News and statements on labour migration

  1. Stay or go: Migration should be a choice

    09 November 2017

    Find out what Nepal is doing to promote decent work opportunities at home and informed labour migration abroad – an ILO InfoStory.

  2. ILO Governing Body welcomes Qatar’s commitment to bolster migrant worker rights

    08 November 2017

    At its 331st Session, the ILO’s Governing Body recognized progress made by Qatar, and welcomed its commitment to ensuring fundamental principles and rights at work for all workers and the resulting breakthrough to end the “kafala” sponsorship system.

  3. ILO Statement to the Fifth Informal Thematic

    06 November 2017

  4. ILO Statement to the Fourth Informal Thematic Session

    06 November 2017

  5. ILO Statement to the Second Informal Thematic Session

    06 November 2017

  6. ILO Statement to the First Informal Thematic Session

    06 November 2017

  7. ILO COOP presents on the role of cooperatives in overcoming refugee and migrant precarity in a side event at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council

    27 September 2017

  8. Ease of mobility and skills recognition seen as priorities in wide-ranging India-EU migration agenda

    26 September 2017

    The International Labour Organization and International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) hosted a dialogue on migration and mobility between India and the EU.

  9. PowerPoint Presentation: Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205)

    23 September 2017

    This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the main features of Recommendation No. 205.

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    Jordan’s first job centre for Syrian refugees opens in Zaatari camp

    21 August 2017

    Following the Jordanian government’s decision to allow Syrian refugees to obtain work permits, a new job centre has opened at the country’s largest refugee camp to help the people living there access the local labour market.