ILO and a Green Future of Work

United Nations labour agency, International Labour Organisation (ILO) has launched ILO Green Week to explore what a green future of work could look like, and how we can get there. This is coming as the world grapples with the devastating economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. The ILO event is highlighting how a just  transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and […]

Lebanon: German Envoy, ILO Chief Meet Workers Clearing Explosion Site

Within days of the blast, ILO mobilised its on-going Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme (EIIP), so far creating around 200 decent jobs for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees, 15 per cent of whom are women. Its aim is to help restore livelihoods and provide much-needed income in the aftermath of the blast, which claimed the lives […]

Better World of Work: ILO Welcomes World Leaders’ Commitment

Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, has welcomed the commitment and determination of world leaders to build a better world of work as a core element of recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking at the close of the Global Summit on COVID-19 and the World of Work, he said, “I think it is […]

COVID-19 Pandemic Sparks Off Another Crisis, ILO Says

Director of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Conditions of Work and Equality Department, Manuela Tomei, says the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic has sparked off another crisis within its crisis. “We know that many millions of migrant workers, who were under lockdown in their countries of work, have lost their jobs and are now expected to return […]

ILO Enhancing Employability Of Young People

With a project launched by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Fatimata Walet Mohamed, 25, has become a topographer. The goal is the construction of an elementary school in the refugee camp at Mbera, in the south-eastern corner of Mauritania that, since […]

COVID-19 Sacks Millions From Jobs In Q2, UN Brief Says

Massive losses in working hours are predicted for the second quarter of 2020 ending this June. It is said to be equivalent to 305 million full-time jobs. Some 1.25 billion workers, representing 38 percent of the workforce is employed in high-risk sectors. Almost all of the world’s workers, some 94 per cent, were living in […]

55 Million Domestic Workers At Risk Of Losing Jobs, Income- ILO 

A new estimate by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says more than 55 million domestic workers are at significant risk of losing their jobs and income due to lack of effective social security coverage. The vast majority – 37 million – of these domestic workers are women. An assessment made at the beginning of June […]

COVID-19 Crisis: Spike in Child Labour Underway, ILO, UNICEF, Warn

After two decades of progress, there are growing concerns within the United Nations that child labour will spike as a result of the raging COVID-19 crisis.   This is a menace that commonly affects children in Nigeria due to the harsh economic conditions of most families. On the streets of the Niger Delta and Eastern Nigeria, […]

Uruguay Makes History as First Country to Ratify ILO’s Violence, Harassment Convention

A year after the International Labour Conference adopted the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190),  Uruguay has become the first country to ratify the Convention.   Uruguay’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ricardo González Arenas, deposited the instrument of ratification with ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, in a virtual […]

ILO Presses Governments on Plight of Trapped 200,000 Seafarers

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is scaling up pressure on the government on the plight of 200,000 seafarers trapped on board ships around the world. The seafarers are being trapped because of measures to contain the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic. Referring to the provisions of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, ILO wants governments to adopt without delay all […]