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The Ministry of Labour and the ILO Spotlight Decent Work and Corporate Sustainability at the Qatar CSR Summit 2025

Joint workshop delivers tools and dialogue to embed decent work and sustainability into core business strategies.

Vocational training boosts jobs and futures for youth in Jordan

Over 400 young women and men graduate from EU-funded vocational training programme for Jordanians and Syrian refugees.

ILO-supported programme is changing lives in Jordan through social protection

Donor delegations hear worker and employer accounts of how the ILO-supported Estidama++ programme is expanding social protection across the country

Social and solidarity economy

ILO strengthens partnerships with the cooperative movement in Latin America and the Caribbean to promote decent work

The ILO reaffirmed its commitment to advance the role of cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) in promoting decent work, the care economy, and sustainable development.

Bringing Skills to Light

Ethiopia takes step towards inclusive certification through Recognition of Prior Learning

Across Ethiopia, Certification of Competency officials are putting Recognition of Prior Learning into action — turning informal skills into formal qualifications. With new tools, shared strategies, and regional action plans in hand, they’re leading...

ILO strengthens partnerships for decent work in the British Virgin Islands

ILO Caribbean Office team visited the BVI to strengthen partnerships and promote decent work and social protection. The team held high-level meetings with Government leaders and institutions to support fair employment, stronger labour systems, and...

Labour market statistics

Vanuatu prepares for its first stand-alone Labour Force Survey

The survey will help measure the impact of climate change and natural disasters on Vanuatu’s labour market.

Multi-Stakeholder workshop advances decent work and financial inclusion in Ghana

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has convened a two-day multi-stakeholder workshop in Accra, Ghana, aimed at harnessing inclusive financial solutions to reduce decent work deficits and promote economic inclusion for vulnerable workers....

In times of global uncertainty, Indonesia prioritizes productivity and decent work

The ILO assists Indonesia in fostering harmonious industrial relations by enhancing labour-management cooperation to address the challenges of an uncertain global landscape.

Partnership

ILO and Eni reinforce joint commitment to workers' health and well-being in agri-business

Endorsing the intervention model and discussing future plans to improve workers' health, safety and social protection in the agri-business sector, the ILO and Eni reaffirmed their strong partnership during a steering committee meeting in Rome.

Workplace compliance culture is strengthening in Türkiye’s metal sector

ILO’s Strategic Compliance Model promotes a more preventive approach in labour inspection.

Palestinian cooperative leaders conclude study tour to Italy to advance inclusive economic development

The initiative aimed to strengthen the cooperative ecosystem in Palestine by learning from Italy’s long-standing experience in cooperative development and support post-conflict recovery

News

Pakistan Marks International Nurses Day 2025 with High-Level Dialogue on Decent Work for Nurses

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Brewing a safer tomorrow by expanding social protection for Indonesian coffee farmers

The ILO Vision Zero Fund and Nestlé Indonesia jointly promote a greater access to social security benefits for coffee farmers in Tanggamus district, Lampung.

CARICOM gains labour market information system insights from SADC

The knowledge exchange between the Caribbean and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regions showcased SADC’s ongoing experience with Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS), emphasizing the need for inter-country institutional...

Institutional capacity building

ASEAN employers validate policy positions on social security portability and skills mobility for migrant workers

Cambodia builds evidence-based policymaking capacity to drive decent work

Training sees government, employers and workers representatives enhance skills to design and implement evidence-based policies.

International labour standards

Thirteen leading universities in Bangladesh to integrate International Labour Standards in labour law curricula

Thirteen public and private universities across Bangladesh signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ILO to integrate International Labour Standards (ILS) in their labour law curricula.

The ILO Director for Europe Meets with the Spanish Government, Employers and Trade Unions

On 7 May in Madrid, Beate Andrees, Deputy Director-General of the ILO and Director for Europe and Central Asia, held a series of meetings with the ILO’s Spanish constituents.

Gender equality takes centre stage at Baku Conference

The ILO Conference highlighted the urgent need to close gender gaps in the workplace and accelerate gender-responsive reforms in the transition to a just and inclusive economy.