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November 2012
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Rights in Myanmar
Reform process in Myanmar is irreversible, says ILO expert
16 November 2012
As US President Barack Obama heads to Myanmar, the ILO’s liaison officer in Yangon discusses the various changes this Southeast Asian country has been going through.
October 2012
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International Day of the Girl Child
ILO says discrimination against young girls must end
10 October 2012
The world must make sure that girl children find their rightful places at home, school and, as they grow up, at work - on equal terms with boys.
June 2012
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ILO survey: 5.5 million working children in the Philippines
27 June 2012
The government has announced it is scaling up the campaign to put an end to the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
October 2011
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USDOL grants ILO USD 17.5 million to combat child and forced labour
03 October 2011
The United States Department of Labor (USDOL) has signed two cooperative agreements granting the International Labour Organization USD 17.5 million to support activities to combat child and forced labour around the world.
June 2011
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ILO and FAO panel to highlight impact of pesticide exposure on child labourers in agriculture
21 June 2011
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlighted the impact of pesticides exposure on child labourers in agriculture during an international conference which was held in Geneva on Wednesday, 22 June 2011.
May 2010
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Global Child Labour Conference, The Hague, 10-11 May 2010
Global Conference calls for renewed efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour
10 May 2010
Amid signs that global efforts to combat child labour are losing momentum, more than 450 delegates from 80 countries have gathered here today calling for a re-energized international campaign to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
March 2010
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Child labour
The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the ILO has published its activities report for the years 2008 and 2009
29 March 2010
IPEC’s activities have directly benefited some 300,000 children during this period, either through preventive measures or by rescuing them from child labour practices. Another 52 million children were indirectly benefited by the programme’s work.
October 2009
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International cooperation
ILO welcomes US funding to tackle child labour worldwide
08 October 2009
The International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) has welcomed the award of the US Department of Labour of $59 million in new grants to combat child labour in 19 countries around the world. A large part of these funds are to support ILO-IPEC country projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where despite the significant progress in the past years in combating child labour, millions of children are still forced to work at the expense of their health, education and future.
August 2009
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The 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP)
ILO says significant steps undertaken for the development of a new international human rights instrument on HIV/AIDS
12 August 2009
The first draft text of an international labour standard in the form of a Recommendation on HIV/AIDS and the world of work has been released by the ILO. Based on the discussions held at the International Labour Conference in Geneva this June, the draft text of the human rights instrument has been sent to member States for tripartite consultations.
July 2009
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ILO and Germany sign an agreement on the elimination of underage recruitment in Myanmar
23 July 2009
The agreement signed by Germany and the International Labour Organization is part of a project in line with the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention No. 29.
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