News and statements on labour migration

  1. Updated Skills Development Programme for Domestic Workers – including Migrant Domestic Workers – Launched in Argentina

    19 May 2015

    The Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) provided support to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina to review its Vocational Training Program for domestic workers and to update its training materials in order to incorporate the provisions of the ILO Convention 189 and include migrant domestic workers’ issues.

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    Informally employed Syrian refugees, working under harsh conditions, further strain Jordanian labour market

    18 May 2015

    The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in neighbouring Jordan has increased unemployment in areas in which they are highly concentrated, and further strained the host country’s infrastructure, resources and public services. This has increased competition in some sectors and added to the informality of the labour market, a new joint report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Institute for Applied International Studies (Fafo) finds.

  3. Fragile States: Funding opportunities under UN funding mechanisms

    30 April 2015

  4. Migration: Closing the gap between perceptions and true facts

    29 April 2015

    How are migrants generally perceived? Are those perceptions correct? Read an interview with OECD Deputy Secretary-General Stefan Kapferer, who was the main speaker at the second thematic meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

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    ILO Director-General calls for rights-based, migrant-centred and durable solutions to help migrants crossing into Europe

    23 April 2015

  6. ILO and UAE agree on capacity building programme for the MoL to govern its labour market and monitor working conditions

    20 April 2015

    The two-year project will improve the UAE’s capacity to govern its labour market and monitor working conditions, including those of migrant workers.

  7. Law on Domestic Work in Paraguay Approved

    17 March 2015

    The Paraguayan Parliament approved a law on Domestic Work, equating domestic workers’ rights with all wage-workers. The law is based on the ILO Convention 189, which was earlier ratified by Paraguay in May 2013 and required harmonization with the national legislation.

  8. Women Migrant Rights discussed at the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

    09 March 2015

    Representatives of Member States, UN entities and ECOSOC-accredited NGOs from different regions of the world attended the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Migrant domestic workers’ rights were discussed at several side events, among them “Organizing for Women Migrant Rights” and “The Feminization of Migration and Globalization of Reproduction: Commodifying care and procreation across borders”.

  9. In their own voices

    02 March 2015

    An ILO-produced film documents the opportunities and obstacles on the path taken by migrant health-care workers from the Philippines.

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    New study sheds light on plight of working street-based children in Lebanon

    16 February 2015

    Study is the first of its kind to comprehensively profile the size and magnitude of street-based child labour in Lebanon