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Persons with Disabilities

A person with a disability pleads for help with skills development

The ILO-UK Skills for Prosperity programme joined hands with national partners to help persons with disabilities enjoy equal access to high-quality, relevant skills development opportunities.

News

ILO Constituents Re-affirm the Importance of Social Dialogue as a path towards formalization and Decent Work for Youth in the Middle East...

The ILO Constituents agreed to a framework for action in the region on the 2nd day of the first regional meeting of the Social Dialogue for Formalization and Employability in the Southern Neighbourhood Region (SOLIFEM) Project, which took place in...

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Improving Workers' Rights in Rural Sectors of Indonesia with a Focus on Women

This video introduces the ILO-USDOL project that aims to improve the rights of workers in the rural sector in Indonesia and the Philippines especially for women workers.

Eswatini Decent Work Country Programme

EDWCP 2022-2025

Uganda launches innovative and inclusive Social Finance model to fight Child Labour

The ACCEL Africa project, financed by the Netherlands, is supporting the design of innovative financial (and non-financial) services aimed at supporting workers in lower tiers of the coffee and tea supply chains in Kikuube, Hoima, Buikwe, Mbale,...

Launch of ILO Social Finance Model- A Fight Against Child Labour in Uganda.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching a Social Finance Model through its Project-Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa” (ACCEL Africa). The launch of the Social Finance Model is in...

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How PROSPECTS Partnership helps build resilience of hosts and refugees communities in Lebanon

Despite facing one of the worst socio-economic crisis in decades, Lebanon continues to host one of the highest number of refugee populations. The PROSPECTS Partnership supported by the Kingdom of Netherlands is providing education, employment and...

Our impact, their voices

Upskilling women migrant workers for the future of work

Evelyn spent almost half of her life as a migrant domestic worker. Thanks to a training scholarship, Evelyn acquired digital skills, secured a decent job locally and fulfilled her longing to be with her family.

Social justice

International labour standards as human rights

Tim de Meyer, Senior Advisor in the ILO’s International Labour Standards Department (NORMES), explains how rights and standards in the world of work are linked to human rights and why they are essential for establishing social justice and decent...

Indonesian women seafarers: Fighting against the tide of harassment and discrimination

After joining the ILO training of trainer on harassment, violence and HIV/AIDS vulnerability in the maritime sector, an Indonesian woman seafarer actively promotes the rights to be free from harassment and discrimination at sea.

The new EU Directive on minimum wage sets a dual goal

In seeking to reduce working poverty and inequality, it focuses on improving the adequacy of statutory minimum wages as well as the promotion of collective bargaining.

Unchartered waters: ILO signs MoU with the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea

The ILO joins forces with the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) through a Memorandum of Understanding focused on the need to promote decent work and the elimination of forced labour in the fishing industry.

Emerging Insight: Breaking traditional insurance models in Peru

Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in Malawi: Human stories

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Social protection to realize people’s full potential: Transition to Formality Programme (KIGEP)

Decent work is a driver of sustainable development: Decent work is about improving productivity and protecting and empowering everyone to achieve a sustainable world. Decent work flourishes in productive and sustainable enterprises: To create...

ILO Voices | Rural economy

Entrepreneur turns problems into profit

When COVID-19 hit, Merima Kukić Gego’s future looked bleak. Her traineeship had ended and her options in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina looked like unemployment or migration. But instead she found the drive to start a food and tourism business,...

Women entrepreneurs and formalization in Nigeria: Study on barriers and opportunities validated by tripartite constituents and informal...

“A key outcome of the ILO assessment is to develop recommendations which can be turned into concrete actions which benefit women entrepreneurs." Vanessa Phala, Director of the ILO Country Office for Nigeria, made this point during a validation...

Women entrepreneurs and formalization in Nigeria: Study on barriers and opportunities validated by tripartite constituents and informal...

“A key outcome of the ILO assessment is to develop recommendations which can be turned into concrete actions which benefit women entrepreneurs." Vanessa Phala, Director of the ILO Country Office for Nigeria, made this point during a validation...

The importance of just transitions and labour mobility as mitigation and adaptation strategies to climate change

A discussion organized by the ILO examined how climate change has a profound impact on labour markets, displacement and migration, necessitating mitigation and adaptation strategies and decisive action to protect migrant workers and include them in...

Youth and Women Empowerment Project

ILO Regional Director for Africa Visits AfDB-ILO Custom Mercury Free Gold Milling Plant in Zimbabwe.

As part of her mission to Zimbabwe, the Assistant Director General and Regional Director of the ILO, Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, visited an AfDB funded project site in Guruve district, where the ILO has supported the establishment of a custom...