News

March 2003

1. ILO Governing Body convenes 286 th session

   06 March 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) opened its 286 th session here today and is to consider the appointment of the Director-General and a zero, real-growth programme and budget for the 2004-05 biennium during its three-week session.

February 2003

1. ILO to Mark International Women's Day Four top women reporters to discuss war and conflict

   28 February 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) will mark International Women's Day on 7 March this year with a discussion by four award-winning women journalists on war and conflict, and the special challenges it poses to them and other women.

2. High-level Tripartite Conference to Assess Social Dialogue, Labour Law in EU Accession Countries

   27 February 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The 13 European Union accession states will gather in Valetta, Malta on 28 February for a high-level international Conference on social dialogue and labour law reform aimed at exploring new ways of meeting the economic and social challenges as they prepare to join an expanded EU.

3. ILO to consider future of employment in the tobacco sector Geneva, 24-28 February 2003

   18 February 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - Workers, employers and governments meet here on 24 to 28 February to consider, for the first time, the future of the world's 100 million workers who depend in some way on the production, manufacture and distribution of tobacco and tobacco products for their livelihood.

4. Fourth Meeting of the World Commission on Social Dimension of Globalization

   14 February 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization will hold its fourth meeting at the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 16-18 February 2003.

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   FIFA and ILO team up on worldwide campaign to fight child labour

   13 February 2003

   ZURICH (ILO News) - The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have agreed to wave a "Red Card to Child Labour", uniting the world of sport and the world of work in an unprecedented global campaign.

January 2003

1. Travel woes, economic downturncost millions of jobs in world tourism

   28 January 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - Millions of jobs in the world tourism sector have been lost due to political turmoil, the global economic downturn and growing unease among many travellers with little prospect of any recovery in employment in the sector before 2005, according to a new report * by the International Labour Office (ILO) issued online today.

2. The vital link: Public emergency services face growing pressure

   27 January 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - In addition to rising crime, violence, accidents and terror attacks, firefighters, police, paramedics and others in the public emergency sector in many countries are increasingly facing new challenges as a result of deteriorating working conditions, according to a new report * by the International Labour Office (ILO).

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   New ILO Report on Global Employment Trends 2003

   24 January 2003

   GENEVA (ILO News) - Two years of economic slowdown has pushed the number of unemployed to new heights worldwide, with little prospect of any improvement in the global employment situation this year, according to a new report entitled Global Employment Trends issued here today by the International Labour Office (ILO).

December 2002

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   Real Madrid football club teams up with ILO to fight child labour

   13 December 2002

   MADRID (ILO News) - The Real Madrid football club and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are teaming up to raise a "Red card" to the child labour in its worst forms - a practice that traps one of every eight children - or some 180 million worldwide - in exploitative, often dangerous work.