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ILO Voices | Domestic workers

Domestic workers need social protection too

What motivates someone to advocate for workers’ rights? Meet Champa, head of a network of migrant domestic workers, who lives and works in Thailand.

Stakeholders of the Mali mining sector got together to discuss the implementation of the CRAFT Code as a tool to promote the elimination of...

The CRAFT Code, developed by Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) and RESOLVE, is designed to help both upstream and downstream players in the value chain assess critical social and environmental risks, with a specific focus on empowering artisanal...

ILO Voices | Child labour

I had to stop school and go to work because of COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the city of Mosul in Iraq, Akram’s parents lost their income and livelihood. Akram dropped out of school to help support his family by collecting and selling scrap metal. An ILO project has helped him return to...

ILO Voices | Social and solidarity economy

Our cooperative has dignified the work of waste pickers

Twenty-two years ago, Martha Elena Iglesias helped found a waster picker cooperative in Colombia called Planeta Verde. Over time, the cooperative has transformed how the local community views waste pickers and a sense of solidarity has developed...

#RatifyC190

Poster and social media competitions promote workplaces free from harassment and violence in garment sector

Better Work Indonesia (BWI), a joint programme of ILO and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), promotes safe working environment and the ratification of the ILO’s Convention No. 190 on Harassment and Violence through poster and social media...

ILO Voices | Green jobs

An apprenticeship changed my life

When war broke out in Yemen, the factory where Muhammad Taher Muhammad al-Tahri worked shut down. His job search was going nowhere, until he joined an apprenticeship programme in solar panel maintenance and installation.

Our impact, Their voices

Advancing productivity, quality improvement and decent work in Ethiopia’s garment industry - results so far.

The ILO Programme on Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia (SIRAYE) identified that a majority of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Ethiopian garment industry experienced low productivity and poor working...

Our impact, their stories

Fighting for rights and the future of ‘chikankari’

From making beautiful embroideries to lending a helping hand to others during the COVID-19 pandemic, Uzma Jalees is determined that the rights of home-based workers should be recognized and indigenous artforms like Chikankari promoted.

Our impact, their voices

Getting children out of labour and back to learning

The COVID-19 pandemic took millions of children, like Janny, out of school. The ILO helped them reconnect with their education, friends and future.

Steps towards digitalizing skills system in Lebanon

Social Protection

Kennedy Phiri an example of Ability

The ILO the United Nations Joint Programme for Social Protection (ILO, UNICEF) is providing technical support to the Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities aimed at behaviour change awareness to reduce stigma towards Persons with Disabilities...

Social Protection

Impacting the next generation of farmers

Monica Mulongoti, who lives with a disability, has excelled in her farming endeavours. She is impacting the next generation of farmers with knowledge that will help them thrive off the land. She is doing this through her children and youths in the...

Social Protection

Moving Families out of poverty through the One Stop Shop

Through the Single Window Service (SWS) delivery system Mary was introduced to various social protection programmes that enabled her to provide nutritious food to her family.

Towards a Solidarity Future: The Gathering of Cooperative Societies for Development in Mali

ILO Voices | Child labour

A child should go to school, not to work

Domboué Nibéissé was 9 years old when he stopped going to school and started to work in the cotton fields in Burkina Faso. Difficult and tiring work, two years later he was given an opportunity to return to school.

ILO Voices | Disaster recovery

How work gave me purpose after Beirut blast

On August 4, 2020, large parts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, were devastated by a massive explosion in the port. For Hani Baltaji, the rebuilding of a municipal police station has not only helped towards Beirut’s recovery, but also his own.

Emerging Insight: Using a modular approach to improve client understanding

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Melih Toprak and Fatih Polattimur, Trade Experts at the Turkish Ministry of Trade

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with cooperators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this...

Emerging Insight: Blended finance: When to use which instrument?

Social dialogue

Worker-management Joint Committees in Qatar celebrate International Workers’ Day

Workers’ and management representatives in Qatar celebrated Labour Day by sharing the positive experience and impact of Joint Committees in their enterprise, and their commitment to social dialogue and workplace cooperation.