News

June 2011

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   News

   High-level panels to examine global jobs crisis, balanced growth and decent work

   07 June 2011

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   I-News

   100th ILO annual Conference elects officers

   01 June 2011

   The 100th Session of the International Labour Conference, which will run in Geneva till 17 June, opened on 1 June and elected as its President Mr. Robert Nkili, Minister of Labour and Social Security of Cameroon.

June 2010

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   Social dialogue

   Mexico presents successful social dialogue project at the International Labour Conference

   15 June 2010

   The Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare of Mexico, Javier Lozano, presented at the 99th International Labour Conference in Geneva "a successful program" to modernize work in the sugar cane industry, and stressed the importance of an effective social dialogue to face the challenge of productivity.

2. Decent Work

   Sultanate of Oman signs Decent Work Country Programme, the second Gulf country after the Kingdom of Bahrain

   15 June 2010

   The Decent Work Country Programme for the Sultanate of Oman was launched today at the 99th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva.

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   HIV/AIDS and the world of work

   UNAIDS and WHO support ILO proposed Standard on HIV/AIDS and the world of work

   03 June 2010

   A proposed new labour standard on HIV/AIDS in the world of work has received solid support from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization during the annual meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva.

June 2009

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   98th International Labour Conference

   Timor-Leste ratifies first ILO Conventions

   16 June 2009

   Timor-Leste has ratified four conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), concerning forced labour, freedom of association and protection of the right to organize, the right to organize and collective bargaining, and the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.

June 2008

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   News

   Labour Organization Journalistic Prize awarded to Misako Hida for her article on "death from overwork"

   04 June 2008

   Dying from overwork in ‘the Land of Karoshi’: The article that won the first International Labour Organization Journalistic Prize.