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ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call: winning proposals from Ecuador and Comoros start their innovation journey

Winning entries of the 2nd and 3rd Skills Challenge Innovation Calls were successfully launched in Ecuador and Comoros, with winning teams, partners and their networks expressing their commitment to support e-formality through skills development in Latin America and the Caribbean and around the prevention of forced labour through skills and lifelong learning in Africa.

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We help migrant domestic workers overcome the pandemic

ILO Senior Labour Migration Specialist, Gloria Moreno-Fontes, speaks from Pretoria about the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) Project, which aims to improve migration management in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region. The project is funded by the European Commission and implemented by the ILO in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

AU, ILO and UNICEF mark the World Day against Child Labour in Africa

The African Union, ILO and UNICEF organized a virtual Continental event to mark the World Day against Child Labour. The event brought together key actors, to discuss strategies to address child labour, taking a holistic and systemic approach based on the 2020 Global Estimates on Child Labour and related recommendations, which had been launched by the ILO and UNICEF on 10 June.

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Opening remarks by Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director-General, Regional Director for Africa at the event to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Africa

I commit the Office to work as one ILO to mainstream child labour issues into all relevant areas of work of the Abidjan Declaration implementation plan, in order to maximize our contribution to ending child labour in Africa. We will work closely with our tripartite Constituents to do so

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Media Advisory- Event to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Africa

Join us for a regional virtual event to commemorate the World Day against Child Labour.

Ten Year Action Plan on the Eradication of Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery In Africa (2020-2030): Agenda 2063-SDG Target 8.7

The Action Plan seeks to contribute to and support the acceleration of progress towards the achievement of the Agenda 2063 – SDG 8.7 target. This involves ending child labour by 2025 and forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. The target population are children, women and men who are victims of or vulnerable to the forms of exploitation addressed by the Agenda 2063 - SDG 8.7 target.

World Day Against Child Labour

Message from ILO Regional Office for Africa to mark the World Day against Child Labour 12 June 2020

Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social protection, while at the same time ensuring continued education for children. The ILO is also expediting action to strengthen the capacity of government, including labour inspection and law enforcement, as well as organizations of workers and employers.

ILO tripartite technical workshop for the SADC region Investing in the health workforce: employment and decent work in the health sector - Conclusions

The ILO tripartite technical workshop was organized in collaboration with WHO and SADC and with the support of the ILO-OECD-WHO Working for Health Multi-Partner Trust Fund.

Training of trainers on Think.Coop and Start.Coop in Comoros

ILO and Comoros agree to implement new DWCP

The ILO, the Government and the social partners of Comoros signed in Moroni a new MoU to implement the 2015-2019 Decent Work Country Programme focused on employment and social protection.

ILO and Comoros to strengthen strategic cooperation

The ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa, Aeneas C. Chuma arrived in Moroni, Comoros to officially sign the 2015-2019 Decent Work Country Program (DWCP) focusing on employment and social protection.

Tripartite consultations

Comoros ratifies the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144)

Comoros ratifies the Tripartite Consultation Convention (No. 144)

The Government of Comoros deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Tripartite Consultation Convention (No. 144).

Comoros: Confederation of Workers of the Comoros call on the Government to ratify ILO Convention No. 102

The Confederation of Workers of the Comoros (CWC) invited the Comoros Government to ratify ILO Convention No. 102 on Social Security (Minimum Standards).

Comoros

Seminar on Sustainable Development in Postal Services in African countries

Organized by the Universal Postal Union, Pan African Postal Union (PAPU) and La Poste (France), in cooperation with UNI Global Union and the ILO (Yaoundé and SECTOR).

Child labour: GAP 11

Global Action Programme (GAP) on Child Labour Issues Project

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Africa marked the World Day Against Child Labour in Africa and the Day of the African Child!

The African Union, ILO and UNICEF held a virtual Continental event to mark the World Day against Child Labour. The event brought together key actors, who discussed strategies to address child labour, taking a holistic and systemic approach based on the 2020 Global Estimates on Child Labour and related recommendations, which had been launched by the ILO and UNICEF on 10 June.

Tripartite technical workshop for the SADC region on Investing in the health workforce: employment and decent work in the health sector

National employment policy review and formulation