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Published on April 9, 2024 - 06:31 GMT

Young people in Thailand’s Songkhla and Yala provinces struggling to enter the labour market

BANGKOK, Thailand (ILO News) – Limited career guidance services and a mismatch between student skills and labour market needs are having a major impact on youth employment in Thailand’s Songkhla and Yala provinces, with students in rural areas and in …

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Published on April 3, 2024 - 13:01 GMT

EU supports ILO and partners to empower community leaders to ensure safe migration of Filipino fishers

Community leaders from different church ministries in Visayas and Mindanao gather in Cebu for the pilot testing of the Migrant Fishers Information Packet, 2024. © Vonna Vista/ILO Cebu, Philippines – A new initiative is equipping migrant fishers and their …

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Published on April 2, 2024 - 22:04 GMT

Building a social protection system that reflects the realities of women's lives in Viet Nam: An interview with Cao Thi Hong Minh

Social protection Cao Thi Hong Minh works at the Viet Nam Women's Union. She is at the forefront of her union’s work, in partnership with the ILO, to train hundreds of its members in advocacy and in gender-sensitive social protection systems across …

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Published on April 2, 2024 - 16:48 GMT

Lao farmers can minimize workplace risks and hazards through training

Coffee and tea farmers on the Bolaven Plateau of Lao PDR can better recognise and minimise risks and hazards on their farms, after occupational safety and health (OSH) trainings organised by ILO and the Agricultural Research Centre of Southern Laos with …

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Published on April 2, 2024 - 00:00 GMT

Briefing Note

The Bolaven Plateau is unique in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic for its cool, moist climate, ideal for the production of high-quality tea and coffee. However, most of the men and women working in this sector lack proper employment contracts or decent …

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Published on April 2, 2024 - 00:00 GMT

Lao Social Security Organisation officials improve their actuarial and modelling skills

ILO home Regions and countries ILO in Asia and the Pacific Research and Publications Lao Social Security Organisation officials improve their actuarial and modelling ... Training helps key officials gain confidence in skills to financially manage national …

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Published on April 2, 2024 - 00:00 GMT

Review highlights progress made and challenges facing Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s National Social Protection Strategy

ILO is continuing its support to the Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic in its commitment to achieve universal social protection coverage to reduce inequality and poverty through the implementation of a National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS …

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Published on April 1, 2024 - 22:00 GMT

Bolaven Plateau communities embrace social security

A pilot initiative is bringing social protection services to farmers in rural areas of Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

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Published on March 31, 2024 - 00:00 GMT

National dialogue promotes quality employment and decent work

Bangladesh’s new Labour and Employment State Minister, Md Nazrul Islam Chowdhury addresses the national dialogue on 31 March © ILO DHAKA (ILO News) - Today, Government, industry and labour sector stakeholders convened in Dhaka for a national dialogue on …

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Published on March 29, 2024 - 11:20 GMT

Indonesia launches its Road Map for Care Economy for a more Gender Equal World of Work

The launch of the Indonesian Road Map is marked with the handing over of the Road Map by the Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection to relevant stakeholders, witnessed by ILO Country Director for Indonesia. ©ILO/Rizki Nasution JAKARTA (ILO News …

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Published on March 28, 2024 - 23:20 GMT

Ending Child Labour in Supply Chains project study visit in Uganda

ILO home Topics Child Labour News Ending Child Labour in Supply Chains project study visit in ... Interaction on child labour in Uganda’s coffee supply chain with smallholder coffee farmers and commercial coffee enterprises. Date issued: 28 March 2024 | …

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Published on March 28, 2024 - 06:02 GMT

Philippines joins the Global Accelerator aiming to expand jobs and social protection

Construction workers in a high-rise building in the Philippines. © ILO/M. Fossat The Philippines is the latest country to join the Global Accelerator as a pathfinder country. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) confirmed the official high-level …

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Published on March 27, 2024 - 14:50 GMT

New EU-UN ‘PROTECT’ project supports women migrant workers and children in Southeast Asia

Representatives of the European Union, Ministry of Labour and United Nations with participants at the PROTECT project launch. © ILO Bangkok, 26 March 2024 - The European Union (EU) announces a financial support of € 13 million to the United Nations (UN) …

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Published on March 27, 2024 - 05:00 GMT

Asia-Pacific partners revitalize collaboration to tackle child labour and forced labour in the region

A worker mother and her child at her working place in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © Shutterstock BANGKOK (ILO News) - Representatives of governments, employers and workers from across the Asia and the Pacific region have agreed to strengthen collaboration and to …

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Published on March 26, 2024 - 19:42 GMT

Opening my own barber shop would be the dream

Date issued: 26 March 2024 | Size/duration: 00:01:31 Tags: youth employment, skills, people with disabilities Regions and countries covered: Thailand

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Published on March 26, 2024 - 19:42 GMT

We are just like everyone else

Arpasara Sutdamriwong joined the “Barber” training course organized by the Young Futuremakers Thailand project supported by the Standard Chartered Foundation. The course was delivered to 20 young people with hearing impairments (aged 15 -24) at the …

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Published on March 26, 2024 - 19:42 GMT

Increasing the possibilities for my future

Panupong Mitpitak, a Thai youth with a hearing impairment, participated in the “Barista” training course in Bangkok. The training course, organized by the Young Futuremakers Thailand Project, was delivered to 20 young persons with hearing impairments at …

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Published on March 26, 2024 - 19:42 GMT

Happy International Sign Language Day

Date issued: 26 March 2024 | Size/duration: 00:01:28 Tags: youth employment, skills, people with disabilities Regions and countries covered: Thailand

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Published on March 26, 2024 - 07:46 GMT

New EU-UN ‘PROTECT’ project supports women migrant workers and children in Southeast Asia

Representatives of the European Union, Ministry of Labour and United Nations with participants at the PROTECT project launch. © ILO Bangkok, 26 March 2024 - The European Union (EU) announces a financial support of € 13 million to the United Nations (UN) …

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Published on March 26, 2024 - 07:46 GMT

Kiribati empowers entrepreneurs to enhance economic activity

Group work during the Start and Improve Your Business Training of Trainers, Kiribati. © ILO TARAWA (ILO News) – Representatives from Kiribati’s government, state-owned enterprises, training institutions, civil society as well as entrepreneurs took part in …

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