Events
April 2013
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9th European Regional Meeting
8 - 11 April 2013, Oslo, Norway
The 9th European Regional Meeting (ERM) will provide the space for governments and worker and employer organisations, from across Europe and Central Asia to discuss the response to the economic and jobs crisis in a diverse and complex region: creating job-rich growth, promoting quality jobs through social dialogue, tackling youth unemployment and demographic challenges, promoting labour standards and policy coherence.
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Call for application to Global Labour University Programmes (Deadline: 1 April 2013)
1 April 2013, Geneva, Switzerland
The Global Labour University (GLU) invites trade unionists and labour activists to apply until 1st April 2013 to the following programmes.
March 2013
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National Tripartite Dialogue on Maternity Protection in Zambia
27 - 28 March 2013, Lusaka, Zambia
The Government of Zambia, in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), is hosting a National Tripartite Dialogue on Maternity Protection – in the presence of the First Lady, Dr. Christine Mwela Kaseba-Sata - , from 27-28 March 2013 in Lusaka, Zambia.
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IV International Convention against Child Labour
21 March 2013, Ciudad de México, Hilton Mexico City Reforma, 8:00 am
The main objective of the event is to assist the 2013 Global Child Labour Conference with the support of the work coming from Latin America in the elimination of child labour. To help achieve the overall goal of elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016, the event will help analyze overall progress and identify remaining challenges.
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Briefing session on the 3rd Global Conference on Child Labour
21 March 2013, Geneva, ILO, Room XI, 13:15 - 14:30
Members of the Governing Body and ILO staff are invited by the Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation and the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Brazil to a briefing session on the 3rd Global Conference on Child Labour, to be held in Brasilia on 8-10 October 2013.
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Enterprise Development through Value Chains and Business Service Markets
18 March - 28 June 2013, Turin
The course is highly relevant for professionals developing and implementing Value Chain and enterprise development projects in rural and urban areas. It offers a unique on-the-job learning opportunity using practical tools and lessons from enterprise development programs that have reached thousands of small enterprises in rural and urban areas.
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Expert Group Meeting and International Symposium on Employment-led Post-disaster Recovery
14 March 2013, Morioka, Japan
On 14 March, in Morioka, Japan, experts from governments, workers’ and employers’ organisations from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Philippines met to discuss about lessons learned and good practices from the tsunami and earthquake in Japan.
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Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe Photo Contest
11 March - 30 April 2013, Europe
The International Migration Programme of the ILO is organizing a photo contest in order to explore and to showcase the important and positive contributions that migrant domestic workers in Europe make to the societies they live in. This contest has been organized in the context of the ILO project ‘Promoting Integration for Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe’, with the financial support of the European Integration Fund.
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International Women's Day
8 March 2013, Geneva, ILO Headquarters
International Women’s Day 2013 presents an important opportunity for the ILO to host a world-of-work discussion on how to stop violence at work.
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Impact of domestic violence in the workplace: Joint Government of Australia/ILO side event at the 57th Session of the CSW
6 March 2013, ONE UN Millenium Hotel, New York
On 6 March 2013, new studies and evidence on impact of domestic violence in the workplace from three countries were presented by a four-person panel during the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).