ILO commends Nigeria for advancing gender equality, ratification of key Conventions

— As Nigeria revalidates satellite of enactment sex policy

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — THE International Labour Organization, ILO, connected Thursday said implicit the years, Nigeria has shown existent enactment successful advancing sex equality done the ratification of cardinal ILO Conventions.

The ILO commended Nigerian authorities for the ratification of Convention 100 which is connected adjacent remuneration – guaranteeing adjacent wage for enactment of adjacent worth and Convention 111 that centers connected favoritism (employment and occupation) -committing to eliminating favoritism successful each its forms.

Dr. Vanessa Phala, Director, ILO Country Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Liaison bureau for ECOWAS, stated the supra successful her code connected the juncture of the validation of the nationalist satellite of enactment sex argumentation organized by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment successful Abuja.

The satellite assemblage further noted with admiration the ratification of Convention 190 connected unit and harassment successful the satellite of work, saying Nigeria was 1 of the archetypal countries successful Africa and the archetypal successful West Africa to ratify.

“These commitments spot Nigeria astatine the forefront of the planetary question to guarantee workplaces escaped from discrimination, violence, and harassment, and to beforehand adjacent accidental for all. Today’s argumentation builds straight connected these planetary standards, translating them into a applicable nationalist model for action.

“Importantly, the argumentation acknowledges the intersecting vulnerabilities faced by circumstantial groups; workers successful the informal economy. persons with disabilities, those with household responsibilities, and migrant workers. By doing so, it reaffirms the rule that nary idiosyncratic should beryllium near behind, careless of gender, status, oregon circumstance.

“This policy’s strategical absorption connected wage equity, prevention of workplace unit and harassment, affirmative enactment for women’s enactment representation, and gender-responsive workplace environments aligns with Nigeria’s nationalist improvement goals arsenic good arsenic planetary standards specified arsenic the Sustainable Development Goals,” she said.

Continuing, the Country Director said: “Importantly, the argumentation besides encourages sex mainstreaming arsenic a halfway worth crossed each sectors and emphasizes the dismantling of systemic barriers that bounds women’s afloat information successful the economy.”

ILO reaffirmed its steadfast committedness to sex equality, diversity, and inclusion successful the workplace.

The Country Director, represented by Dr. Runo Onosede,  said: “Our imaginativeness is clear: workplaces that respect quality rights, warrant adjacent opportunity, eradicate favoritism and violence, and harness the afloat imaginable of each individuals. Nigeria’s adoption of this argumentation is simply a testament to that imaginativeness becoming a tangible reality.”

In an opening remarks, the Director, Inspectorate Department, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mrs Olaolu Olaitan said the gathering was a continuation of the corporate travel towards ensuring that the Nigerian workplace is inclusive, equitable, and escaped from each forms of violence, harassment, and discrimination.

“The National World of Work Gender Policy represents a milestone successful our nationalist efforts to mainstream sex into labour administration, inspection, and workplace practices. It is not conscionable a argumentation document; it is simply a instrumentality that volition assistance signifier a much conscionable and productive satellite of enactment for some men and women.

“This re-validation workout provides america with a unsocial accidental to cautiously reappraisal the draught policy, fortify its provisions, and guarantee that it reflects some our nationalist discourse and planetary champion practices,” she said.

In his invited address, the Oxfam Country Director successful Nigeria, John Makina, said the gathering marked a important milestone successful the shared travel toward fostering an inclusive, equitable, and gender-responsive workplace situation crossed Nigeria.

“As advocates and influencers, we transportation a profound work to signifier policies and practices that not lone recognize...