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Ensuring safety and health at work
Oped, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, Published on 26/04/2024
» Climate change is having serious impacts on the safety and health of workers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Together we can end child labour
Oped, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, Published on 20/01/2023
» Some 62 million children in the Asia-Pacific region are in child labour. It is a simple sentence to write but far harder to comprehend. Spend a moment to think just how big that number is -- roughly similar to every child aged under 14 in the Philippines, Vietnam and Japan combined. Meanwhile, 28 million of them undertake hazardous work, risking their lives and health daily in sectors such as mining, agriculture and construction.
Building a health and safety culture
Oped, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, Published on 28/04/2022
» When it comes to workplace safety and health, "social dialogue" matters.
Accept value of domestic workers
Oped, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, Published on 16/06/2021
» When I took up my role as the regional director of the International Labour Organization in Bangkok, domestic workers were at the forefront of my mind. Not only is the Asia Pacific region home to half of the world's domestic workers, but this group of workers exists at the nexus of so many areas of my own personal interest -- the rights of women workers, health and housing, international cooperation and migration governance.
Workplace gender equality needs quantum leap
News, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, Published on 08/03/2021
» It's now more than 100 years since the International Labour Organization first established standards on women in the workplace, focussing on maternity protection.