Recent events and campaigns
November 2003
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24 November - 3 December 2003, Genève, Switzerland
Seventeenth International Conference on Labour Statisticians
The conference adopted revised international statistical standards on consumer price indices and household income and expenditure statistics. It also adopted a resolution requestin the ILO to take steps to updated ISCO-88 by 2007. It endorsed guidelines for the measurement of information employment and a checklist of good practices for mainstreaming gender in labour statistics, and discussed other topics including the measurement of decent work and working time. The report will be available on the Bureau of Statistics' web site in E, F and S after submission to the GB in March 2004.
August 2003
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20 August 2003, Geneva Stadium, Switzerland
Switzerland vs. France
Red Card Campaign at Geneva Stadium - [pdf 26 KB]
A new edition of Red Card Campaign against child labour will be launched
on the occasion of the Football match Switzerland vs France at the Geneva Stadium on 20 August 03, with the support of the Swiss Football Association and the French Federation of football.
June 2003
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12 June 2003, Geneva, Switzerland
World Day Against Child Labour 2003
Child trafficking is one of the worst forms of child labour. Although no precise figures exist, an estimated 1.2 million children - both boys and girls - are trafficked each year into exploitative work in agriculture, mining, factories, armed conflict or commercial sex work. ...
December 2002
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18 December 2002, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid
Red Card and Real Madrid - [pdf 42 KB]
The Real Madrid football club and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are teaming up to raise a "Red card" to the child labour in its worst forms - a practice that traps one of every eight children - or some 180 million worldwide - in exploitative, often dangerous work.
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10-13 December 2002, Lima, Peru
Fifteenth American Regional Meeting
The International Labour Organization (ILO) held its XVth Regional Meeting of ILO member States in the Americas to seek a "productive solution" to the region's labour troubles, at a time when the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a situation marked by a rise in unemployment, an increase in poverty and a pronounced decline in social and labour conditions.
June 2002
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12 June 2002, ILO Geneva, Switzerland
World Day Against Child Labour
The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the first World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 as a way to highlight the plight of working children. Observed on June 12th, the day is intended to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labour.
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1 June 2002, Mali
Africa Cup of Nations - [pdf 62 KB]
Launch of the Red Card to Child Labour campaign
August 2001
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28-31 August 2001, Bangkok, Thailand
Thirteenth Asian Regional Meeting
In its first regional meeting since the high drama of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 – grouping 39 member States – the ILO’s government, employer and worker constituents discussed a plan for ensuring social protection, rights at work and job creation, as a way of applying its global strategy for decent work to the region’s people and helping them weather global economic turmoil.
December 2000
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12-15 December 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
6th ILO European Regional Meeting
The meeting came at a time of improving labour market performance in Europe. The ILO report pointed out, however, that "the persistence of high rates of unemployment in many Western European countries continues to be a fundamental economic and social problem and is still an important source of poverty. ...
March 2000
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24 March 2000, Saint Pétersbourg, Russian Federation
Decent work for women - [pdf 167 KB]
an ILO proposal to accelerate the implementation of the Beijing Platform for action
December 1999
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8-11 December 1999, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Ninth African Regional Meeting
Among the Conclusions of the Meeting, the delegates stressed their commitment to the elimination of child labour, beginning with its worst forms. They stated that "the elimination of child labour in Africa represents a real challenge. To be African is first of all to respect and prepare the destiny of Africa through its children."
August 1999
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24-27 August 1999, Lima, Peru
Fourteenth American Regional Meeting
The delegates at meeting agreed that "finding decent work constitutes one of the most immediate priorities for the people in the Americas". ...
October 1998
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6-15 October 1998, Geneva, Switzerland
16th International Conference of Labour Statisticians
The Conference adopted three resolutions concerning the measurement of underemployment and inadequate employment situations, the measurement of employment-related income, and concerning statistics of occupational injuries resulting from
occupational accidents.
December 1997
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9-11 December 1997, Bangkok, Thailand
Twelfth Asian Regional Meeting
The International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a series of wide-ranging Conclusions in which governments, and representatives of workers' and employers' organizations urged the ILO to "vigorously pursue" its opportunities to make an "essential contribution" to the economic and social development of Asia.