News, articles and events on Green Jobs
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Event
ILO at the 2018 United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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Speech
Sustainable development is not a choice, but the only way
06 July 2018
ILO Viet Nam Director, Chang-Hee Lee, made the speech at the celebration of the International Day of Cooperatives in Hanoi on 7 July 2018.
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Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
Redesol - Building sustainable and solidary links among waste pickers in the informal economy in Brazil
20 June 2018
"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue ILO interviewed Ms Sonia Dias, Waste Picker Sector Specialist at Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) on Redesol, a network of cooperatives of waste pickers in Brazil.
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107th International Labour Conference
ILO tripartism “a most potent antidote” to negative political trends and discourse
08 June 2018
World parliament of labour heads for ground-breaking new standards on violence at work and supports renewed push for gender equality.
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Event
Rationale
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Event
Background paper
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World Environment Day
ILO Director-General: Keep our planet safe, clean and fit for work
05 June 2018
The ILO joins the international community in marking World Environment Day, placing the spotlight this year on how we can beat plastic pollution.
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Trade union agenda for social dialogue in mining sector
Trade Union Workshop on Just Transition Guidelines of ILO for Sustainable Economies and Societies for All: Trade Union Agenda and Proposals for Social Dialogue in Mining Sector
The training workshop is aimed at building technical capacities of workers’ organizations in the Philippines on “Just Transition Guidelines of ILO for Sustainable Economies & Societies for All: Trade Union agenda and proposals for social dialogue in mining sector”.
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Our impact, their voices
Boosting Cambodian workers’ competitive edge with green and safety competencies
04 June 2018
Anticipating the skills needed for the transition to greener economies is one of the many actions called for by a recent report of the ILO. Cambodian vocational education schools have started to introduce ‘green’ and occupational safety and health competencies in their course with the support of the ILO.
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Green Jobs Act Assessment
Summary report
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