Recent events and campaigns

May 2009 

• 6-8 May 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Asia Pacific Conference on "Right to Form Unions and Right to Collective Bargaining: A Campaign for Ratification and Implementation of ILO Conventions 87 and 98"
  The ILO Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and the Protection of Right to Organise and Convention 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining are the basis to provide and provide for rights and protection against abuse and violation of these rights. Most of the governments in the region have not ratified either or both the Conventions. ...

April 2009 

• 28 April 2009, Global
  World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2009
  World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work.
• 28 April 2009, Geneva
  The programme of the event - [pdf 3194 KB]
• 24 April 2009, Kampala
  Launch of the IPEC Project for Uganda "Support for the preparatory phase of the Uganda National Action Plan for the Elimination of child Labour" (SNAP)
  SNAP, a new four-year project funded by the US Department of Labor, will assist the Ugandan government to further strengthen the country's legal, policy, institutional and social foundations for large-scale action against the worst forms of child labour. Interventions are being designed to tap into components of the Ugandan Decent Work Country Programme as well as opportunities offered by other ongoing political, social and economic development programmes and policies. The project launch will take place on 24 April 2009 in Kampala to coincide with the 90th Anniversary Celebrations of the ILO and is being organized with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, the Federation of Uganda Employers, and two workers' organizations - the National Organization of Trade Unions and the Central Organization of Free Trade Unions.
• 1-2 April 2009, Kingston, Jamaica
  ILO Tripartite Caribbean Conference - Promoting Human Prosperity beyond the Global Financial Crisis: Seeking Sustainable Solutions through Social Dialogue
  Ministers of Labour and other high-level representatives of the Ministries of Labour, and of employers’ and workers’ organizations of the English-and Dutch-speaking Caribbean will meet at an International Labour Organization Tripartite Caribbean Conference on the global financial crisis on 1-2 April 2009 in Kingston, Jamaica.
• 16-17 April 2009, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  Regional Tripartite Workshop on Improving Safety and Health in Mining for Selected Asian Countries
  With basis on discussions of the Sectoral and Technical Meetings Committee (STM), the Governing Body, at its March 2008 Session, decided that a tripartite workshop be held on improving safety and health in mining for selected Asian countries.

March 2009 

• 31 March - 2 April 2009, Rome, Italy
  Gender and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty
• 5-26 March 2009, ILO Geneva
  Tripartite Technical Workshop on the Impact of the Food Price Crisis on Decent Work
• 6 March 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  ILO celebration of International Women's Day 2009 - 6 March 2009
  Work and family: The way to care is to share!

February 2009 

• 24-25 February 2009, ILO Geneva
  Global Dialogue Forum on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Finance Sector Workers
• 20 February - 30 April 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  World Day of Social Justice
  The first World Day of Social Justice, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly last November, will be observed on Friday 20 February 2009. On this occasion, the ILO will organize a panel discussion in Geneva on “The Crisis: Threat or Opportunity for Social Justice?”
• 18-20 February 2009, Manila, Philippines
  High-Level Regional Forum on Responding to the Economic Crisis - Coherent Policies for Growth, Employment and Decent Work in Asia and the Pacific
  In coping with the current crisis, most countries in Asia and the Pacific benefit from sound financial institutions and a record of sustained growth and macroeconomic stability. Poverty however remains widespread and systems of social protection are fragile and underdeveloped. ...
• 9-13 February 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
  8th European Regional Meeting
  The 8th European Regional Meeting (ERM) will provide the space for governments and worker and employer organisations, from across Europe and Central Asia, to come together and shape the ILO's future strategy in the European and Central Asian member countries of the ILO. There will also be a high level panel discussion with Prime Ministers from several European countries and representatives from worker and employer organisations.

December 2008 

• 3 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
  ILO Side Event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference
  Co-hosted together with ITU, UNEP, ITUC and IOE, this event focuses on how ICT can help to shift from a high to a low carbon global economy and on the Green Jobs Initiative: towards decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon World. The event was chaired by Peter Poschen, ILO.
• 3-7 December 2008, Dakar
  In a series of events mobilizing actors from private and public workplaces, the ILO underlined the importance of concerted efforts in the world of work for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS
• 1-3 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  Workshop on the use of the "Training Toolkit on HIV/AIDS for the road transport sector" - [pdf 246 KB]
  The general aim of this workshop is to build the capacity of the employers and workers in the road transport sector to provide sector specific training on HIV/AIDS.
• 4-5 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  Seminar on ‘Employment and unemployment: Revisiting the relevance and conceptual basis of the statistics’
  This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of the Resolution.

November 2008 

• 29 November - 2 December 2008, Doha
  Doha International Conference on Financing for Development: Decent work essential in mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  In the conclusions of the International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, decent work emerged as a core component of a sustainable development process. "Human development remains a key priority, and human resources are the most precious and valuable asset that countries possess", the “Doha Declaration” states, stressing that "The realization of full and productive employment and decent work for all is essential."
• 6-21 November 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  303rd Session of the Governing Body - 6-21 November 2008
  Amid growing concern over the impact of economic turmoil on workers, employers and governments, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) took the first steps toward forging employment and social policy responses through social dialogue aimed at meeting the challenges of the deepening global economic crisis.
• 24 November - 5 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians
  The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians has been convened by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office in its 300th Session (November 2007) to discuss and adopt international statistical standards on two topics, Child Labour and Working Time. ...