News and articles
2012
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Press release
New ILO Regional Director for Asia Pacific takes up post
16 October 2012, Bangkok, Thailand
Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto (Japan) took up his post as Regional Director of the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok, on 16 October 2012. Until 2011, Mr Uramoto served as the Deputy to the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria. He spent 27 years with UNICEF, and his last position was as Director of the UNICEF Office for Japan and the Republic of Korea. He has also worked in New York and in the former Republic of Yugoslavia (Croatia), India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Timor-Leste and Sudan.
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Press release
Meeting looks at system to deal with migrant workers' recruitment problems
15 October 2012, Bangkok, Thailand
A national consultation on strengthening migrant workers’ access to complaints channels and ability to get grievances about their recruitment process dealt with was organized by the ILO and the Ministry of Labour’s Department of Employment (DOE).
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Press release
Planning for more and better jobs in the construction sector in Indonesia
10 October 2012, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration hosts a National Workshop at Kementerian Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi headquarters in Jakarta on 10th of October to discuss and review the achievements of the Government of Indonesia - International Labour Organization’s Local Resource Based (LRB) infrastructure works programmes undertaken in Aceh and Nias over the past seven years.
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Press release
New ILO project to improve labour migration in ASEAN countries
10 October 2012, Bangkok, Thailand
A new project to help migrant workers who travel across international borders in the ASEAN region is being launched by the ILO and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
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Press release
Viet Nam’s new labour laws to improve labour market and industrial relations
24 September 2012,
A conference entitled “Introduction of the Labour Code and Trade Union Law: Opportunities and Challenges” was organised in Ha Noi today by the National Assembly’s Social Committee, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam to give social partners and the public an insight into the important changes brought about by the amended laws.
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Press release
$4.5m employment assistance projects announced at first National Decent Work Committee
24 September 2012,
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam today announced its new assistance projects worth US$4.56 million at the first meeting of the new Vietnam Decent Work Country Programme Steering Committee in Ha Noi.
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Freedom of association
ILO mission to Fiji aborted
19 September 2012,
An ILO mission on freedom of association obliged to depart from Fiji without having completed its mandate.
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Press release
ILO mission to Fiji aborted
19 September 2012,
An ILO direct contacts mission on freedom of association has been obliged to depart from Fiji without having completed its mandate.
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Safety at work
ILO announces action plan to boost workplace safety in Pakistani factories
17 September 2012,
ILO sets out a series of short and medium-term measures in response to the deaths of more than 260 workers in a garment factory in Karachi.
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Press release
Launch of the Indonesia Decent Work Country Programme 2012 - 2015
17 September 2012, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) for Indonesia 2012 – 2015 will be launched on Wednesday, 19 September 2012, at the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, Jakarta. The DWCP 2012-15 serves as the mid-term ILO programming framework for the work of ILO in Indonesia with full engagements of Government, workers’ and employers’ organization as the tripartite constituents of the ILO.