Didier Drogba cautions young African footballers on the perils of exploitation and human trafficking as part of a campaign by the International Labour Organization, FIFPRO, and the Didier Drogba Foundation, aiming to raise awareness and protect aspiring players.

Regina's journey exemplifies how economic empowerment can serve as a powerful tool in reducing HIV stigma and discrimination within communities.

The International Labour Organization recognizes progress in improving gender equality within national business organizations, stressing the need to remove barriers for women.

The World Day of Social Justice reminds us each year of the need to build fairer, more equitable societies. Support is growing for creating a wide-reaching Global Coalition for Social Justice to bolster multilateral cooperation and align policies to further social justice aims. To mark the Day, the International Labour Organization is broadcasting live a series of events held in major cities around the world. The events bring together high-level speakers from across the world of work to discuss how to put social justice at the centre of international, national and regional policy agendas.

Around 1.4 billion children under 15 lack social protection, making them vulnerable to poverty, poor nutrition, and disease. Child benefits can reduce poverty and provide essential services like healthcare, nutrition, and education. However, fewer than 1-in-10 children in low-income countries have access to child benefits, compared to 84.6% in high-income countries. The International Labour Organization (ILO), Save the Children, and UNICEF call on governments to provide universal child benefits to protect all children. Although access to child benefits has increased globally from 20% in 2009 to 28.1% in 2023, this progress has been unequal, with low-income countries lagging behind. To address the issue, the organizations have launched the Global Child Benefits Tracker to monitor children's access to benefits and advocate with governments and donors to close the gaps.

The world of work is undergoing profound change. These changes are creating skills gaps, mismatches and shortages that are resulting in unfilled jobs and lost productivity. So how do we close this skills gap? In search of an answer, the International Labour Organization has adopted a new international labour standard focused on updating its approach to skills and quality apprenticeships. But how will it work in practice? In this podcast Martin Henry, Research, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator of Education International in Brussels, and Kathryn Rowan, Executive Director of GAN, the Global Apprenticeship Network based in Geneva, share their insights.

The labour market showed modest improvement in 2023, with a decline in the unemployment rate below pre-pandemic levels. But the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2024 finds worrying trends for 2024. The report reveals imbalances and vulnerabilities that are damaging prospects for a sustainable global recovery. A decline in real wages, persistent inflation, an increase in working poverty, and a deceleration in productivity growth create the conditions for greater inequality and undermine efforts to achieve social justice.

The escalation of hostilities in Gaza is continuing to have grave repercussions on lives and livelihoods, with cascading implications for the labour market.

The value of unpaid domestic and care work is finally changing following sustained advocacy and implementation of new measuring tools.

There is much discussion of the effects Generative AI will have on job creation and destruction, but just as important is the effect it will have on the quality of jobs – decent work – and which countries and sectors will feel the effects most. A new ILO research paper suggests that its impact on the augmentation of jobs is at least as important as the automation of tasks. However, it also implies that, without the right policies, AI could deepen existing inequalities between genders and the richest and poorest. Find out more in this episode of ILO's Future of Work Podcast.

Care work, both paid and unpaid, is crucial to the future of decent work. Growing populations, ageing societies, changing families, women’s secondary status in labour markets and shortcomings in social policies demand urgent action on the organization of care work from governments, employers, trade unions and individual citizens. The care economy is growing as the demand for childcare and care for the elderly is increasing in all regions. With the global demand for domestic workers likely to grow, the International Labour Organization steps up action to ensure they have access to decent work.

One in five employees will experience mental illness during their lifetime. Listen to ILO´s “The Future of Work” podcast to discover the four steps that employers can take to minimize workplace mental health stress.

Good mental health is vital to our overall health and well-being. Yet one in eight people globally is living with mental health conditions, which can impact their physical health, their well-being, how they connect with others and their livelihoods. Mental health conditions are also affecting an increasing number of adolescents and young people. 

ILO is raising awareness and fostering concrete actions to improve safety and health for workers in the coffee supply chain through its #coffeepeople campaign.

Ditraiza Ramírez is a Venezuelan migrant entrepreneur living in Cali, Colombia. In her spare time, she helps migrants learn about their rights to social protection.

The ILO was by the side of the children of seasonal agricultural families all summer to ensure that they could go to school instead of the fields. With the organized educational activities, sightseeing, sports, music, and skill-building workshops, the children had a very productive summer.