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Two years on from the Beirut blast, how ILO helped create jobs and a safer city

Thu, 4 Aug 2022

After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th 2020, the International Labour Organization mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process created decent jobs and hope for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees. The Organization continues to work with the authorities to restore livelihoods and create a safer city. Find out more: <a href="https://www.ilo.org/beirut/countries/lebanon/lang--en/index.htm" target="">www.ilo.org/lebanon</a>

NERVO call for a world free from child labour and trafficking

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

To coincide with World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and their last performance at Tomorrowland festival for 2022, superstar DJ duo NERVO raise their voices for action on child vulnerability, labour and trafficking.

Training to the Top: what climbing the career ladder can look like for Vietnamese women workers

Fri, 8 Jul 2022

The GEAR initiative - part of the Better Work Programme – aims to equip potential female line supervisors with necessary skills to perform effective leadership, thus leading to improved line productivity and career progression.

ILO Director-General statement: Cooperatives help build a better world

Fri, 1 Jul 2022

On International Day of Cooperatives Guy Ryder highlights how cooperatives prioritise people and decent work and contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive future.

Job Creation in Small and Medium Enterprises: An Updated Guide to Recommendation No. 189

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

The ILO Recommendation No. 189 is the only International Labour Standard providing guidelines on general conditions to increase job creation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The ILO published a new Guide to support employment policies compliant with the Recommendation No.189. This Guide outlines strategies, tools and good practices from different regions of the world to help member states to coordinate actions and effectively generate productive and decent jobs in SMEs.

Small Matters: ILO Director-General Guy Ryder’s message on SMEs

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

In his message for the 5th Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day (MSME), ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, emphasizes the importance of MSMEs, and calls attention to the need to collectively support them to drive inclusive economic recovery, environmental sustainability and decent job creation.

Day of the Seafarer: Updated standards improve maritime workers' protection

Sat, 25 Jun 2022

Millions of people depend directly on the sea for their livelihoods and hundreds of millions more rely on them for food. Safeguarding the rights and conditions of seafarers has been part of the ILO’s work for more than 100 years. In June 2022, Member States adopted important amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - which is widely known as the “seafarers’ bill of rights”.

Voices: Domestic workers need social protection too

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

What motivates someone to advocate for workers’ rights? Meet Champa, head of a network of migrant domestic workers, who lives and works in Thailand.

ILO in Action: Coffee production that is free of child labour in Honduras

Thu, 9 Jun 2022

In Honduras the ILO is working in the coffee supply chain to eliminate child labour and forced labour. The project is funded by the United States Department of Labor. National project officer, Alejandra Escobar explains.

ILO in Action: Tunisia develops its social and solidarity economy

Thu, 26 May 2022

In Tunisia, the ILO is working to develop the social and solidarity economy, particularly for young people and women in rural areas. Projects include JEUN’ESS, funded by the European Union and FORTER'ESS funded by the government of Canada. ILO project officer, Youssef Belhassen Fennira, explains.

Collective bargaining is key to forge an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient recovery

Thu, 5 May 2022

A new ILO flagship report shows that collective bargaining played a crucial role during the pandemic in forging resilience and can provide an effective means for employers and workers to tackle the new challenges that are shaking up the world of work.

The report in short

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

ILO working with local government in Tunisia to promote and implement climate action and employment creation

Sat, 23 Apr 2022

ILO in Action: Tunisia adapts to climate change through local development

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

In Tunisia the ILO is working with local municipal governments to promote employment through the development of infrastructure, which is resilient and adaptive to climate change. Jad Boubaker, Chief Technical Advisor of the European Union-financed project "Pilot Initiative for Integrated Local Development" (IPDLI), explains.

World Health Day: Jump-start a healthier and greener recovery

Thu, 7 Apr 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the multiple links between public health and the environment. Sustaining environmental and health gains can therefore help prevent future pandemics and climate-related crises.

Interview – ILO Director-General elect: "We need social and political cohesion in our world today"

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

Interviewed after his election on 25 march 2022, ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo highlights the need to ensure that economic progress is equitably distributed among the different segments of society. The ILO Governing Body has elected Gilbert F. Houngbo as the Organization’s 11th Director-General, who will take office in October 2022.

New agreement strengthens decent work in the aviation industry

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

The renewed collaboration between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aims to ensure a safe, strong, inclusive and sustainable COVID-19 recovery in the aviation industry.

Princess Sarah Culberson: Invest in the care economy for a better gender equal world

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

In celebrating International Women's Week, author, humanitarian and global public speaker, Princess Sarah Culberson of Sierra Leone, joins the ILO to call on countries to invest in the care economy and transformative policies to shape a better future and achieve the SDGs in 2030.

Conceptual framework of the self-assessment method for social dialogue institutions: SAM-SDI

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

This animated video explains the key concepts underpinning the SAM-SDI. It shows how enhancing the inclusiveness and effectiveness of social dialogue institutions should contribute to the overall goal of achieving more socially just and economically sustainable policy outcomes.

ILO in Action: Prospects for responding to forced displacement in Lebanon

Fri, 4 Feb 2022

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Shaza Al Jondi, speaks from Lebanon about the Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS), which aims to help forcibly displaced persons and their host communities tackle the challenges caused by displacement. Together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, the project will run until 2023.

Two years on from the Beirut blast, how ILO helped create jobs and a safer city

Thu, 4 Aug 2022

After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th 2020, the International Labour Organization mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process created decent jobs and hope for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees. The Organization continues to work with the authorities to restore livelihoods and create a safer city. Find out more: <a href="https://www.ilo.org/beirut/countries/lebanon/lang--en/index.htm" target="">www.ilo.org/lebanon</a>

NERVO call for a world free from child labour and trafficking

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

To coincide with World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and their last performance at Tomorrowland festival for 2022, superstar DJ duo NERVO raise their voices for action on child vulnerability, labour and trafficking.

Training to the Top: what climbing the career ladder can look like for Vietnamese women workers

Fri, 8 Jul 2022

The GEAR initiative - part of the Better Work Programme – aims to equip potential female line supervisors with necessary skills to perform effective leadership, thus leading to improved line productivity and career progression.

ILO Director-General statement: Cooperatives help build a better world

Fri, 1 Jul 2022

On International Day of Cooperatives Guy Ryder highlights how cooperatives prioritise people and decent work and contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive future.

Job Creation in Small and Medium Enterprises: An Updated Guide to Recommendation No. 189

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

The ILO Recommendation No. 189 is the only International Labour Standard providing guidelines on general conditions to increase job creation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The ILO published a new Guide to support employment policies compliant with the Recommendation No.189. This Guide outlines strategies, tools and good practices from different regions of the world to help member states to coordinate actions and effectively generate productive and decent jobs in SMEs.

Small Matters: ILO Director-General Guy Ryder’s message on SMEs

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

In his message for the 5th Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day (MSME), ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, emphasizes the importance of MSMEs, and calls attention to the need to collectively support them to drive inclusive economic recovery, environmental sustainability and decent job creation.

Day of the Seafarer: Updated standards improve maritime workers' protection

Sat, 25 Jun 2022

Millions of people depend directly on the sea for their livelihoods and hundreds of millions more rely on them for food. Safeguarding the rights and conditions of seafarers has been part of the ILO’s work for more than 100 years. In June 2022, Member States adopted important amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - which is widely known as the “seafarers’ bill of rights”.

Voices: Domestic workers need social protection too

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

What motivates someone to advocate for workers’ rights? Meet Champa, head of a network of migrant domestic workers, who lives and works in Thailand.

ILO in Action: Coffee production that is free of child labour in Honduras

Thu, 9 Jun 2022

In Honduras the ILO is working in the coffee supply chain to eliminate child labour and forced labour. The project is funded by the United States Department of Labor. National project officer, Alejandra Escobar explains.

ILO in Action: Tunisia develops its social and solidarity economy

Thu, 26 May 2022

In Tunisia, the ILO is working to develop the social and solidarity economy, particularly for young people and women in rural areas. Projects include JEUN’ESS, funded by the European Union and FORTER'ESS funded by the government of Canada. ILO project officer, Youssef Belhassen Fennira, explains.

Collective bargaining is key to forge an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient recovery

Thu, 5 May 2022

A new ILO flagship report shows that collective bargaining played a crucial role during the pandemic in forging resilience and can provide an effective means for employers and workers to tackle the new challenges that are shaking up the world of work.

The report in short

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

ILO working with local government in Tunisia to promote and implement climate action and employment creation

Sat, 23 Apr 2022

ILO in Action: Tunisia adapts to climate change through local development

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

In Tunisia the ILO is working with local municipal governments to promote employment through the development of infrastructure, which is resilient and adaptive to climate change. Jad Boubaker, Chief Technical Advisor of the European Union-financed project "Pilot Initiative for Integrated Local Development" (IPDLI), explains.

World Health Day: Jump-start a healthier and greener recovery

Thu, 7 Apr 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the multiple links between public health and the environment. Sustaining environmental and health gains can therefore help prevent future pandemics and climate-related crises.

Interview – ILO Director-General elect: "We need social and political cohesion in our world today"

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

Interviewed after his election on 25 march 2022, ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo highlights the need to ensure that economic progress is equitably distributed among the different segments of society. The ILO Governing Body has elected Gilbert F. Houngbo as the Organization’s 11th Director-General, who will take office in October 2022.

New agreement strengthens decent work in the aviation industry

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

The renewed collaboration between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aims to ensure a safe, strong, inclusive and sustainable COVID-19 recovery in the aviation industry.

Princess Sarah Culberson: Invest in the care economy for a better gender equal world

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

In celebrating International Women's Week, author, humanitarian and global public speaker, Princess Sarah Culberson of Sierra Leone, joins the ILO to call on countries to invest in the care economy and transformative policies to shape a better future and achieve the SDGs in 2030.

Conceptual framework of the self-assessment method for social dialogue institutions: SAM-SDI

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

This animated video explains the key concepts underpinning the SAM-SDI. It shows how enhancing the inclusiveness and effectiveness of social dialogue institutions should contribute to the overall goal of achieving more socially just and economically sustainable policy outcomes.

ILO in Action: Prospects for responding to forced displacement in Lebanon

Fri, 4 Feb 2022

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Shaza Al Jondi, speaks from Lebanon about the Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS), which aims to help forcibly displaced persons and their host communities tackle the challenges caused by displacement. Together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, the project will run until 2023.