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The gender pay gap

15 April 2024

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Podcast series: Global challenges – Global solutions

Addressing major labour market challenges in the world of work: What are the implications for promoting employment?

10 April 2024

In the world of work, a torrent of change has triggered multiple job crises raising the magnitude and complexity of employment challenges to unprecedented levels. Labour markets are reeling from disruptive mega-trends that weren’t on our radar just a decade ago. To address these challenges, we need updated national employment policies. In this podcast, ILO Employment Policy Expert Sher Verick explains.

News

Daycare facilities inaugurated to accommodate the needs of working mothers

07 April 2024

The daycare centers will create a conducive working environment with, safe, stimulating, and child-friendly facilities that accommodate the needs of working mothers with infant children and toddlers in the textile and garment factories.

Report

Digital labour platforms in Kenya: Exploring women’s opportunities and challenges across various sectors

04 April 2024

This report explores how the expansion of digital technologies such as digital labour platforms is reshaping Kenya’s economic landscape, and the experiences of workers engaged on these platforms, especially women.

Knowledge Exchange Seminar

Workplace Gender-based Violence and Harassment in Cambodia’s Construction Sector

Exploring gender-based violence and harassment in construction: analyzing experiences, responses, and lessons from a survey and interviews in cement factories and construction sites.

Social protection

Building a social protection system that reflects the realities of women's lives in Viet Nam: An interview with Cao Thi Hong Minh

02 April 2024

Cao Thi Hong Minh works at the Viet Nam Women's Union. She is at the forefront of her union’s work, in partnership with the ILO, to train hundreds of its members in advocacy and in gender-sensitive social protection systems across Viet Nam.

News

Cultivating new leaders in Ethiopia’s largest industrial park

29 March 2024

ILO’s Women Leadership Development Program is helping a handful of factory workers in the Ethiopia’s garment sector thrive professionally and economically.

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ILOSTAT blog

Charting progress on the global goals and decent work

27 March 2024

As the world faces a number of complex challenges, we examine key labour indicators to assess the impact of unprecedented crises in order to shed light on global trends and regional variations and their impact on our ability to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Publication

EMPLOYMENT Department Newsletter, March/April 2024

25 March 2024

Report

Profile of Portugal’s Young NEETs

21 March 2024