The Maternity Protection Resource Package provides inspiration and tools to help organizations and individuals everywhere to strengthen and extend maternity protection to all women in all types of economic activity. The Package can be used as a reference for self-learning, training, policy (...)
The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, whose work constitutes the cornerstone of the ILO's supervisory system on international labour standards, has just published its annual report.
This news brief is for ILO constituents in the Pacific to keep them updated on ILO issues and activities related to Decent Work Country Programmes in their respective countries.
The International Social Security Association and the ILO have forged a new link aimed at promoting extension of social security to the 80 percent of the world's people who lack coverage.
L'Association internationale de la sécurité sociale (AISS) et l'OIT forgent un nouveau lien visant à promouvoir l'extension de la sécurité sociale aux 80 pour cent de la population mondiale qui n'en disposent pas.
On 20 March 2012, during the first panel session on HIV and Human Rights the Human Rights Council highlighted the need to protect human rights at work, citing the 2011 Political Declaration and Recommendation No. 200. ILO and other speakers urged the Council to keep this important issue on its (...)
Eastern Europe and Central Asia need to remove fossil fuel subsidies, invest in ‘green’ jobs, and establish social protection floors to ensure a sustainable future. These were some of the findings from a new UN report “From Transition to Transformation”, launched in Istanbul, Turkey at the first (...)
Ahead of the Youth Employment Forum, the ILO is holding consultation events in more than 40 countries around the world to hear young people’s views on the alarming employment situation. The meeting in Beirut underlined the different angles of youth employment in the Arab (...)
The ILO Green Jobs Programme organized a national workshop on green jobs creation on 22 and 23 February 2012. During this workshop, Government representatives, as well as employers’ and workers’ organizations discussed the results of four national assessments on green job creation conducted (...)