Events coverage

November 2007

Facing the "stark reality" of climate change's effect on economic growth

13 November 2007

ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and UNEP Director Achim Steiner lead a discussion about the effects of climate change on the nexus between economic growth and environmental sustainability and how our only choice will be to see how they can reinforce each other in the years to come.
Supporting the decent work agenda

01 November 2007

In his opening remarks at the ILO Forum on Decent Work For a Fair Globalization, the Prime Minister of Portugal, Mr. José Socrates, called on global support for the decent work agenda, a strategy which he said promotes sustainable and inclusive growth.
Coming together: a global movement for decent work

01 November 2007

Speaking in Lisbon on the first day of the ILO Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization, ILO Director-General Juan Somavia said there was an urgent need for global actors to work together on the decent work agenda.

September 2007

East Asia is the growth productivity story of the decade, according to new figures from the Key Indicators of the Labour Market, released this week at a press conference in Geneva

03 September 2007

East Asia showed some of the fastest labour productivity growth rates in economic history, according to Jose Manuel Salazar, Executive Director of the ILO Employment Sector, speaking at a press conference for the launch of the 5th edition of the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM).

June 2007

Professor Carmelo Mesa-Lago accepts the ILO Decent Work Research Prize

15 June 2007

The International Labour Organization today awarded its first annual Decent Work Research Prize to Nobel peace laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela and to the eminent academic and specialist in social security, Professor Carmelo Mesa-Lago, citing their contributions to improving the lives of people around the world.
Nelson Mandela's acceptance address on receiving the Decent Work Research Prize 2007

15 June 2007

In a video address to the International Labour Conference, Nelson Mandela describes decent work as “the right not only to survive but to prosper and to have a dignified and fulfilling quality of life.”
H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, addresses the 96th International Labour Conference

15 June 2007

On the closing day of the International Labour Conference, the President of Sri Lanka stressed the need for political objectives in his country to be achieved "through negotiation and dialogue".
Adoption of the new fishing convention

14 June 2007

Innovative new labour standards designed to improve the conditions for roughly 30 million men and women working in the fishing sector worldwide were adopted today at the 96th annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
His Royal Highness Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias, addresses the 96th International Labour Conference

13 June 2007

Addressing government, worker and employer delegates at the annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO), His Royal Highness Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias today highlighted the need to “humanize” economic change and ensure that globalization offers “real advantages for all”.
President Abdoulaye Wade of the Republic of Senegal - Excerpts from his address to the ILC

12 June 2007

President Abdoulaye Wade of the Republic of Senegal tells delegates to the 96th International Labour Conference that Africa faces a paradox at a time when it is opening its markets to the world, its share in that market is under 2 per cent.