10/09/2024 08:00 AM

Social Security provides benefits on a gender-neutral basis. Policies on social security is a powerful tool to reduce poverty and gender inequality. It can mitigate the effects of discrimination against girl children, the risk of unemployment women face when they are pregnant and give birth, and it can provide a safety net against poverty and lack of care for women at old age.

08/09/2024 08:19 AM

The health insurance is more and more important for all people not only in Vietnam but also in the world. Every country builds their own health insurance system suitable with their countries' politics and economic situation. All regulations under Law on health insurance in every countries aims to ensure right and interest for their people.

26/08/2024 09:44 AM

The Vietnamese Government is working to promote public-private partnerships (PPP) in the healthcare sector as a means to improve the country's healthcare system.

21/08/2024 09:04 AM

An ILO delegation led by Regional Director for Arab States Ruba Jaradat visited the sites of projects that build infrastructure and create jobs through sustainable and green employment and community development.

19/08/2024 09:25 AM

My blood is as black as coal. We’re all miners in my family: niece, daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin, wife, mother... It’s not like I was born with a piece of coal in my hand, but almost, like everybody else in these parts. When the coal mine shut down, it was a total disaster. There was no work. Young people started to leave, the villages became desolate, businesses closed.

12/08/2024 04:25 PM

Number of youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET) a cause for concern, despite falling jobless rate.New ILO report finds high shares of youth NEETs, regional and gender gaps, and growing youth anxiety about work, despite encouraging global youth unemployment trends.

05/08/2024 03:24 PM

At the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil, the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) jointly launched a new G20 Social Policy Portal.

03/08/2024 02:45 PM

Cleaners, cooks, carers, drivers, security guards working in or for Thai households have new legal rights. Here’s a summary of what you need to know about Ministerial Regulation 15 on Domestic Work (30 April 2024):