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Tanzania, Brazil and International Labour Organization collaborate to tackle child labour and promote social justice and decent work in Tanzania’s cotton value chain
The Promotion of Decent Work in the Cotton Value Chain in Tanzania project seeks to strengthen the labour inspection system, promote occupational safety and health, and expand social security coverage in the Tanzanian cotton-producing areas.
Labour inspection tool kit in Kenya
Enhancing labour inspection in Kenya through tailored labour inspection tool kits
The International Labour Organization has supported the Kenyan labour inspectorate in developing context-tailored toolkits and further to equip the Labour and Occupational Safety and Health inspectorate with locally tailored training materials, which can be used as a tool and a reference for the local context, strategies, priorities and needs of the tea and textile sectors.
Forest work must be made safer and healthier, says new FAO-ILO-UNECE report
Sustainable food systems
Experts agree new guidelines to promote decent work in the agri-food sector
More than one billion workers will benefit from the guidelines, which are based on the ILO’s instruments and Decent Work Agenda.
ILO and Embassy of Japan in Ethiopia launch a project to enhance disaster resilience in Kebribeyah and Jijiga town
Addis Ababa; Ethiopia; 25 May – The International Labor Organization (ILO) together with the Embassy of Japan in Ethiopia organized an official launching workshop on the project to enhance disaster resilience through employment intensive water works, supported by the Government of Japan, in Jijiga town, Somali regional state, Ethiopia.
New partnership between the Government of Norway and the International Labour Organization to improve working conditions in Malawi’s tobacco sector
This new project is well aligned to the strategic priorities of development cooperation between Norway and Malawi, which include a focus on the agriculture sector and respect for human rights, as well as with Norway’s global development cooperation priorities regarding the elimination of modern slavery and child labour.
ILO: 34 million jobs lost in Latin America and the Caribbean due to crisis
COVID-19 leaves behind a drastic contraction in employment and income in the region. Signs of an early recovery suggest that millions could return to seek employment in the coming weeks, highlighted the ILO in a new edition of its Labour Overview.
Media Advisory: ILO to launch new Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean in times of COVID-19
The International Labour Organization (ILO) invites journalists to a virtual press conference on the latest employment data for Latin America and the Caribbean.