The International Labour Organisation (ILO), in partnership with the Ondo State Government and the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria, recently launched a programme aimed at promoting health insurance enrolment among cocoa farmers, informal workers, and vulnerable households at risk of child labour. The initiative, under the ILO’s Global Accelerator Lab project, funded by the United States Department of Labour, is …

International Labour Organisation (ILO), has stressed the importance of migrants to global labour market saying that international migrants continue to play a vital role in the global labour market, accounting for 4.7 per cent of the labour force in 2022. According to a new report, ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers, 167.7 million migrants were part of the labour …

The International Labour Organisation (ILO), Save the Children and United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF), have said 1.4 billion children globally, aged under 16, lack social protection. They are therefore vulnerable to disease, poor nutrition and poverty, according to new data released Wednesday by the three bodies. According to the data, in low-income countries fewer than 1-in-10 children have access …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given the International Labour Organisation (ILO) insight into the reasons behind the upsurge in cases of child labour in the country. Consequently, NLC is pleading for global assistance to address the challenges, explaining that “poverty and socio-economic dispossession are at the heart of the dominant and spiking state of the incidence of child and …