ILO launched cooperation program with Moldova on decent labor

The International Labor Organization (ILO) launched in Chisinau a cooperation program with the R. of Moldova addressing decent labor, provided for 2006-2007. The program stipulates promoting national policy via creation of workplaces and reduction of extreme poverty, increase access to quality social services, especially for underprivileged groups, promotion and protection of human rights. According to deputy minister of Economy and Commerce, Sergiu Sainciuc, within the frameworks of the cooperation program, the R. of Moldova runs several projects on eliminating child labor, labor force migration, providing legal status to citizens who work abroad (meaning authorization for those who already work abroad and not for those who intend to leave Moldova). According to the cited source, within the frameworks of a project concerning the traffic in human beings, specialized centers are offering psychological, social and professional rehabilitation services to trafficked persons, they being taught how to work out a business plan and even offered grants for launching a business. According to Sainciuc, the initiation of a new project is scheduled for December, on including persons infected with HIV/AIDS into the work sphere. Over the past years, ILO provided and continues to provide assistance in priority domains concerning child labor, prevention of most severe forms of child labor, including trafficking in persons; policies of labor force employment and migration; hygiene and security of labor; social dialogue in the agricultural sector. The results of this assistance are the public awareness concerning these problems, creation of an institutional system of monitoring/consolidation of social partners’ capacities for more active participation in drafting policies and reforms. To date, the R. of Moldova ratified 41 conventions of the ILO.