All ILO Newsroom content
February 2024
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Transforming the teaching profession
UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession puts forward recommendations to allow teachers to become drivers of change in education
26 February 2024
Recommendations from the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession, aimed at transforming the future of the teaching profession, were launched at the 14th Policy Dialogue Forum of the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030.
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ILO and the Government of Ukraine working towards recovery and decent work in the war-torn country
22 February 2024
As the war against Ukraine enters its third year, the ILO and the government of Ukraine are working towards setting the country on a path of recovery and development, through a newly agreed-upon strategy that invests in people, creates quality employment and sustainable enterprises, and improves labour market governance. Watch to find out more.
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© Victor Libuku / ILO 2024
Fishing sector
New guidelines on medical examination of fishers adopted by the International Labour Organization and International Maritime Organization
22 February 2024
The crew of fishing vessels need to be medically fit for their physically demanding work. New medical examination guidelines will improve and standardize these examinations, leading to improved health and safety in the fishing sector.
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Article
Emerging Insight: The best of 2023
22 February 2024
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Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.
Advancing Decent Work and Labour Rights Globally
21 February 2024
In his keynote address to the event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, says the fight for decent work and labour rights is one that demands our urgent attention.
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Article
Tackling water woes: ILO’s vocational training success in Kenya
21 February 2024
With support from the Government and partners, ILO PROSPECTS introduced a skill development programme supporting maintenance of water sources and supply systems in a drought prone community of Garissa, Kenya. The first batch of trained Water System Operators graduated this week.
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Disability Inclusion
Forty persons with disabilities receive job offers at groundbreaking national job fair
20 February 2024
The Bangladesh Business and Disability Network (BBDN) organized their largest post-COVID National Job Fair for Persons with Disabilities on 19 February resulting in 40 participants receiving jobs offers pending successful background checks.
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World Day of Social Justice
Change must start with a focus on social justice
20 February 2024
On World Day of Social Justice, ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, said there is a unique opportunity to bend the arc of history in favour of social justice and to put social needs at the same level as economic and environmental concerns.
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© Ramasomanana / UNICEF 2024
Basic social protection
1.4 billion children globally missing out on basic social protection, according to latest data
14 February 2024
Fewer than 1-in-10 children in low-income countries have access to child benefits, leaving them vulnerable to disease, education gaps, poor nutrition, poverty and inequality.
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Video
Work Wise Youth: A guide to youth rights at work
13 February 2024
This is an explainer video for launch of ILO's new guide which aims to improve enhance young workers’ knowledge about their rights at work.