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   © European Union 2013

   Social investment package

   ILO Office welcomes European Commission's social investment package

   18 March 2013

   The ILO Director-General, on mission in Dublin, welcomed the opportunity offered by the Social investment package to bring people back to the labour market and to foster competitiveness and social inclusion.

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   Ethiopia and ILO sign an MOU to support Domestic Migrant Workers to the Gulf States, Lebanon and Sudan

   14 March 2013

   The Government of Ethiopia and the International Labour Organization (ILO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Addis Ababa to implement an EU-funded project designed to develop a tripartite framework for the support and protection of Ethiopian women domestic migrant workers to the GCC States (Gulf Cooperation Council which includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait), Lebanon and Sudan.

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   Photo contest: "Migrant domestic workers in Europe"

   13 March 2013

   Participate in this unique ILO photo contest funded by the European Union.

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   ILO Director-general visits the Netherlands

   Guy Ryder to address Dutch conference on labour and industrial relations

   08 March 2013

   The ILO Director-General Guy Ryder will address the "SZW Congres 2013", a conference organized by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment on 25 March 2013.

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   ILO Director-General addressed the Eurofound Forum 2013

   07 March 2013

   The ILO Director-General Guy Ryder went on an official visit to Ireland, which holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU. Attending the Eurofound Forum in Dublin, he welcomed the EU's social investment package. He also stressed that "world unemployment is still on the rise, and the feeling of the need to act and change is very much on our mind".

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   6-28th March

   ILO Governing Body to discuss global crisis response

   05 March 2013

   Executive body meets to decide ILO policy, programme and budget.

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   Youth guarantee

   Council agreement on youth guarantee in line with ILO positions

   28 February 2013

   On 28 February 2013, the Council of the EU, chaired by Ireland, reached a political agreement on a recommendation addressed to the Member States to provide for youth guarantee schemes.

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   France ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

   28 February 2013

   France is the 35th ILO Member State and the 13th EU member State to ratify this landmark Convention.