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August 2012

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   Labour standards

   Milestone ratifications of seafarers’ labour rights charter

   20 August 2012

   The ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention has now been ratified by 30 countries, meaning it will go into effect in a year’s time. The charter sets out the labour rights of the world’s 1.2 million seafarers.

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   Article

   On course for decent shipping

   20 August 2012

   When the ILO adopted the Maritime Labour Convention in February 2006, Director-General Juan Somavia called it “making labour history”. Following the ratification by Russia and the Philippines, the Convention will come into force in 12 months’ time. What does this mean for the world’s 1.2 million seafarers?

May 2012

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   Article

   What are the challenges behind Russia’s plan to boost job creation?

   21 May 2012

   Russia recently announced an ambitious plan to create 25 million high productivity jobs by 2020. Olga Koulaeva, Employment Specialist at the ILO Moscow office, analyses Russian labour market challenges in an interview with ILO News.

June 2011

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   Video

   Video Highlights: Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, Addresses 100th International Labour Conference

   15 June 2011

   In his address to the delegates of the historic 100th International Labour Conference, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke in strong support of the ILO's Global Jobs Pact, and underlined the important role of the ILO and its tripartite structure in shaping economic recovery policies. (In Russian)

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   Feature story

   HIV/AIDS training in Russia: “To know means to live”

   14 June 2011

   The 100th Session of the International Labour Conference also marks one year since the adoption of ILO Recommendation No. 200 – the first international human rights instrument to focus specifically on the issue of HIV/AIDS in the world of work. The Recommendation aims to strengthen the contribution of the world of work to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and contains provisions on potentially life-saving prevention programmes for all groups of workers, including young workers and persons in training. This story is about "Your Health" – an innovative training course for vocational schools in Russia.

May 2011

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   Article

   “Working in Russia”: a step towards decent work for migrant workers

   16 May 2011

   According to the 2011 ILO Global Report on Discrimination, migrant workers encounter discrimination on a daily basis. While many of them are already at risk of all kinds of abuse, they also became the first victims of the financial and economic crisis, the report says. ILO Online reports from the Russian Federation which has been the biggest receiving, sending and transit country for migrant workers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the early 1990s.

June 2010

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   HIV/AIDS

   Learn about it at work: an HIV poster campaign in Russia

   16 June 2010

   The proposed new standard on HIV/AIDS that is under discussion at the International Labour Conference is not only the first international human rights instrument to focus explicitly on HIV/AIDS. It also contains provisions on prevention programmes and anti-discrimination measures at national and workplace levels aimed at strengthening the contribution of the world of work to HIV prevention, treatment care and support. This story demonstrates how a participatory approach and involvement of social partners allowed to create an effective HIV poster campaign in Russia.

March 2007

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   Council of the Baltic States Task Force against Trafficking / in Human Beings

   07 March 2007

   The overall objective of the Task force is to counteract trafficking in human beings in the Baltic Sea Region through preventive and protective activities, focusing on persons over the age of 18.