Events and training on labour migration
September 2017
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Establishing fair recruitment processes
18 - 22 September 2017
Are you interested to learn more about what you can do to reduce the risk of abusive and fraudulent recruitment of workers in the supply chain? Then join the ITCILO’s course on Establishing Fair Recruitment Processes.
July 2017
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Labour Migration Academy
3 - 14 July 2017
Enhancing Protection, Promoting Sustainable Development and Facilitating Fair and Effective Labour Migration Governance
May 2017
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Transnational circular migration of Bangladeshi contract workers
30 May 2017
Presenter: Professor Mahua Sarkar (Binghamton University, IEA de Nantes)
April 2017
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Training for Journalists in Tunisia on Labour Migration and Fair Recruitment
19 - 20 April 2017
A six-month comprehensive training programme for journalists to increase their knowledge on labour migration and investigative reporting techniques to enable them to report fairly an accurately on migration.
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The Publication Workshop: Fourth-year Evaluation of Recruitment Agencies’ Compliance with the VAMAS Code of Conduct
17 April 2017
This workshop is to recognize and publicize the rating (evaluation) of 88 recruitment agencies’ compliance with the VAMAS’s Code of Conduct.
December 2016
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Labour Migration Academy
5 - 9 December 2016
The Academy on Labour Migration is a unique training opportunity to review and analyse key issues, strategies, policies and tools for tackling the complex challenges in terms of governance, protection of migrant workers and their families, migration and development linkages, and international cooperation. To address the regional dimension of labour migration more effectively, the academy will take place in Africa in 2016.
November 2016
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The ILO and the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP22
7 - 18 November 2016
The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Bab Ighli, Marrakech, Morocco from 7-18 November 2016. This twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) follows the adoption in 2015 of the Paris Agreement on climate change at COP21.
September 2016
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Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Develop Guidance on Fair Recruitment
5 - 7 September 2016
The ILO Governing Body at its 326th Session agreed to convene in September 2016 a three-day “Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Develop Guidance on Fair Recruitment”, with the objective to adopt ILO guidelines on fair recruitment, encompassing both cross-border and national recruitment. The outcomes of such a meeting will inform the general discussion on labour migration that has been included on the agenda of the International Labour Conference in June 2017, as well as the second recurrent discussion on fundamental principles and rights at work.
Please note that this Meeting is by invitation only and not open to the public.
August 2016
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Workshop to prepare for a Sector Study in Nepal (ECLM project)
29 August - 2 September 2016
A Workshop was held in Kathmandu from August 29 - September 2 in in the context of the project "Assessing the economic contribution of labour migration in developing countries as countries of destination" (ECLM). The workshop was organised in collaboration with Social Science Baha, a research institution in Nepal, and discussed the implementation of a study of the manufacturing and small trade sectors.
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Workshop to prepare for a Sector Study in Nepal (ECLM project)
29 August - 2 September 2016
A Workshop was held in Kathmandu from Aug 29 – Sep 2 2016 in the context of the project "Assessing the economic contribution of labour migration in developing countries as countries of destination" (ECLM). The workshop was organised in collaboration with a team of researchers from Social Science Baha, and discussed the implementation of a study of the manufacturing and trade sectors. The agenda for the workshop can be downloaded below.