Past events
March 2010
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Working Women's Equal Opportunities and Treatment - From Beijing 1995 to MDGs 2010 to Real Gender Equality
4 March 2010
Tripartite panel discussion, organized by the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in New York and the ILO Bureau for Gender Equality, held at UN Headquarters in New York to coincide with the 54th session in 2010 of the Commission on the Status of Women.
February 2010
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Tripartite High-Level Meeting : Decent Work for Sustainable Development in the Pacific
8 - 9 February 2010
This High-Level meeting took into account developments in the region and discussed a Regional Implementation Plan for decent work. It served as a platform to identify existing constraints and opportunities for promoting/accelerating implementation of ILO Decent Work Country Programmes, in particular in light of the global economic crisis and climate change.
January 2010
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Opening of the Children’s views of child labour exhibit
26 January 2010
"Children’s views of child labour" is the title of an international exhibit that will be opened at the Italian Department for Equal Opportunities in Rome on 26 January 2010 in the Sala Polifunzionale of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Isabella Rauti, Head of the Department for Equal Opportunities, will inaugurate the exhibit, together with a representative of the ILO Rome Office.
December 2009
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ILO Tripartite Workshop on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Finance Sector Workers in Selected African Countries
16 - 17 December 2009
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ILO-ASEAN Trade Union Council (ATUC) Sub Regional Seminar on Regional Integration
15 - 17 December 2009
ASEAN as a regional grouping of 10 countries in the East Asia region is fast developing into a strong sub regional economic and political block. In order to strengthen economic and political cooperation it has develop a number of policies including favourable schemes export-import tariffs and relaxed visa requirements for travel within the block. It has extended its cooperation with “ASEAN plus 3” concept that include India, Japan and China as trading partners and they participate in all ASEAN meetings. ASEAN has developed cooperation with the European Union resulting in greater trading between the two blocks and also it holds annual meetings between the two groupings.
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The ILO in Copenhagen: Climate change @ work
7 - 18 December 2009
The ILO actively participates in the UNFCCC process and the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Taking part in the climate UNFCCC negotiations the ILO aims to support coherent policies which buffer the negative impacts of climate change on the labour market and creating opportunities for decent and green jobs and which sustain governments, employers and workers in the transition to adapt and to prevent dangerous climate change.
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities
3 December 2009
This year's theme for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - "Making the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Inclusive: Empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world" - supports the message of challenging exclusion. It aims to highlight the need to continue to work for the mainstreaming of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society and development if the MDGs of reducing poverty are to be achieved.
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First African Decent Work Symposium on "Recovering from the crisis: the implementation of the Global Jobs Pact in Africa."
1 - 2 December 2009
This 1st African Decent Work Symposium aims at the implementation of the Global Jobs Pact by the ILO African tripartite Constituents in cooperation with regional institutions, international and regional financial institutions, the United Nations system as well as development partners.
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Routes out of the Crisis: Strategies for Local Employment Recovery and Skills Development in Asia
1 - 3 December 2009
Since September 2008, the global economic and financial crisis has reverberated across all sectors and geographic regions, with much of the effect still emerging. While no country has been spared from the effects of the crisis, each country will be affected differently at the different stages. Some have described the crisis occurring in three stages in developing countries; first with the collapse of highly traded industries, then with the drying up of private capital flows and a decline in remittance transfers back to developing countries, and finally with a more general domestic economic slowdown due to reduced consumption. The diverse impact of the crisis has been quite evident in Asia. Countries whose economies have been heavily reliant on the export of basic commodities and manufactured goods have borne the brunt of the economic slowdown, to date. On the other hand, countries with robust domestic economies, sound fiscal positions, excess reserves and large domestic markets have been able to weather the shock better.