Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
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Comment
Thank you Greece
Comment by Maria Helena ANDRE, Director of ILO Bureau for Workers'Activities (ACTRAV)
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Interview
Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of ITUC: What challenges for Unions in 2015?
In 2015, the international trade union movement will face several challenges. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), expresses her views on these challenges -- in particular the right to strike and Global Supply Chains that will be discussed at the ILO in 2015 and 2016.
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Export Processing Zones
Claude Akpokavie, Senior ILO Adviser: “Engaging in policy debates and organizing workers, are two key challenges faced by unions in Export processing zones”
The Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ILO-ACTRAV) has just published a Trade Union Manual on Export Processing Zones (EPZ).In this interview, Claude Akpokavie, ACTRAV’s focal point on EPZ explains the main lessons highlighted in the manual and the role of trade unions in EPZ.
What's new
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Interview
Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of ITUC: What challenges for Unions in 2015?
26 January 2015
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World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015
Unemployment on the rise over next five years as inequality persists
20 January 2015
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Export Processing Zones
Claude Akpokavie, Senior ILO Adviser:“Engaging in policy debates and organizing workers, are two key challenges faced by unions in Export processing zones”
09 January 2015
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Domestic workers
Finland ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189)
08 January 2015
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© Steve McCurry 2015
No one should work this way
Ending the abuse of domestic workers in Asia
22 December 2014
Key resources
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Newsletter
ACTRAV INFO: December 2014
31 December 2014
ACTRAV INFO, A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), No. 45, December 2014.
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Publication
Trade Union Manual on Export Processing Zones
17 November 2014
The ILO Bureau for Workers ‘Activities (ACTRAV) launched a new publication on Export processing zones (EPZ). The manual for Trade Unions responds to two challenges: Engaging in the policy debate with governments on EPZ policy and organizing workers.
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International Journal of Labour Research
The Challenge of Inequality
23 June 2014
This 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.
Multimedia
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World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015
The report in short: World Employment & Social Outlook Trends 2015
20 January 2015
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World AIDS Day
Olympic Gold Medallist Greg Louganis marks World AIDS Day 2014
01 December 2014
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322nd session of the ILO Governing Body
Singapore: What challenges for tripartism and application of the ILO core Conventions?
18 November 2014
Meetings and events
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Application for Global Labour University Programmes in Germany, India and USA : Final Deadline
15 January - 1 March 2015, Berlin, New-Delhi, Pennsylvania
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Trade Union Regional Workshop on Capacity Building of Domestic Workers Organizations and Elimination of Child Domestic Work
15 - 17 December 2014, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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India: Campaign on the Promotion of Ratification of ILO Core Conventions on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
25 - 28 November 2014, Guwahati, India