Quality Apprenticeships: Life-changing experiences

Posted on 13 July 2018 by ILO Blog

Ashwani Aggarwal, Team Lead (Work based Learning, Apprenticeships and Recognition of Prior Learning), ILO

It’s easy to get caught up in day to day processes when you work for a large UN agency like the International Labour Organization. You can end up losing sight of the value and impact of your work. But the day I read an article in one of Tanzania’s leading newspapers about a student who attended an ILO apprenticeship programme which trains young people to work in the hotel industry, I was literally moved to tears.

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A future of work based on sustainable production and employment

Posted on 6 July 2018 by ILO Blog

Simel Esim, Head of the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit,

On the first Saturday of July each year, the international community celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives. This year’s theme, Sustainable consumption and production of goods and services is timely, as the ILO works towards a future of work that is based on sustainable production and employment models. Continue reading →

What’s to expect from this year’s International Labour Conference

Posted on 25 May 2018 by ILO Blog

Dimitrina Dimitrova, Deputy-Director of the ILO’s Meetings Department

This year’s International Labour Conference (ILC) – an annual event often called the world parliament of labour – will take place at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva from 28 May to 8 June, 2018.

More than 5,700 government, employer and worker delegates from the ILO’s 187 member States will discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the world of work. Here’s a look at some of the main items on the agenda of the 107^th session of the ILC.

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