News and statements on labour migration

  1. When work is more than “just a job”

    02 July 2015

    As the world celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives, ILO News looks at how one cooperative in Brooklyn, New York, is offering migrants a dignified and sustainable way to make a decent living.

  2. Preventing and responding to abusive and fraudulent labour recruitment: A call for action ‎[pdf - 0.1 MB]

    23 June 2015

    The ILO and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) call on governments, social partners, businesses, other international agencies, and all concerned stakeholders, to strengthen their efforts to address abusive and fraudulent recruitment practices.

  3. Preventing and responding to abusive and fraudulent labour recruitment: A call for action

    23 June 2015

    The ILO and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) call on governments, social partners, businesses, other international agencies, and all concerned stakeholders, to strengthen their efforts to address abusive and fraudulent recruitment practices.

  4. Day 7: Delegates’ hopes at the 104th International Labour Conference

    09 June 2015

    Participants talk about the roles and hopes for this year’s ILC, plus Regional Director for Africa discusses the significance of African media coverage of the conference.

  5. Crisis migration: Decent work must be part of the solution

    05 June 2015

    Tweets from a high-level side event at the International Labour Conference in Geneva to address the urgent humanitarian, social and economic needs of migrants and refugees around the world.

  6. Day 5: Niger signs protocol to stop modern slavery plus an ILC side event on migration

    05 June 2015

    Niger becomes first to sign up to an end to modern slavery and a high-level side event on migration calls for international community to provide regular and safe migration to meet migrants’ rights and labour market needs

  7. “There is no easy fix” to the migration crisis

    05 June 2015

    ILO Deputy-Director Sandra Polaski at ILC Migration side event: “We must focus on systems of governance that provide regular and safe migration to meet migrants’ rights and labour market needs.

  8. Presentation on Migrant Domestic Workers and International Labour Standards: Global and National Trends, South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union, Workshop on Organising Migrant Domestic Workers

    04 June 2015

  9. Presentation on Integration of Migrant Workers at World Social Forum on Migration — Plenary Session

    04 June 2015

  10. Presentations on Standards and MiWORC findings to COSATU Task Team on Vulnerable Workers – Workshop on Organising Migrant Workers

    04 June 2015