Eight months to the day since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza, the UN labour agency, ILO, warned on Friday that families there now send their children to work just to survive, as une ...
New York: Urgent support is needed to prevent a slide into poverty and an increase in child labour and hand-to-mouth jobs, following the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria ...
New York: Essential workers who kept families, societies and economies going while the world was on COVID lockdown, need better pay and conditions urgently, if countries are to future-pro ...
New York: Flexible working hours can advance economies and businesses while helping employees and families achieve a better work-life balance, according to a new report launched by the In ...
Geneva: Fifty million people were living in modern slavery in 2021, according to the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery . Of these people, 28 million were in forced labour and 22 m ...
New York: In the fast-changing world of work, the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) highlighted on Thursday just how important dialogue between workers and management is to the g ...
New York: Fewer women will regain jobs lost to the COVID-19 pandemic during the recovery period, than men, according to a new study released on Monday by the UN’s labour agency.&nbs ...
New York: The number of international migrant workers has increased from 164 to 169 million, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday, noting a marked rise in the num ...
Geneva: The COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating effect on the education and training of young people.
- Convention on worst forms of child labour receives universal ratification
- Millions more migrant workers, means countries lose ‘most productive part’ of workforce
- UN readying training guidelines to help cabin crews identify, report human trafficking
- International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia focuses on health, well-being of LGBTI people
- Some 90 per cent of domestic workers excluded from social protection – UN
