Podcast series: Global challenges – Global solutions A host of disruptive trends – public health crises, accelerated automation, digitalization, and climate change – are buffeting the world of work, requiring new kinds of skills and re-skilling in labour …
As Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis, people with existing vulnerabilities have been pushed further into poverty, unemployment, and food insecurity. With ILO support, vulnerable members of farming communities in the country’s northern province are …
Women's entrepreneurship development Sofea Shater is the founder and CEO of Sofea Homeopathy Center, a treatment centre operating in Seremban, Malaysia. Supported by the ILO’s Rebuilding Better Project throughout the past year, Sofea is now embracing …
Women's entrepreneurship development Cathy Turvill is a woman entrepreneur operating in the health and wellness industry in the Philippines who received support from the ILO Rebuilding Better Project. After almost closing her business, the Nature …
Women's entrepreneurship development Paitara Chaochalard (Modd) is a Thai entrepreneur who runs a small event planning business, Neat Event and Consultant Co. The COVID-19 pandemic was particularly disruptive to her business, cutting 80 percent of …
Women's entrepreneurship development The ‘Rebuilding Better: Fostering Business Resilience Post-COVID-19’ project assisted women entrepreneurs in Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand to recover their businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic by strengthening …
In order to meet the global demand, the rubber glove industry is seeking ways to address labour shortage, including through increased automation and immigration. Decent work deficits in the industry are, among others unfair recruitment practices, forced …
International Day of Education Quality education and decent work for teachers are the foundation of social and economic progress. As technology transforms education worldwide, investments are needed to ensure everyone has the opportunity to access …
GENEVA (ILO News) – The current global economic slowdown is likely to force more workers to accept lower quality, poorly paid jobs which lack job security and social protection, so accentuating inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, according to …
GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) will publish a new edition of its World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2023 (WESO Trends), which looks at the impact of economic slowdown on the global labour market. The WESO Trends …
© Morsa Images GENEVA (ILO News) – Reduced working hours and more flexible working time arrangements, such as those used during the COVID-19 crisis, can benefit economies, enterprises and workers, and lay the ground for a better and more healthy work-life …
GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) will publish a report on working time, working hours and work-life balance around the world, on Friday 6 January 2023. Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World, looks at both …
ILO home About the ILO Multimedia Videos 2022: Advancing social justice in a world in crisis ... As 2022 comes to a close, the ILO looks back on its efforts to promote a human-centred recovery and advance social justice during a year of many firsts. Date …
When Suman Kumari was 13 her father became ill and the family fell into debt. When COVID-19 hit and with creditors at the door, she joined her mother at her workplace processing mica, a mineral dust used in cosmetics, paints and electronics. An ILO project …
In September 2021, the United Nations Secretary-General launched the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, with the ambition to help countries create 400 million decent jobs, including in the green, digital and care …
ILO, GBSN and UNIGE join forces! Deans, professors, students, social partners, private sector actors and ILO management explain why it's so important to embed human rights in business education ahead of the Memorandum of Understanding between the ILO, …
© Ministry of Habitat, Urbanism and Environment, Djibouti GENEVA (ILO News) – Twenty million jobs could be created by further harnessing the power of nature to address the major challenges facing society, such as climate change, disaster risk and food and …
© Bulatovic GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) has published a guide for employers on how to address, prevent and respond to violence and harassment in the world of work. It follows a rise violence and harassment in certain …
GENEVA (ILO News) – More than one in five people (almost 23 per cent) in employment have experienced violence and harassment at work, whether physical, psychological or sexual, according to a new joint analysis, the first of its kind, by the International …
Global data store on forced labour and trafficking provides comprehensive global and country information, including on international and national legal and institutional frameworks; enforcement, prevention and protection measures, as well as information …
