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November 2012
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Webinar: Human rights and social justice: Let's end child labour
27 November 2012, 9:30 AM (New York), 3:30 PM (Geneva)
Join experts from the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour to discuss “Human Rights and Social Justice: let’s end child labour”, the theme of the 2012 World Day Against Child Labour.
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Training course on child labour in agriculture: “Harvesting a future without child labour: Eliminating harmful practices in agriculture”
26 - 30 November 2012, ITC-ILO, Turin, Italy
This one-week course takes a broad view on child labour in agriculture with an emphasis on the policy options to eliminate this practice and promote safer and more sustainable production processes. Participants will have gained knowledge on child labour in agriculture, including fisheries and aquaculture, forestry and livestock rearing, and on the strategies for mainstreaming child labour issues into rural development programs, policies and activities. The course will also address occupational safety and health (OSH) issues specific to child labour in agriculture and participants will learn how to carry out and implement an OSH risk assessment. Teaching language English. For further information, contact Laura Biscaro at L.Biscaro@itcilo.org.
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Global South-South Development Forum 2012
19 - 23 November 2012, Vienna
This year’s Global South-South Development Expo in Vienna (Austria) puts the spotlight on Energy and Climate Change. The ILO Solution Forum on Energy, Climate Change and Decent Work (20 November) covered inclusive access to decent work, follow-up to Rio+20, green jobs, social protection and the promotion of workers’ rights in the field of renewable energy and climate change.
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ILO course on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work: a prevention & social protection perspective, 12-23 November 2012
12 - 23 November 2012, Turin, Italy
The ILO Training Centre in Turin is organizing a two-week capacity-building course on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, with a prevention and social protection perspective. The course aims to strengthen the capacity of planners and social actors to develop and implement workplace policies and programmes on HIV and AIDS that build on and benefit from the decent work approach, covering rights, prevention, employment issues, social protection aspects and social dialogue.
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SOLVE training of trainers: Integrating health promotion in occupational safety and health policies
12 - 23 November 2012, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy
The overall objective of this course is to develop knowledge and skills that will lead to the integration of the psychosocial and health promotion issues into a comprehensive enterprise policy and establish a framework for preventative action. This course will be held in French.
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316th Session of the Governing Body of the ILO
1 - 16 November 2012, Geneva
October 2012
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Course: Promoting Labour Standards through Corporate Social Responsibility - instruments and practices
22 - 26 October 2012, International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO), Turin, Italy
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11th session of the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)
8 - 12 October 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
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Employment injury schemes and the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases
8 - 19 October 2012, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy
The general objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of employment-injury institutions to improve the coverage and management of occupational accidents and diseases and to promote prevention as a means to occupational safety and health.
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Training course on child labour and education: “Achieving education for all and eliminating child labour”
1 - 5 October 2012, ITC-ILO, Turin, Italy
Child labour is a barrier to education for all. This course explores policy measures and programmes to remove barriers to education that working children face. It will be of interest to officials responsible for public education policy and planning; representatives of Ministries of Labour, workers’ representatives; employers’ representatives and international and national organisations concerned with child labour and education.