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    Social dialogue, key to strengthening safety and health at work

    28 April 2022

    Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have shown the importance of an effective collaboration between social partners in preventing occupational accidents and diseases, says a new report from the ILO on World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

  2. The IOM and ILO organize a workshop on fair and ethical recruitment of migrant workers

    03 September 2019

    Hosted in Guatemala, the workshop brings together government institutions and entities responsible for statistics and censuses at the national level, as well as experts from IOM and ILO, and employers, workers and civil society organizations.

  3. Making a brighter future for work in the Americas

    05 October 2018

    At the end of the 19th American Regional Meeting the tripartite constituents approved the Panama Declaration, calling on the region’s social partners to work together to create a better future with decent work and social justice.

  4. Ryder: Social dialogue, the key to a future of work with social justice

    02 October 2018

    At the opening of the 19th American Regional Meeting, ILO Director-General encourages governments, workers and employers to work together in order to face the challenges in the region.

  5. Guatemala ratifies the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175)

    01 March 2017

    Guatemala becomes the 17th country to have ratified Convention No. 175

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  1. World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Latin America and the Caribbean

    11 April 2022

    This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22.

  2. Haiti ILO Cooperation: Leveraging ILO’s programming to support earthquake response

    22 March 2022

    The ILO co-led, with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MAST), the Employment and livelihood impact sector of the 2021 of the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA). The Recovery and Reconstruction Framework and action plan was developed on the basis of the PDNA and the main priorities for the employment and livelihoods sector post-earthquake.

  3. Employment and Migration Northern countries of Central America 2021

    08 December 2021

    To better manage the migration of people from the countries of the North of Central America, it is important to link employment and migration policies, especially those supporting women and youth, so to reduce their propensity to migrate irregularly.

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  1. "Es muy importante que desde las Américas mandemos al mundo un mensaje común, tripartito, que no hay desarrollo que merezca el calificativo de humano sin trabajo decente y la democracia sólo se fortalece si hay mejores empleos para todos".
    Director General de la OIT, Guy Ryder

  1. Putting the focus on Decent Work and Labour Migration in Central America!

    13 December 2021

    The ILO launches a series of fact sheets to analyse the labour and migration profile of migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, as well as a series of recommendations to promote decent jobs, improve working conditions and establish mechanisms to ensure social protection.

  2. Panamanian firms advance towards gender equality

    25 January 2021

    In the case of Panama, the decrease in the economic gender gap would have a considerable impact in the country´s economy, according to research by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

  3. Responses to COVID-19: International Labour Standards and tripartite cooperation needed, says the ILO

    29 June 2020

    ILO tools developed over 100 years help to address effectively the global crisis of COVID-19.