I-news

2006 

• Dutch government supports Decent Work Country Programmes
  30 May 2006 - The Government of the Netherlands will provide 38.5 million dollars to support the launch of the ILO Decent Work Country Programme strategy over the next four years.
• Nepalese workers leader thanks ILO for support
  25 April 2006 - The worker representative of Nepal on the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO), Laxman Basnet, discussed the recent developments in Nepal with ILO Director-General Juan Somavia today.
• Government, business, labour leaders call for new effort on migration
  07 April 2006 -
• UN agencies coordinate action against HIV/AIDS
  07 April 2006 -
• Labour migration on the agenda of Africa-Europe dialogue
  05 April 2006 -

2005 

• New impetus for co-ordinated approach to ship recycling through new legally binding instrument Issued jointly by IMO, ILO and the Basel Convention
  15 December 2005 -
• UN agencies seek a coordinated approach to ship scrapping
  09 December 2005 -
• West African government, employer and labour leaders adopt new "roadmap" for migrant labour
  01 August 2005 -
• ILO-EU Conference calls for the strengthening of labour inspection services
  31 March 2005 - The ILO-EU Conference on labour inspection 9-11 March 2005 in Luxembourg, noted that globalization requires more creative holistic approaches and presses for economic and social reforms, which can only be successful with strong, competent and independent labour inspectorates.
• New seafarers ID cards closer to reality, says ILO Progress in achieving global interoperability in seafarers' identification
  24 March 2005 - The International Labour Organization (ILO) announces an important step forward in ensuring the proper functioning of the biometric element of its new "biometric" identity verification system for seafarers. The tests carried out in this regard could also contribute to advances in achieving biometric interoperability in other areas.