP)

ILO’s SCORE Programme scales up in Mongolia’s cashmere sector through Public-Private Partnership, advancing Youth friendly workplace...

Following successful pilot results in 2025, the ILO’s SCORE Programme is expanding in Mongolia’s cashmere sector through a public-private partnership model to promote youth employment, advance youth-friendly workplace practices, improve...

Empowering women in the leather and footwear sector through skills and opportunity
Women in leatherwork training

Productivity Ecosystems for Decent Work

Empowering women in the leather and footwear sector through skills and opportunity

A grant, a business plan and 300 chickens: how ILO-supported competition helps poultry farmer grow in Ethiopia
Hussien Saleman, founder and manager of Al Nur Poultry Farm, in the first branch of the farm

Voices from ILO PROSPECTS

A grant, a business plan and 300 chickens: how ILO-supported competition helps poultry farmer grow in Ethiopia

Through entrepreneurship training and access to finance under the PROSPECTS programme, Hussien Saleman has expanded Al Nur Poultry Farm, created jobs for young people and strengthened local supply chains in Ethiopia’s Somali Region.

Lifelong learning and the future of work
Two men who are engineers, one older on the left who wears a white lab coat, and one younger on the right, who is an apprentice and wears safety glasses, look down at something outside the frame of the image.

Podcast

Lifelong learning and the future of work

In a world shaped by AI, the green transition, and demographic change, lifelong learning is key to supporting good jobs and more inclusive societies. But new ILO research shows access to quality learning is still deeply unequal.

AI and decent work: A moment of choice
A female maintenance engineer wears a hard hat, safety glasses and a high-visibility vest. She is crouched down and is inspecting a piece of robotic machinery. 

Podcast

AI and decent work: A moment of choice

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping work – from jobs to skills to everyday working life. But will it strengthen decent work, dignity and shared prosperity – or deepen inequality and exclusion?

Breaking the silence in the cocoa fields: A virtual reality story from Nigeria
A young woman, Obassey Divine, stands in a cocoa plantation while another woman,Blessing Thomas, sits at a sewing machine in her tailoring shop in Nigeria.

360° video story

Breaking the silence in the cocoa fields: A virtual reality story from Nigeria

In this immersive virtual-reality film from Nigeria, young women from cocoa-growing communities share how child labour disrupted their childhoods, and how the ACCEL Africa project helped them gain skills, independence and hope for the future.

Kenya Validates National Strategy to Support Sustainable Reintegration of Returning Migrant Workers
Group photo of participants standing and seated during a workshop or validation meeting in a conference room

Kenya Validates National Strategy to Support Sustainable Reintegration of Returning Migrant Workers

Validating Kenya’s draft National Return and Reintegration Strategy to strengthen coordinated support for returning migrant workers and help them access livelihoods, services, and sustainable reintegration pathways.

Trade Unions in Transformation: Navigating Disruption and Shaping the Future of Work

Interview

Trade Unions in Transformation: Navigating Disruption and Shaping the Future of Work

In this interview, Oliver Röpke, Director of the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities, explains why trade unions must strengthen their capacity to anticipate change, defend workers’ rights and shape the future of work in a world marked by...

Building a Safety Net for Uganda's Returning Migrant Workers
Group photo of participants seated and standing in a meeting room after a workshop

Building a Safety Net for Uganda's Returning Migrant Workers

Validating Uganda’s draft National Return and Reintegration Framework to strengthen coordinated support for returning migrant workers and improve access to reintegration services, skills development, and livelihoods.

From uncertainty to confidence: Yann Ratha’s journey into Cambodia’s EV future
Three participants stand in front of a presentation scree, discussing content displayed on the screen in a classroom.

ILO/China Partnership Programme

From uncertainty to confidence: Yann Ratha’s journey into Cambodia’s EV future

ILO/China partnership strengthens TVET teachers’ capacity to support Cambodia’s transition to electric mobility.

New energy, new confidence: South–South Cooperation prepares Cambodia’s electric vehicle trainers
Several people gather around an engine.

ILO/China Partnership Programme

New energy, new confidence: South–South Cooperation prepares Cambodia’s electric vehicle trainers

Training through South–South Cooperation equips Cambodian technical teachers with skills, confidence and networks to support the country’s green transition.

ILO strengthens Indonesia’s Financial Education Network through trainer certification and capacity building
Training of Trainers on Financial Education

Financial education

ILO strengthens Indonesia’s Financial Education Network through trainer certification and capacity building

New trainers certified and national network refreshed to expand quality financial education across communities and sectors in Indonesia.

50 years of ILO Convention No. 144: putting tripartism into practice
Black-and-white photograph of delegates seated in a conference room during an International Labour Conference session in 1976.

Social dialogue and tripartism

50 years of ILO Convention No. 144: putting tripartism into practice

Marking 50 years since its adoption, Convention No. 144 remains a key instrument for promoting tripartism and effective consultation on international labour standards.

Driving Cambodia’s green skills transition through South-South cooperation
EV training in china 2025

ILO/China Partnership Programme

Driving Cambodia’s green skills transition through South-South cooperation

ILO/China Partnership Programme helps Cambodian technical and vocational education and training (TVET) teachers gain skills to maintain New Energy Vehicles.

Werabe Polytechnic College and the Case for Operational Excellence in Pre-Departure Training
Front view of Werabe Polytechnic College building in Central Ethiopia.

Werabe Polytechnic College and the Case for Operational Excellence in Pre-Departure Training

The case study examines how Werabe Polytechnic College strengthened the quality and delivery of overseas employment training for potential and returning migrants in Ethiopia. It highlights the college’s operational reforms, expanded training offer,...