8-10 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Tripartite Meeting of Experts on the Measurement of Decent Work The meeting of experts is expected to discuss and make recommendations on a methodology to measure progress toward decent work that involves the identification of quantitative and qualitative indicators.
5 September 2008, Oslo, Norway High-Level Forum on “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” The High-Level Forum “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” held in Oslo on 5 September 2008 was the first public international discussion of the ILO Declaration on “Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” (June 2008), and gave rise to new ideas for policy coherence and global governance. The meeting was organized by the Government of Norway and the Financial Times.
15-19 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Tripartite Expert Meeting to Adopt Guidelines on Flag State Inspections under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 The 94th (Maritime) Session of the International Labour Conference, which adopted the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, also adopted a number of resolutions.
Resolution XIII, concerning the development of guidelines for flag State inspection, requested that the Director-General convene a tripartite expert meeting to develop suitable guidance for flag State inspection.
8-10 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Tripartite Meeting of Experts on the Measurement of Decent Work In its March 2008 session, the Governing Body approved a Tripartite
Meeting of Experts to provide further detailed advice on the viability of the options, and to provide guidance on the various possible ways of measuring the dimensions of decent work in order to prepare comprehensive recommendations for consideration by the Governing Body.
1-10 April 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Meeting of Experts on Labour Statistics - Part I: Child Labour Statistics, Part II: Measurement of Working Time The meeting of experts is expected to discuss and make recommendations on two topics, under Report I: Statistics of Child Labour and Report II: Measurement of Working Time, with a view to advising the Office on its preparation of proposed standards for submission to the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (Geneva, 24 November- 5 December 2008).
25 February 2008, Bangkok, Thailand ILO Regional Training on Indigenous Issues in Asia The training brought together indigenous resource persons, internationla experts, governments, donors and agency staff working at the level of policy dialogue and development as well as field of implementation.
14-18 January 2008, Geneva, Switzerland Meeting of the ILO Declaration Expert–Advisers ILO Declaration Expert-Advisers (IDEA) are charged with presenting the conclusions of annual reports from countries which have not ratified one or more of the ILO's seven fundamental Conventions.