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ILO calls on Belarus President to respect workers’ rights and freedoms amid protests
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, has called on the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, to prevent human rights violations and...
ILO Child Labour Convention achieves universal ratification
For the first time in the ILO’s history, an International Labour Convention has been ratified by all member States. Convention No. 182 on the...
ILO Violence and Harassment Convention will enter into force in June 2021
Fiji has become the second country to ratify the ILO’s Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) , after Uruguay did so on 12...
Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future crises
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed devastating gaps in social protection coverage in developing countries, and recovery will only be sustained and future crises prevented...
Iraq and ILO pledge to further decent work in the country
Iraq and the International Labour
Organization (ILO) have signed the first Iraq Decent Work Country Programme
(DWCP), as the country recovers from decades of conflict.
The Programme,...
Job quality of concern to all workers
A joint ILO-Eurofound report covering
about 1.2 billion of the world’s workers found stark differences in working
hours, significant levels of intensive and emotionally demanding work...
New safety and health issues emerge as work changes
Changes in working practices,
demographics, technology and the environment are creating new occupational
safety and health (OSH) concerns, according to a new report from the
International Labour...
Business models worldwide face radical change
Global
business models are changing rapidly and radically, creating a need for
policy-makers, businesses and employers’ organizations to innovate, adjust and
become more flexible, according to new...
More than half the global population lacks health care and social security
More than
half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health care and just
29 per cent have comprehensive social security coverage, according to a...
Work-related gender gaps persist but solutions are clear
A future of work in which women will no longer lag behind men is within reach, but it will
take a quantum leap, not just...