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Information folder on Decent Work and the MDGs:
The information folder linked below includes one brief for each of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showing how the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda, in a context of fair globalization, is essential to the achievement of these shared aims.
The briefs contain links to further information about how decent and productive employment, social protection, rights at work and dialogue contribute to the MDGs. 
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Commission for Social Development: Review of further implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development 1995 and the 24th special session of the General Assembly (Copenhagen+5/Geneva 2000)

• ILO background paper
• Commission for Social Development: Declaration on the tenth anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development

• will focus on follow-up to the major global conferences, in particular the World Summit for Social Development (1995), the World Food Summit (1996), the Millennium Summit (2000), and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002), including support for attainment of their goals and targets, which are of relevance to the two organizations; follow-up to the Report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (2004) as a major area of collaboration; and the promotion of sustainable agriculture and rural development as a key priority for hunger and poverty reduction, with particular attention to rural livelihood improvement, decent work and employment creation.

• International policy developments, 2004, No. 1

United Nations General Assembly: 58th Session, 2003
Statements made by the ILO

Commission on Human Rights: 57th Session, Geneva, 2003
Statements made by the ILO

Commission for Social Development: 41st Session, New York, 10-21 February 2003
Statements made by the ILO

Secretary-General's Youth Employment Network

Expert Group Meeting: Jobs for Youth:
National Strategies for Employment Promotion
15-16 January 2003, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland
Organized by the United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization

Resolution on promoting youth employment
adopted by the General Assembly at its 57th Session, 2002

United Nations General Assembly: 57th Session, 2002
Statements made by the ILO

UN website
UN reports

World Summit on Sustainable Development
(Johannesburg, 26 August- 4 September 2002)

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Statement to the Summit by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office (Johannesburg, 29 August 2002)

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Official Summit website
UN News Service: statements, documents, live coverage, etc.

Secretary-General's Youth Employment Network

Website relaunched at ILO

Meeting of the High-Level Panel

Policy recommendations presented to the Secretary-General
Decent work for young people: A guide to action

World Food Summit – five years later
Rome, 6-8 June 2002

Decent work to eliminate poverty and ensure food security: An ILO position paper
Statement by the ILO to the Summit

G8 Labour and Employment Ministers Conference (Montreal, Canada, 25-27 April 2002)

Statement to the Conference by Francois Tremeaud, ILO Executive Director

Second World Assembly on Ageing (Madrid, Spain, 8-12 April 2002)

ILO contribution to the Assembly: An inclusive society for an ageing population: The employment and social protection challenge 

International Conference on Financing for Development
(Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March 2002)

ILO and Inter-Parliamentary Union in campaign against worst forms of child labour

World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization:
The ILO launches a world commission, comprising presidents, politicians, academics, social experts and a Nobel economics laureate

International financial institutions

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): An assessment of the ILO's experience. Governing Body, March 2002

Memorandum of Understanding between the ILO and the Asian Development Bank

Cooperation Agreement between the ILO, the African Development Bank and the African Development Fund

ILO partnership programme: Universitas
Aim: to support governments, training institutions and those working in the social field in developing strategies and practices in line with the objectives of human development and decent work. English - Français - Español 

World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
Durban, South Africa, 31 August-7 September 2001

Statement by Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General, to the Conference

Special Session of the UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS: Global Crisis, Global Action (New York, 25-27 June 2001)

Statement by Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General, to the Conference

Special Session of the UN General Assembly: Istanbul+5 – Reviewing and appraising progress five years after Habitat II  (New York, 6-8 June 2001)

Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC III – Brussels, 14-20 May 2001)

Publications

Decent work in the global economy: IPG Discussion paper No. 1