Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)

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.

Highlights

ACTRAV INFO: December 2012

ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No 22 December 2012.
Call for Papers-Trade Unions and Cooperatives: Challenges and Perspectives (Deadline: 2 February 2013)

The papers would ideally show how trade unions have been using the cooperative model and working with the cooperative movement to achieve economic, social and political objectives.
Interview with Dan Cunniah, Director of ACTRAV

After the inauguration of the new Director General of the ILO, Guy Ryder, what are the challenges of the Bureau for Workers' Activities(ACTRAV)? Explanations with Dan Cunniah, Director of ACTRAV ...
Make poverty history-Trade Union manual on the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the main development framework for the international community since the year 2000. These goals have provided a framework for focused intergovernmental action to fight extreme poverty.
Labour in the Global South: Challenges and alternatives for workers

“Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide.” −Edward Webster, University of Kassel, Germany, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.