The Mandate of the Bureau for Workers' Activities is to strengthen representative, independent and democratic trade unions in all countries, to enable them to play their role effectively in protecting workers' rights and interests and in providing effective services to their members at national and international levels, and to promote the ratification and implementation of ILO Conventions.
ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations
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Export Processing Zones (EPZs)
ACTRAV provides assistance to trade unions in their efforts to organize, to defend workers’ rights and to promote decent work in these zones.
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Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
What's new
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Workers’ rights
Trade union leaders in the Asia Pacific region to consider strategies to halt weaking of union rights
24 June 2014
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321st Session of the Governing Body
Luc Cortebeeck, workers’ delegate of Belgium, re-elected as vice-president of the ILO Governing Body
13 June 2014
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103rd Session of the International Labour Conference
Tripartite information session on « Ouagadougou +10 »: Opening Remarks by Francis ATWOLI (Kenya), African Workers'Spokesperson
05 June 2014
Key resources
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Newsletter
ACTRAV INFO: June 2014
27 June 2014ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No. 39, June 2014
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International Journal of Labour Research
The Challenge of Inequality
23 June 2014This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research addresses one of the central challenges of our times: that of overcoming growing inequalities in our societies. This trend, now well-recognized, is worrying not only for its economic impact, but as importantly because it threatens the very social fabric of our societies and may in time become a threat to democracy itself.
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Americas
Process of Trade Union Self-Reform in the Americas: Advances of the Working Group on Trade Union Self-Reform (WGSR) between 2010-2013
27 February 2014The Working Group on Trade Union Self-Reform (WGSR) was created in April 2009 with support of the FSAL project (Strengthening Trade Unions to meet the new challenges of integration in Latin America) - executed in the framework of ACTRAV - and more recently with support of the ACTRAV/Norway Project “Trade Unions for Social Justice”.
Multimedia
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103rd International Labour Conference
Interview with Sam Gurney, Governing Body Workers'Spokesperson (MNE Segment)
22 July 2014
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Post 2015 development agenda
Post 2015 Development Agenda: Statement by Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General
01 July 2014
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Post 2015 development agenda
Post 2015 Development Agenda: Statement by John Kakonge, Ambassador of Kenya
01 July 2014
Meetings and events
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Trade Union Strategy Workshop on the Post 2015 development agenda
26 - 27 June 2014, Geneva
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103rd Session of the International Labour Conference
28 May - 12 June 2014, Geneva
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Subscribe to ACTRAV INFO
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Inequality
Inequality a drag on economic growth
9 July 2014 -
HIV/AIDS
The benefits of social protection for those living with HIV
1 July 2014
