Climate changes poses increasing dangers to workers worldwide. Heat stress impact agriculture workers in greenhouses in Jalisco, Mexico.

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Climate changes poses increasing dangers to workers worldwide. Heat stress impact agriculture workers in greenhouses in Jalisco, Mexico. © Photo: Rafael Duarte / ILO

The ILO in Latin America and the Caribbean supports 42 countries to promote rights at work, foster decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on labour-related issues.

Together with governments, employers' and workers' organizations, we strive for a people-centered future of work based on social justice for all.

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Latest news and stories

Domestic work is care work: Settling the historical debt to millions of women domestic workers
Caring is also work and deserves rights.

Op-Ed

Domestic work is care work: Settling the historical debt to millions of women domestic workers

Chile renews its commitment to the promotion of occupational safety and health by ratifying a fundamental convention
Sr. Giorgio Boccardo, Ministro del Trabajo y Previsión Social de Chile, presenta el instrumento de ratificación del Convenio núm. 155 al Director General de la OIT, Gilbert F. Houngbo. 10 de junio de 2025.

International Labour Standards

Chile renews its commitment to the promotion of occupational safety and health by ratifying a fundamental convention

Publications

Innovative approaches to promoting the transition to formality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Formalization strategies

Innovative approaches to promoting the transition to formality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Registration of collective bargaining instruments: the Brazilian experience with the MEDIADOR platform

Collective bargaining

Registration of collective bargaining instruments: the Brazilian experience with the MEDIADOR platform

Events

Exchange on enterprise tools and approaches adapted and applied in contexts of forced displacement

Dialogues on displacement - Perspectives from ILO practitioners

Exchange on enterprise tools and approaches adapted and applied in contexts of forced displacement

Initiatives and programmes

Strengthening social dialogue and enhancing collective labour relations
Fortalecimiento del diálogo social y de las relaciones colectivas de trabajo

Regional Initiative

Strengthening social dialogue and enhancing collective labour relations

Regional Initiative for a Latin America and the Caribbean free of child labour
América Latina y el Caribe libre de trabajo infantil

Principles and fundamental rights

Regional Initiative for a Latin America and the Caribbean free of child labour

Socioeconomic integration of refugees and migrants from Venezuela
Promoción de la integración socioeconómica de personas refugiadas y migrantes de Venezuela

Lazos Project

Socioeconomic integration of refugees and migrants from Venezuela

Responsible Business Conduct in Latin America and the Caribbean Project
Proyecto Conducta Empresarial Responsable en América Latina y el Caribe

Enterprises and decent work

Responsible Business Conduct in Latin America and the Caribbean Project

Innovative Solutions for Formalization in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Labour Formalization

Innovative Solutions for Formalization in Latin America and the Caribbean

Contact information

Phone: +511 6150300
Email address: [email protected] 

Las Flores 275, San Isidro
Lima, Perú

 

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