ILO Century Project
ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations
Century Project

  1. Featured publication

    Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and beyond

    Focusing on the ILO, this collection brings together a variety of new scholarship by a group of highly qualified and internationally renowned scholars in the field of global history and the history of international organizations.

  2. ILO Century Game

    In 2019 the ILO will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Although we know the ILO has a unique and long history, how much do we really know about its highlights and crises, innovations and changes, opportunities and setbacks? Test your knowledge and learn fascinating facts about ILO history at the click of a mouse. Want to contribute? Send us your questions.

  3. The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice

ILO Century Project

ILO Century Project

The ILO and its government, employer and worker constituents have a rich experience of social dialogue, setting and supervising international labour standards, promoting employment, social protection and fair conditions of work, and international cooperation for social justice.Towards the ILO Centenary in 2019, the aim of the Century Project is to illuminate the history of the world of work and its actors. Building on the experience of the past, it endeavours to forge alliances with partners around the world in the pursuit of social justice for all.

  1. April 28 is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
    Read more about Convention 155 – Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 which is linked to this day.

  1. Inaugural Edward Phelan Lecture by Guy Ryder
    Symposium
    14 February 2013
    The National University of Ireland, Dublin

    The ILO Director-General, Mr Guy Ryder, presented the inaugural Edward Phelan lecture entitled "Lessons from the Irish internationalist who organized social justice" . The life and achievements of the ILO's first staff member and fourth Director-General significantly marked the Organization's development in ways that are very much present today.

    1. “Lessons from the Irish internationalist who organized social justice”

  2. Roundtable series with IAS Nantes: “The Humanization of Labour since 1919”
    Conference
    8-10 November 2012
    Humbold University, Berlin, Germany

    The Series' second roundtable: “Safety at Work and job security” was organized in collaboration with the International Research Center "Re: Work" at the Humboldt University. Watch the interviews with participants (in English and French).

  1. Women's ILO: Transnational networks, working conditions and gender equality
    Call for Papers, deadline 1 May 2013
    Workshop
    6-7 December 2012
    University of Geneva/ILO, Geneva, Switzerland

    What role have women’s networks played inside and outside the ILO? How can we analyse the interaction between the national and the international levels in the struggle to promote labour standards for women? And finally, how does the ILO’s concern for domestic care and the informal economy change the debate on women’s work? Participants' video statements (2012 workshop).

  2. ILO Lisbon celebrates its 10-year anniversary

    ILO Lisbon celebrates its 10-year anniversary with an address to the Portuguese Parliament by Mr Paulo Bárcia, former Director of ILO’s Human Resources Development Department and current Chief of Cabinet at ILO headquarters.

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