Resources on Mining (coal and other mining) sector

  1. Promoting sustainable and responsible business practices in the extractive industry in Mozambique

    19 January 2023

    The Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources along with employers’ organizations, trade unions, enterprises and other stakeholders engaged in a vibrant dialogue on the guidance of the MNE Declaration in the extractive industries in Mozambique.

  2. Sectoral Advisory Bodies 2023

    At its session in January 2023, the SABs are requested to make recommendations on global sectoral meetings to be held in the biennium 2024–25, and on preparatory work for sectoral meetings in future biennia.

  3. © Stéphane Bellerose / UNDP 2024
    Renewable energy jobs hit 12.7 million globally

    22 September 2022

    New report confirms growth in renewable jobs despite multiple crises and calls for targeted industrial strategies to create stable supply chains and decent jobs.

  4. Women in mining: Towards gender equality

    27 September 2021

  5. Challenges and opportunities for productive employment and decent work in the natural stone mining industry supply chain in Rajasthan

    21 April 2021

    The study is intended to contribute to a wider state-level sector development strategy, which will serve as a roadmap for creating an enabling environment for employers and workers to further Rajasthan’s position as a responsible destination for investors and buyers of natural stone.

  6. Sectoral Advisory Bodies 2021

    The Sectoral Advisory Bodies (SABs), composed of tripartite constituents engaged in economic sectors, were established at the 298th Session of the ILO Governing Body (March 2007) to review sectoral developments and to make recommendations to the ILO's constituents on priorities for sectoral work. Sessions of the SABs are held every two years, and they are chaired by a representative of the Government group of the Governing Body. Following the session held in January 2021 the SABs are to make recommendations on sectoral meetings to be held in the biennium 2022–23 and on preparatory work for sectoral meetings in future biennia. These recommendations will be submitted to the Governing Body at its 341st session in March 2021.

  7. ILO releases checklist to protect the health and safety of miners during COVID-19

    14 October 2020

    The mining industry plays a critical role in global supply chains and economic development. To support the sector during the #COVID-19 pandemic, the ILO has released a checklist of sector-specific guidance to keep miners and mines safe.

  8. Convening actors to reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (CARING GOLD MINING PROJECT): Fact sheet

    23 September 2019

    The CARING Gold Mining Project’s overall goal is to increase to address child labour and working conditions issues in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) globally and in Ghana and the Philippines, its pilot countries. It does so by pursuing four outcomes, the first three to be carried out in the pilot countries and the fourth one on a global scale.

  9. Points of consensus of the Global Dialogue Forum on Decent Work in the management of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) - Geneva, 09-11 April 2019

    25 April 2019

  10. ILO’s first ever meeting on e-waste adopts Points of Consensus to promote decent work in the sector

    11 April 2019

    Rapid technological advances and a rising demand for electronics has been accompanied by a flood of e-waste. It is a toxic stream of waste that poses a threat to human health, decent work and the environment. E-waste can also be seen as a resource in the emerging circular electronic economy with a large untapped potential. Better management of e-waste is crucial for advancing decent work and shaping a brighter future for all.