More than 2 billion workers worldwide were in informal employment in 2024, or nearly 60 percent of all workers on the planet.

On 7 June 2025, during its annual conference, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is holding a special session dedicated to the persistent violations of fundamental workers’ rights in Belarus, ...

In a bid to reframe the narrative around labour migration and fair recruitment across West Africa, especially in the media, journalists, trade union leaders, and labour advocates from 12 ECOWAS ...

The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Arsenio Dominguez has applauded the important commitments made at the United Nations Ocean Conference (9-13 June) in Nice ...

PUTRAJAYA: Human Resources Minister Steven Sim Chee Keong leads the Human Resources Ministry (Kesuma) delegation to Geneva, Switzerland to attend the International Labour Conference (ILC ...

On this World Day, ILO calls for full ratification of ILO Convention No. 138 on the Minimum Age and the implementation of ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour.

Doha: The State of Qatar welcomes the announcement by the International Labour Organization to elevate Palestine’s membership status from "Liberation Movement" to "Non-Member Observer State ...

The UN International Labour Organization’s India Employment Report 2024 supports Benoy’s observation, stating that low-quality jobs in the informal sector and informal employment are the ...

Pakistan presented the instruments of ratification for the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, the Forced Labour Protocol, and the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985, at ILO Headquarters in Geneva .

International Domestic Workers’ Day, celebrated every year on June 16, commemorates the adoption of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 189, which formally recognised domestic ...

The International Labour Organisation has adopted its first international labour standards specifically designed to protect workers from biological hazards in the workplace.The workers’ union, in a ...