🌡️ By 2030, 80 million full-time jobs could be lost due to heat stress.
The @ilo State of Social Justice Report warns that without urgent action, climate risks will deepen inequality.
Learn more: www.ilo.org/research-and-publications/stat...
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In 2024, Suriname ratified ILO Convention 102 & adopted a new National Social Protection Strategy with @ilo support.
With these steps, Suriname demonstrates its commitment to laying the foundation for a rights-based #SocialProtection system for all.
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Take a journey into the future of work!
Hear @ilo experts and real stories from workplaces you may never have seen—about how rapid changes in jobs and technology are affecting all of us, and what comes next.
🎧 Tune in today: voices.ilo.org/podcast
The new @ilo Convention No. 193 on decent work in the platform economy is a landmark step.
Adopted in June 2026, it helps ensure technological innovation and new business models go hand in hand with workers’ rights, fair competition and sustainable growth. #DecentWork
On #MandelaDay & every day, let’s build on Mandela's legacy and change the world for the better.
Every action counts. #ActNow for a more sustainable future: un.org/actnow
Social security and health are fundamental human rights.
Yet even where laws guarantee equal access to healthcare, labour market inequalities mean women don’t benefit equally in practice.
📖 @ilo brief explains: www.ilo.org/resource/news/gender-equality-...
.@ilo welcomes #BRICS focus on social protection, women’s labour force participation, formalization and future-ready labour markets.
www.ilo.org/resource/news/ilo-welcomes-bri...
In Iraq, effective social security coverage of the private-sector workforce has more than doubled in four years, reaching 879,922 workers in 2025. @ilo's efforts have been supported by @EUinIraq since 2021.
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📊 Global unemployment: 4.9% — historically low.
But informal employment is 58% of all jobs worldwide, flat since 2015.
A job is not enough. #DecentWork means quality, stability, and dignity for all.
➡️More on #SDG8: unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2026/ #GlobalGoals
What do skills mean to you? 🤔
For Clara in Malawi 🇲🇼, entrepreneurial skills have empowered her to grow her farming business and create new opportunities for young people. #YouthSkillsDay
Young people are entering a world of work shaped by digitalization, AI, the green transition & demographic change.
Skills must be the start of a lifelong learning journey, helping people adapt, access decent work and turn change into opportunity. #YouthSkillsDay
Work is changing fast, and skill demands are evolving with it. People are navigating AI, climate change, and demographic shifts all at once.
In that reality, lifelong learning cannot be treated as optional.
👉It must work for everyone.
#WorkLifeReady #YouthSkillsDay
Digital skills are helping Wayúu youth in Colombia 🇨🇴, like Arleidis, strengthen ancestral crafts and community livelihoods.
This is what investing in skills can do: preserve culture, expand opportunity, and support decent work. #YouthSkillsDay
Learn more about Jestoni’s story here: www.ilo.org/resource/article/child-laboure...
From child labourer to skills trainer in the Philippines 🇵🇭, Jestoni Go Padua’s story shows how skills can change a life.
Let’s invest in youth skills that open the door to decent work, dignity, and opportunity.
#YouthSkillsDay
The world of work is changing rapidly.
Join the conversation on "Skills for a Shared Future" this #YouthSkillsDay and explore how skills development can help young people thrive in a changing world.
🔗 live.ilo.org/event/world-youth-skills-day-...
The world of work is changing rapidly.
Join the conversation on "Skills for a Shared Future" this #YouthSkillsDay and explore how skills development can help young people thrive in a changing world.
🔗 live.ilo.org/event/world-youth-skills-day-...
We all have the right to a safe, healthy and decent job.
We're here to drive a human-centred future of work through employment creation, social dialogue, rights at work and social protection to improve the life of all workers around the world.
#DecentWork
Hafeeza Mai once had no room to dream.
Today, she helps women cotton workers stand together, defend their rights and keep their children in school.
Her voice carries far beyond one field👉 www.ilo.org/about/newsroom/voice-women-cot...
It’s 2026 and women earn about 20% less than men on average. Unacceptable.
Gaps persist in employment, earnings and leadership roles. At today’s pace, equality in employment could take nearly two centuries.
There is no #SocialJustice without gender equality.
The new @ilo Convention No. 193 on decent work in the platform economy is a landmark step.
Adopted in June 2026, it helps ensure technological innovation and new business models go hand in hand with workers’ rights, fair competition and sustainable growth. #DecentWork
Burkina Faso is expanding social health protection.
With @ilo support and government commitment, a 2024 decree extended health insurance coverage to over 360,000 more people, including informal workers & their families.
👉 www.social-protection.org/gimi/ShowCountry...
The @ilo and the @EU_Commission set renewed strategic agenda for social justice, quality jobs and a human-centred future of work.
Read more: www.ilo.org/resource/news/international-la... #SocialJustice
What does social justice look like in practice?
📹These 10 stories offer 10 answers: www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/social-justice
#ThisIsSocialJustice
By 2050, Europe & Central Asia will have ~10M fewer workers due to ageing, low fertility & fewer young entrants.
Adapting means investing in care, lifelong learning & inclusive labour markets & retaining older workers longer.
🎧podcast.ilo.org/episode/how-europe-can-ada...…
All the evidence on #DecentWork in supply chains in one hub. 🖥️
The Supply Chains Evidence Hub makes research more accessible and impactful, helping turn findings into evidence-based policy for fairer, more sustainable supply chains worldwide.
🖱️ supplychainshub.ilo.org
🗣️"The challenge with #AI is no longer whether we should govern the technology, but how to do so in ways that are coherent, practical and inclusive. "
@BeateAndrees speaks from #AIforGood Global Summit.
How do we create jobs for the next generation?
We asked Sangheon Lee, Chief Economist at the @ilo, and @IndermitGill, Chief Economist of the @WorldBankGroup, to share their perspectives.
🎥 Watch the full event: live.ilo.org/event/jobs-next-generation-me...
AI brings safety, but also new challenges.
Workers operating robots or working with digital tools must be protected from the new risks.
We need balanced, proactive policies adapted to the new digital working environment. #AIforGood
The @ilo and the @EU_Commission set renewed strategic agenda for social justice, quality jobs and a human-centred future of work.
Read more: www.ilo.org/resource/news/international-la... #SocialJustice
📍 We’re on the ground at the #AIforGood Global Summit!
High-level discussions are taking place all week on how to make AI work for all, from shaping the future of work to building the skills needed for an AI-powered world.
Find out why the @ilo is here. 👇
The Middle East crisis underscores the importance of early social dialogue to help protect jobs, incomes and working conditions, and support more resilient and inclusive responses in labour markets and economies.
Read more in the new @ilo Blog: www.ilo.org/resource/article/middle-east-c...
Join Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi (@k_satyarthi) in raising the red card against child labour.
One photo, one powerful message: child labour has no place in our world. #EndChildLabour 🟥✋
How can we create more high-quality employment opportunities and support inclusive, sustainable job growth for future generations?
📺Follow the discussion: live.ilo.org/event/jobs-next-generation-me...
AI is disrupting work as we know it. It can boost productivity and open new doors, but also push many out.
We need skills and fair policies so innovation benefits all. #AIForGood
Since 1926, the @ilo’s supervisory system has helped transform international labour standards into concrete progress for workers, employers and societies worldwide.
Learn more: lab.ilo.org/infostories/100-years-supervis... #ILOsupervision100
AI is changing the world of work.
But how can we make sure it works for everyone?
At the #AIforGood Global Summit in Geneva, the @ilo will bring a clear message: artificial intelligence must support #DecentWork and contribute to better working conditions for all.
#AI and digital technologies are reshaping labour markets at unprecedented speed.
In this @WSISprocess session, @ilo and @ITU experts will analyse the differentiated effects of AI and digitalisation on work.
🔗More info: www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2026/Agenda/Se...
The Middle East crisis underscores the importance of early social dialogue to help protect jobs, incomes and working conditions, and support more resilient and inclusive responses in labour markets and economies.
Read more in the new @ilo Blog: www.ilo.org/resource/article/middle-east-c...
Social protection is key to social justice.
Yet 3.8 billion people remain entirely unprotected.
The @ilo works with countries to build universal social protection systems that help protect people from poverty and vulnerability. #SocialJustice
Education & training are key to strengthening cooperatives.
The @ilo has developed & advanced the institutionalization of various tools to support cooperative development while empowering their members & workers.
👉 Explore here: www.ilo.org/cooperatives-and-social-and-so...
How can #DecentWork keep pace with the platform economy?
The new @ilo Convention marks a landmark step towards ensuring innovation goes hand in hand with workers’ rights, fair competition and sustainable growth.
📲Learn more: www.ilo.org/resource/article/new-ilo-conve...
Cooperatives put into practice the values including democracy, equality, equity, solidarity, social responsibility and caring for others.
They are part of the social infrastructure that helps peace take root. #CoopsDay
Cooperative employment reaches 1 in 10 workers worldwide.
Scaling up cooperatives’ contributions to employment & income generation requires enabling policies & strengthened access to support services. #CoopsDay
"Peace is more than the absence of war. It rests on #SocialJustice."
On #CoopsDay, we celebrate the role of cooperatives in bringing people together for a more peaceful world rooted in decent work and social justice.
More than 1 billion people are cooperative members. 🌍
Across regions and sectors, cooperatives contribute to stronger local economies, decent work and more inclusive development. #CoopsDay
AI is changing the world of work.
But how can we make sure it works for everyone?
At the #AIforGood Global Summit in Geneva, the @ilo will bring a clear message: artificial intelligence must support #DecentWork and contribute to better working conditions for all.
In Addis Ababa 🇪🇹, a youth-led poultry cooperative supported by the @ilo is helping young entrepreneurs build sustainable livelihoods and access decent work opportunities.
👉Read the story: www.ilo.org/resource/article/youth-led-pou...…