🇲🇽🇸🇪 Regional communications officer for @ILO in Africa, striving to create a world with more compassion and social justice. All views my own.
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🌱 An Ka Baara means “our work” in Bambara. In Mali, that work is delivering results:
📱 380,000+ people reached with agricultural advice
🎧 3M+ listens
📈 28,000+ users with incomes up at least 25%
With support from @aics_it 🇮🇹
Watch the full story 👉
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When occupational safety and health laws are ignored, workers pay the price first.
⚠️ But the damage does not stop there: responsible businesses are undercut by competitors who cut corners, families lose income, productivity suffers, and entire sectors risk a race to the bottom.
Workplace safety starts with action.
In Mpumalanga, South Africa, a sawmill inspection found workers exposed to rain, mud, dust and unsafe conditions without adequate protective equipment.
“We can’t just say, we have seen this and we do nothing.”
⚠️ Safe work is decent work.
Read more: ilo.org/resource/article/saw…
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Jobs change lives.
In Cameroon, the ILO is strengthening support to create more decent jobs for young people and women, turning commitments into real results.
During her mission to Yaoundé, @FRwanyindo met with government, workers and employers to advance inclusive, sustainable employment.🇨🇲
💬 “Cameroon can count on the ILO for expertise and technical support.”
#Cameroon #YouthEmployment #DecentWork #SocialDialogue
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Health workers protect us every day. But who protects them?
In Malawi, the ILO and Ministry of Health are using HealthWISE, developed by the @ILO and @WHO, to help health workers and managers create safer, healthier workplaces.
Because protecting health workers protects everyone!
#SafeDay #Malawi #DecentWork
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Échanges fructueux au Niger avec plusieurs ministères sectoriels, sous la conduite de la ministre de la Fonction Publique, du Travail et de l'Emploi.
Objectif commun : emploi des jeunes, autonomisation des femmes et des groupes vulnérables, et renforcement du dialogue social.
ALT Réunion bilatérale entre le Directeur général de l’OIT, Gilbert F. Houngbo, et Mme Aïssatou Abdoulaye Tondi, ministre du Travail, de la Fonction publique et de l’Emploi du Niger.
ALT Réunion bilatérale entre le Directeur général de l’OIT, Gilbert F. Houngbo, et Mme Aïssatou Abdoulaye Tondi, ministre du Travail, de la Fonction publique et de l’Emploi du Niger.
ALT Mme Aïssatou Abdoulaye Tondi, ministre du Travail, de la Fonction publique et de l’Emploi du Niger, participe à une réunion avec des représentants de l’OIT.
ALT Réunion bilatérale entre le Directeur général de l’OIT, Gilbert F. Houngbo, et Mme Aïssatou Abdoulaye Tondi, ministre du Travail, de la Fonction publique et de l’Emploi du Niger.
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🎙️ Journalistes, professionnels des médias, étudiants maliens en communication et non-nationaux basés au Mali !
Vous souhaitez renforcer vos compétences et contribuer à une couverture éthique du travail des enfants ?
📢 Cette formation est faite pour vous.
📄 Assurez-vous de soumettre un dossier complet
📩 Postulez dès maintenant : ilo.org/fr/resource/article/…
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Six pays, un même élan.
Le film du biennium 2024–2025 de @OITAbidjan en action.
➡️Des vies transformées,
➡️Des opportunités créées,
➡️Une résilience renforcée,
Découvrez comment ces résultats prennent vie en 🇨🇮🇧🇯🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪🇹🇬.
👉 youtu.be/AV46B3f0lyg
#EmploisJeunes
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In Kenya, inclusive finance is opening doors.
For Saidi Hota, Bahati Birengo and Huda Abarken, it means a chance to grow businesses, create income and build a more secure future.
Through the @IloProspects partnership, funded by the @DutchMFA, the ILO is helping expand economic opportunities for forcibly displaced persons and host communities.
#DecentWork 🔗 ilo.org/resource/article/inc…
ALT Bahati Birego, an entrepreneur in Kakuma expanded her hair and beauty business with a loan.
ALT With a loan, Huda Abarken started a small coffee business to support herself.
ALT Saidi Hota runs a growing fashion enterprise in Kakuma, Kenya, thanks to a loan he received.
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🤝 When women workers organize, change happens.
In Mbao, Senegal 🇸🇳, fish processor Yaye Coumba Seck and her cooperative are gaining recognition, building confidence, and speaking out for equal pay and workplaces free from violence and harassment.
✊ #ThisIsSocialJustice #Africa #DecentWork
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Across Africa, women are driving change in the world of work. Yet many still face barriers to equal opportunity, fair pay and safe workplaces.
In this #IWD2026 message, @GilbertFHoungbo calls for real action to advance gender equality at work. When women thrive, societies and economies grow stronger.
#InternationalWomensDay #DecentWork #SocialJustice #Africa 🌍♀️
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Childcare should never prevent women from working.
A new day-care centre for domestic workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is helping change that, ahead of #IWD2026.
🧒 Quality childcare
💼 Decent care jobs
🌱 More opportunities for women
#InternationalWomensDay
A sea of red cards in Marrakesh, for the opening of the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour.
A united global message: childhood is for learning, not labour.
Inspiring to see the world is coming together to #EndChildLabour!
One room. One message. One future.
In Marrakesh, leaders from across the world raise the red card to stand up for every child’s right to learn, grow and dream.
No more waiting. No more excuses.
Together, let’s #EndChildLabour. ❤️
ALT High-level delegates and participants unite in Marrakesh for the opening of the 6th World Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, on 11 February 2026, raising the red card in a shared call for urgent action to protect every child’s future.
Excited to be moderating today’s screening of the award-winning film Anuja at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Marrakesh.
Looking forward to discussing how storytelling can help #EndChildLabour with producer Alexandra Blaney
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This is looking great and I can't wait to see what it looks like when everyone is here tomorrow. Well done Morocco on putting this all together 👏👏👏👏👏
Let's #EndChildLabour once and for all!
⏰ Less than 24 hours to go!
Preparations are underway in Marrakech 🇲🇦 for the Sixth Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, starting tomorrow.
Together, let's accelerate action towards achieving SDG Target 8.7 and #EndChildLabour once and for all!
More info 👉 6thchildlabourconf.org/en/ho…
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From child labour to skilled work.
Forced to leave school aged 10, Orifa Taiwo worked on farms just to survive. Today, he is a trained tailor with his own shop and a future full of hope.
Watch his journey 👇
ilo.org/resource/article/chi…
#EngChildLabour #DecentWork #YouthEmployment #ACCELAfrica
Stories like Aminata’s remind us that ending child labour is possible when young people, especially young women, have access to skills and opportunity.
✂️ From learning to sew to shaping her own future.
Aminata’s story shows how skills training can open real pathways out of child labour and into decent work.
As we head towards the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour (11–13 Feb 2026, Morocco), stories like hers remind us why action matters!
🎥 Watch Aminata’s journey: ilo.org/resource/article/sew…
#EndChildLabour #DecentWork #SkillsForYouth #SDG8
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🌍 On #InternationalMigrantsDay, we reaffirm our commitment to safer, fairer labour migration for African migrant workers.
Across the continent, we support better migration governance, gender equality, skills recognition, and decent work for all migrant workers.
Rights at work are universal. Let’s make them a reality everywhere.
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Last night in Accra, we opened "In Their Hands", a photo exhibition celebrating the women and men driving Ghana’s garment and shea sectors. 📸✨
Through an ILO fellowship with @DikanCenter, photographers @officially_ata and @xoNorkor captured powerful stories of dignity, skill, and everyday resilience.
When workers thrive, industries rise. 🌱
#DecentWork #Ghana #SocialJustice #Productivity
Really inspired by all these young Nigerians who chose to share their stories with us.
We CAN #EndChildLabour!
From child labour to fashion designer.
David, from Ondo State 🇳🇬, dropped out of school at 8 to support his family.
Thanks to the ILO’s ACCEL Africa project, he now has skills, his own sewing machine, and a new future.
🎥 Watch his story
🔗 ilo.org/resource/article/how…
#EndChildLabour #DecentWork #Nigeria
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⚠️ Africa has delivered a clear call to #EndChildLabour: universal education, stronger social protection, better data, and responsible business action.
🌍 The regional consultation (8–26 Sept) set priority actions ahead of the 2026 Global Conference in Morocco.
📘 Read Africa’s roadmap toward #SDG 8.7: ilo.org/sites/default/files/…
