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🌟 Thank You for Participating in Our Poll! 🌟 Last week, we asked: Can Palm Oil Cultivation Boost Employment in India While Protecting Worker Rights? The answer was D) All of the above i.e. Strengthening Worker Safety and Health Measures Ensuring Fair Wages and Employment Terms Addressing Risks of Child Labor and Forced Labor To dive deeper into how we can promote decent jobs in palm oil production, we invite you to explore our latest knowledge product: 📚 Policy Input Note: Respecting and promoting workers' rights in palm oil production landscapes in India. This comprehensive resource discusses job creation within the NMEO-OP framework, shares experiences from other production landscapes, and offers actionable recommendations at both state and national levels. 👉 Learn more about building a responsible palm oil sector that benefits everyone! #PalmOil #SustainableDevelopment #WorkerRights #JobCreation #NMEO-OP #PolicyInput #DecentWork https://ow.ly/EYi150Try3I

Did You Know?   Labor issues persist in General Santos City, the Tuna capital of the Philippines. Workers in the tuna industry face challenges, including unsafe working conditions, lack of formal employer-employee relationships, wage concerns, long hours, and limited social protection.   Moreover, the industry remains male-dominated, with minimal participation from women. Addressing these challenges is crucial for fostering a more equitable and sustainable tuna industry. Learn more about these pressing issues in the full study."   Read the full study here: https://lnkd.in/gWBfr5Cx

It’s Poll Time! 📊 🌱 Can Palm Oil Cultivation Boost Employment in India While Protecting Worker Rights? 🌱 India’s National Mission on Edible Oil – Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) aims to create thousands of jobs by 2026. While palm oil production can drive employment, it may also face challenges such as worker safety, fair wages, and protection from forced labor if not addressed proactively. 👉 What do you think is the key priority for sustainable job creation in palm oil plantations? 1. Strengthening worker safety and health measures 2. Ensuring fair wages and employment terms 3. Addressing child labor and forced labor risks 4. All of the above Let’s hear your thoughts! 💬 Stay tuned for the poll results next week. #Sustainability #PalmOil #Employment #WorkerRights #FairLabor #NMEO

🌿🔄 Transitioning to a green economy is essential for our planet's future. But equally important is ensuring a just transition that supports workers and communities. 🌍✨ ILO activities within #PAGE prioritizes both #sustainability and #socialequity to protect livelihoods and foster a fairer world. 🌱💼🌟 Discover more about PAGE on #JustTransition ➡️https://lnkd.in/eac5z_zy #SustainableFuture #GreenEconomy #ClimateAction  Credit 📷: International labour organization ILO Employment Policies ITCILO

🌿🔄 Transitioning to a green economy is essential for our planet's future. But equally important is ensuring a just transition that supports workers and communities. 🌍✨ ILO activities within #PAGE prioritizes both #sustainability and #socialequity to protect livelihoods and foster a fairer world. 🌱💼🌟 Discover more about PAGE on #JustTransition ➡️https://lnkd.in/eac5z_zy #SustainableFuture #GreenEconomy #ClimateAction  Credit 📷: International labour organization ILO Employment Policies ITCILO

🎯 SDG8 is about promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. PAGE makes direct and substantive contributions to the implementation of many goals and targets included in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. With its upstream policy focus and comprehensive thematic portfolio, PAGE is well placed to respond to the interconnected nature of the SDGs. Learn more about PAGE's contribution to SDG8 👉 https://lnkd.in/gDcnHM46 #greeneconomy #circulareconomy #greenjobs ILO Employment Policies  ITCILO International Labour Organization

Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work As part of PAGE, ILO's activities focus on #greenjobs, just transition and social dialogue as countries commit to greening their economies. ✅ 📹: ILO

Are the goods you buy produced by child or forced labour? The Bureau of International Labor Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor just put out the latest update to its list of goods produced with child and forced labour. Here are some of the things we find most striking: There are now around 160 million children in child labour globally, according to the ILO and UNICEF. These children are found on every continent and spread across industries, especially agriculture, manufacturing and mining. ILAB reports that goods like gold, bricks, sugarcane, coffee, tobacco, cattle and cotton lead the list of goods produced with child labour. 🌾 The prevalence of child and forced labour is growing in the mining and processing of critical minerals, adding new materials and countries to the ILAB list. For example, the cobalt sector in the DRC now faces both child and forced labour, and forced labour has been found in the Indonesian nickel sector. Critical minerals on the list are found in everything crucial to a green transition, like batteries, semiconductors, solar tech, and electric vehicles. They’re also needed in defence tech, construction and metallurgy. ⛏️ Combatting child and forced labour depends on workers’ rights. Decent work, unionisation and collective bargaining are essential to combat labour exploitation–including child labour. Reliance on audits isn’t enough—worker empowerment is key to preventing abuses. ✊ Read our summary here: https://lnkd.in/eyYchn36 #HumanRights #ChildLabor #ForcedLabor #SupplyChain #EnergyTransition #WorkersRights

Great to see the Bangladeshi interim government seeking Danish support on two critical fronts: labour rights and climate action. In the current context such partnerships are more important than ever. Denmark's expertise in renewable energy and sustainable development, combined with Bangladesh's commitment to improving labour conditions, can be the building bricks for a resilient future. #DKBDpartnerships #Sustainability #ClimateAction #LabourRights #Bangladesh #Denmark #GlobalPartnership #GreenEconomy

Congratulations to IDH , GIZ and the UN Global Compact for the #LivingWage and #LivingIncome Summit yesterday. It was excellent to see many familiar faces and to meet some new colleagues as well! The panels were very provoking and inspiring. A key takeaway for me was the role of human-made crises on #inequality and #climatechange in making living wages and living income to farmers even more urgent! Income of workers and farmers will determine our ability to adapt to increasing temperatures both from a human health, farm productivity, and food affordability point of view. Although urgent, it was also a common thread in the conference the need for "bottom-up approaches", #socialdialogue and tripartite wage negotiations in making wage increases sustainable. It is critical to act urgently but also to ensure social dialogue and bring workers and farmers along. Definitely not an easy task and a journey filled with complex challenges, but it was great to hear how different organisations are tackling them.