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.
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Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
Highlights
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Achieving Decent Work for Domestic Workers
The adoption by the International Labour Conference, on 16 June 2011, of ILO Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 on decent work for domestic workers, was an historic step in the struggle for social justice worldwide. It was the culmination of several decades of domestic workers’ organizations and trade unions campaigning to end exclusion, and gain recognition for the rights of domestic workers.
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ACTRAV INFO: May 2012
ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 15 May 2012.
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The ILO MNEs Declaration: What's in it for Workers?
Now is the time to reassert the important role that international labour standards can play in promoting socially responsible economic development.A key to this development is the recognition by governments and employers that enterprises must act in a responsible way in relation to their labour practices
