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International labour standards have grown into a comprehensive system of instruments on work and social policy, backed by a supervisory system designed to address all sorts of problems in their application at the national level.

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  1. Bolivia ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention

    18 April 2013

    Bolivia is the sixth ILO member State and the second Latin American member State to ratify this instrument

  2. Report III(2) - Information document on ratifications and standards-related activities

    28 March 2013

    The Information document on ratifications and standards-related activities (Report III (Part 2)) provides an overview of developments in international labour standards during 2012. It supplements the information contained in the report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (Report III) (Part 1A).

  3. The comments of the ILO's Supervisory bodies: Usefulness in the context of the sanction-based dimension of labour provisions in US free trade agreements

    21 March 2013

    This paper looks at recent complaints under the labour chapters of three US trade agreements – the CAFTA-DR, the US-Bahrain and the US-Peru FTAs – and undertakes a preliminary analysis of the use of the comments of the ILO’s supervisory bodies in the regulation mechanisms of labour provisions contained in those trade agreements

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    France ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

    28 February 2013

    France is the 35th ILO Member State and the 13th EU member State to ratify this landmark Convention.

  5. ILO publishes the annual report on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations 2013

    25 February 2013

    The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, whose work constitutes the cornerstone of the ILO's supervisory system on international labour standards, has just published its annual reports.

  6. Report III(1B) Collective bargaining in the public service: a way forward

    25 February 2013

    General Survey of Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (2013)

  7. Understanding the Indigenous and Tribal People Convention, 1989 (No. 169) - Handbook for ILO Tripartite Constituents

    19 February 2013

    This handbook aims to answer some of the essential questions regarding Convention No. 169 and is addressed to governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, as well as for indigenous and tribal peoples.

  8. Ecuador ratifies the Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention

    12 February 2013

    Ecuador is the 43rd ILO member State and the 10th member State in Latin America to ratify this Convention which seeks to promote equality of opportunity and treatment for both male and female workers with family responsibilities as well as between workers with family responsibilities and those without such responsibilities.

  9. Meeting of Experts on Forced Labour and Trafficking for Labour Exploitation

    11 February 2013

    The purpose of the Meeting was to formulate recommendations to the Governing Body on the scope for possible standard setting to complement the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), and Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105).

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