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ACTRAV Info sheets are communiqués on positions taken by the International Labour Office affecting workers and on the positions of the Workers' Group within the organization's various forums.

2005
- Many workers suffer from hunger and poverty - FAO/ILO/IUF report - [pdf 82 KB]
  06 October 2005 - Many of the 450 million agricultural workers live in dire conditions
- Global labour leaders call for release of Nepalese trade unionists - [pdf 82 KB]
  22 March 2005 - A group of top trade union leaders who are taking part in a session of the Governing Body of the tripartite UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) went today to the Nepalese mission to the UN in Geneva to express their concern about the situation in Nepal and call for the release of detained trade unionists.
- 28 April 10th International Commemoration Day (ICD) For Dead And Injured Workers World Day for Safety and Health at Work - [pdf 109 KB]
  22 March 2005 - Employing half of the world's labour force,modernday agriculture is anything but idyllic.Along with mining and construction,it is one of the three most hazardous sectors in industrialized and developing countries alike. Of an estimated 355,000 fatal work accidents per year worldwide, more than half are in agriculture. ...
2004
- Advancing fair Globalization - [pdf 257 KB]
  09 October 2004 - Heidemarie Wieczoreck Zeul, the German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development and Sir Leroy Trotman, the spokesperson of the Workers Group of the ILO welcomed an international group of students,trade unions and academics to the inauguration of the Masters Course on "Labour Policies and Globalisation" earlier this week in Kassel, Germany
- India: Hope Dawns as Women Beat Poverty - [pdf 269 KB]
  01 July 2004 - In the villages of India, women are organizing against poverty. With the backing of a team from the ILO Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)hundreds of "self-help groups" have been set up. These groups now ensure a trade union presence in some of the most remote areas of southern India.
2003
- Global unions, Amnesty international: "No to impunity for the murderers of trade unionists in Colombia" - [pdf 85 KB]
  10 December 2003 - Colombia holds the grim record for the highest level of violence against labour leaders with 184 trade unionists killed in 2002 and 64 during 2003. Yet, according to testimonies by Global Unions and Amnesty International representatives, most of these murders have gone unpunished. ...
- December 10: Trade Union Rights are Human Rights - [pdf 96 KB]
  09 December 2003 - Trade union organisations worldwide are using this year's Human Rights Day to remind the international community that workers' rights are human rights, but that these rights are still denied to millions of workers. Abuses range from restrictive legislation to the brutal repression and even murder of union activists.
- ILO Acts Against Violations of Workers' Rights in Belarus - [pdf 72 KB]
  19 November 2003 - The worker members of the Governing Body of the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) have welcomed the decision (today 19 November 2003) to
- World Food Day 16 October 2003: The ILO and decent work in agriculture - [pdf 93 KB]
  16 October 2003 - Today,the number of people working in agriculture is put at more than 1.3 billion. They make up half of the world's active population.They feed the world, but what is their fate Unenviable,according to a whole series of first-hand accounts at the symposium on decent work in agriculture, held recently under the auspices of the International Labour Organization in Geneva.
- Workers call on the ILO to provide urgent rehabilitation support to Iraq - [pdf 69 KB]
  09 June 2003 - Workers'delegates attending this year's International Labour Conference in Geneva have called on the UN's International Labour Organization(ILO) urgently to send a needs assessment mission to Iraq to determine what forms of technical support and assistance the ILO can properly provide in the rehabilitation and reconstruction programme.