News and statements on labour migration

  1. EU, ILO and IOM join forces to promote ethical recruitment

    02 April 2014

    Many migrants continue to be exposed to the risk of being lured into exploitative employment by unscrupulous brokers. The ILO, IOM and the EU convene Asian recruitment agencies in Manila to discuss ways to improve migration governance systems, ethical recruitment and the professionalization of the industry.

  2. Opening address at the making breakthroughs in the implementation of ethical and professional recruitment

    01 April 2014

    By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the Making breakthroughs in the implementation of ethical and professional recruitment, 2nd Regional Conference in view of the creation of Alliance of Asian Associations of Overseas Employment Service Providers, Manila, Philippines, 1 April 2014

  3. Cinzia Del Rio: “A migration policy is urgent in the European Union”

    01 April 2014

    The recent deaths of hundreds of migrants seeking to reach Europe highlight the need to have a comprehensive policy on migration. According to Cinzia Del Rio who chairs the international department of Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL), Italian unions are faced with many challenges with respect to migrant workers. In this interview, she gives her views on migration in Europe, and more particularly in Italy. Ms Del Rio expects strong support from the ILO to build a legal framework at the European level in order to protect migrant workers.

  4. ILO signs agreement with g7+ group of fragile States

    21 March 2014

    On 20 March 2014, during a High-Level Meeting on Decent Work in Fragile States, the ILO and the g7+ group signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a partnership for cooperation in job creation, skills development, social protection, SSTC, migration, and labour market monitoring.

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    What are your perceptions of migrants?

    21 March 2014

    The number of people migrating has risen from 154 million in 1990 to 232 million in 2013, and for many years migrants have made up about three per cent of the world’s population. Today there are more migrants than ever because of the growing world population.

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    Crisis prompts Albanian workers to return home

    26 February 2014

    The first modern Albanian employment centre opened last month to provide better services to jobseekers, particularly migrant workers returning to Albania from crisis countries in Europe.

  7. ILO: More decisive actions needed in Qatar

    13 February 2014

    ILO Deputy Director-General Gilbert Houngbo participated in a European Parliament hearing on sports and human rights in Qatar following recent allegations concerning unacceptable working and living conditions and human rights violations affecting migrant workers involved in the preparations of the 2022 World Cup.

  8. ILO and the Global Migration Group: Improving global migration governance

    01 January 2014

    As chair of the GMG, the ILO is seeking better measures to govern migration as more and more people move around the world to find work.

  9. 2013: The world of work in pictures

    20 December 2013

    From disaster recovery, to rising unemployment and the protection of workers across the globe, ILO News looks back at the most memorable events and images from the World of Work in 2013.

  10. Helping migrant workers to secure social security rights

    19 December 2013

    At least 25 per cent of workers in Moldova will work abroad at some point in their career. However, few of them know that in many cases they are entitled to receive social security benefits from their destination countries once they go back home. An ILO campaign is aiming to change that perception.