Webinars and other events

Webinar: Talent with Disabilities: Bridging the Skills Gap Through Inclusive Apprenticeships and Work-Based Learning (WBL) for People with Disabilities

The International Organisation of Employers (IOE), together with the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) and the ILO Global Business Disability Network (GBDN), held the webinar "Talent with Disabilities: Bridging the Skills Gap Through Inclusive...

Business leadership on disability rights as human rights, 3rd African BHR Forum

The session "Business leadership on disability rights as human rights", at the 3rd African Business and Human Rights Forum, on 8 October, highlighted the human rights generally, and the labour rights specifically, of persons with disabilities as a...

Webinar: Global Disability Summit: a unique opportunity for business to engage

The Global Disability Summit (GDS) is a unique worldwide mechanism that improves the lives of persons with disabilities, especially from the Global South. Created in 2017, GDS convenes global, regional, and national stakeholders, including...

Webinar: Procurement Power: What about Disability?

How can organisations optimise procurement’s vital strategic business, economic and societal impact to the benefit of business and the global community of persons with disabilities?

COSP17 side event "Businesses driving a sustainable future: disability-inclusive employment and ESG"

The ILO Global Business and Disability Network's side event "Businesses driving a sustainable future: disability-inclusive employment and ESG" at the 17th Conference of States Parties (COSP17) to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...

Webinar: Disability-inclusive Employment: Corporate Nominations for #ZeroCall25

The ILO Global Business and Disability Network (GBDN) is partnering with the Zero Project to encourage companies to nominate their good practices in the area of disability-inclusive employment. The Zero Project focuses on researching and advancing...

Webinar: Unleashing potential: reasonable accommodations at work

Reasonable adjustments at the workplace, often times also referred to as reasonable accommodations, may include adaptations to the job, including modification of machinery and equipment and/or of an employee’s job content, working time and work...

Webinar: Leave no one offline: engaging companies on digital accessibility

Digital accessibility, not as a compliance measure, but as a "human-first" based digital inclusion transformation initiative, is at the beginning of its journey. If companies can establish digital accessibility as a foundational pillar to their...

Webinar: Disability in the 2020s - a digital decade for an inclusive World of Work

As part of the Academy on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work – organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO) – the session "Disability in the 2020s: A digital decade for an...

Webinar: The power of small: disability employment in SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) provide more than two thirds of jobs worldwide and account for the majority of new employment. There are an estimated 1.3 billion people with disabilities in the world, with most of them being in working...