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October 2012
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Labour standards
Employment rights essential to economic recovery, says new ILO boss
01 October 2012
In his first interview as Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder gives an overview of the major challenges facing the world of work and the ILO.
February 2012
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ILO launches comprehensive new database on labour standards
12 February 2012
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a comprehensive new database providing open access to the latest information on ILO international labour standards as well as national labour and social security laws.
June 2011
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I-News
Singapore, First Asian country to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
15 June 2011
Singapore has ratified the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) with the full support of tripartite partners – the seafarer unions and the National Trades Union Congress, as well as the maritime industry and the Singapore National Employers Federation.
June 2010
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Maritime Labour Convention
Canada joins other key maritime States to help bring seafarers' decent work Convention into force
17 June 2010
The Government of Canada deposited its instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 with the International Labour Office on 15 June. Canada is the first North American country to ratify this key maritime labour Convention, sometimes called the “super convention”, adopted by the 94th International Labour Conference (Maritime) in Geneva in February 2006.
May 2010
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Better Work Programme
Joint ILO-IFC Better Work partnership names U.K. corporate social responsibility expert as new Director
18 May 2010
Better Work, a partnership of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has announced that ILO Director-General Juan Somavia has selected corporate social responsibility expert Dan Rees of the United Kingdom as its new Director.
June 2008
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Ratifications of the 1997 Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the ILO and of International Labour Standards
09 June 2008
The Director of the International Labour Standards Department and the Legal Adviser received ratifications of the 1997 Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the ILO and of International Labour Conventions.