Press releases

January 2002 

• ILO waves "red card" at child labour
  15 January 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) will launch its "Red Card to Child Labour" campaign this week to coincide with the start of the 2002 African Cup of Nations that begins Saturday (Jan. 19) in Bamako, Mali.

December 2001 

• East European Healthcare in Crisis
  10 December 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The grim economic situation in Eastern Europe is taking a heavy toll on state-run health services, creating a severe "crisis in care" for an impoverished population left increasingly vulnerable to chronic illness, worsening epidemics of HIV/AIDS and other diseases and ultimately, reduced life expectancy.
• Recruitment practices pose problems for construction industry
  06 December 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Decades of flexible labour market policies have had such a profound impact on income, conditions of work and employment security in the construction sector that the industry is having great difficulty attracting new recruits, according to a report prepared for an International Labour Office (ILO) meeting (10-15 December 2001) of industry experts.

November 2001 

• ILO Code seeks to improve job prospects for the disabled
  30 November 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The world will observe the International Day of Disabled Persons on Monday (December 3) and your attention is drawn to the International Labour Office (ILO) Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace, adopted by the Governing Body at its recent meeting (November 1-16 2001) in Geneva.
• First ILO Report on Cambodian Garment Industry
  30 November 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) said today that its initial probe of working conditions in Cambodian garment factories found no evidence of child labour, forced labour or sexual harassment but did discover problems in some plants with over-time payments, hours of work and anti-union discrimination.
• Summary: ILO Governing Body's 282nd session targets fundamental rights
  20 November 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) Governing Body ended its 282nd session with a renewed commitment to eradicating forced labour in Myanmar, a decision to set up a World Commission of 18 eminent persons to examine the social impact of globalization and a call to end grave and serious violations of freedom of association in Belarus and Venezuela.
• ILO team finds limited impact of new legislation against forced labour in Myanmar; Suggests action for further progress
  07 November 2001 - GENEVA ( ILO News) - Despite new legislation introduced just one year ago, forced labour still exists in Myanmar, according to a report from an International Labour Office (ILO) High-Level Team.
• Developing countries miss out in trade globalization
  06 November 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Many developing countries remain marginalized from the world economy and are missing out on any significant benefits from the globalization of trade, according to a paper prepared for the International Labour Office's Governing Body, which is conducting its 282 nd session in Geneva.
• ILO Employment Forum Calls For Global Jobs Rescue Package
  03 November 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - A Global Employment Forum held at the International Labour Organization (ILO), citing the need for urgency in dealing with a growing worldwide jobs crisis, today launched a 10-point plan aimed at reversing mounting unemployment and poverty due to the dual impacts of global recession and the terrorist attacks of September 11.
• Nobel Laureate Calls for Decent Work,Basic Labour Rights
  02 November 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The Nobel economics laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University today urged world political and economic leaders to back the International Labour Organization (ILO) goals of "decent work, full employment and better working conditions" and said development requires "basic labour rights."
• UN Secretary-General, ILO Chief urge global jobs alliance
  01 November 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Faced with a mounting toll of job losses and poverty - the vast majority in the developing world - the International Labour Organization (ILO) today opened a three-day employment summit aimed at tackling looming recession and the economic fallout of September 11.

October 2001 

• ILO to address global jobs crisis
  31 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization will bring together more than 700 world political and economic leaders in Geneva Thursday to tackle what Director-General Juan Somavia calls the "biggest threats to human security affecting the largest number of people - rising unemployment and poverty. ...
• ILO says aviation recovery from 11 September to take "years"
  30 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) today called for a series of operational measures to rebuild the devastated aviation sector, saying it would take "years" for the industry to return to its pre-September 11 th levels.
• ILO meeting on hotels, tourism endorses action to combat crisis
  26 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Experts of governments, employers and workers from the hotel and tourism sector ended a two-day meeting today at International Labour Organization (ILO) Headquarters by agreeing on a list of operational measures to overcome the crisis affecting the industry since September 11.
• ILO Global Employment Forum Media Arrangements
  26 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) will host the Global Employment Forum at its Headquarters from 1-3 November, 2001.
• International Labour Organization formally joins UNAIDS
  25 October 2001 - GENEVA (Issued jointly by ILO and UNAIDS) - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today announced that the International Labour Organization (ILO) has formalized its commitment to fighting the global HIV/AIDS epidemic by becoming a Cosponsor of UNAIDS.
• Hotel and tourism economy faces major jobs loss
  24 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Nearly 9 million workers in the global hotel and tourism economy, already suffering from an economic downturn, may lose their jobs in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks on the United States, according to a new report prepared for the International Labour Office (ILO).
• ILO calls crisis meetings on tourism and aviation industries
  19 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) is to convene a series of crisis meetings here next week to assess the economic turbulence buffeting the tourism and aviation sectors in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
• ILO Global Employment Forum faces up to shrinking job markets
  19 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The state of the world labour market, reeling from the economic fallout of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, will be the prime topic at a major Forum on employment, which will take place at the Geneva Headquarters of the International Labour Organization on November 1-3.
• ILO Chief flying to Canada for regional labour talks
  12 October 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO) Juan Somavia flies to Ottawa on 14 October to urge Canada and other countries of the Americas to confront growing human insecurity in the work place, caused by the worldwide economic slowdown.