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News
- International Colloquium 7-9 May 2009, Geneva: “Social Transnational Policies. Reformist networks and the International Labour Organization (1900-2000)”.
University of Geneva and the International Labour Organization.
Colloquium organized by Sandrine Kott (Professor, University of Geneva) and Isabelle Lespinet-Moret (Associate Professor, University of Paris X, IDHE).
Programme and papers (pdf, 316kb).
- Director General announces high level events for the ILO's 90th anniversary
The last week of April 2009 is the 90th anniversary of the final approval by the Paris Peace Conference of the ILO’s Constitution. During that week, the Director General is inviting all ILO government, worker and employer constituents to hold high-level tripartite events and debates within each country on issues of their interest within the general framework of “Social Dialogue for Decent Work and a Fair Globalization”, and to bring the conclusions to the 2009 International Labour Conference.
- Workshop: “Perspectives on the ILO’s history”.
On Friday 3 October 2008 in room III, we are holding a one day workshop on the ILO’s history, based on the work we have been doing for the first book under the Century Project. The aim is to stimulate internal debate about the ILO’s history and its interpretation. Four themes will be discussed:
- 1.The ILO’s view of the world, 1919-2008 (09.30-10.45).
Presentation: Gerry Rodgers
Discussants: Sandrine Kott ; Philippe Egger
Chair: Patricia O’Donovan
- 2.Employment and poverty reduction: the first eighty years (11.15-12.30).
Presentation: Eddy Lee
Discussants: Dharam Ghai ; Duncan Campbell
Chair: Raymond Torres
- 3.The global human rights agenda and the contribution of the ILO (14.15-15.30).
Presentation: Lee Swepston
Discussants: Kari Tapiola ; Zafar Shaheed.
Chair: Jane Hodges
- 4.What more do we need to know about the ILO’s history? (16.00-17.15).
Presentation: Jasmien Van Daele
Discussants: Remo Becci ; Claude Akpokavie
Chair: Philippe Egger
- 11 June 2008
As you will have seen if you are reading this, the Century Project website is finally up and running. Many thanks to Johannes Müller for designing and implementing it. Please give us your feedback, and we will improve it as we go along.
There will be French and Spanish versions soon.Some outputs from the Century Project have already been posted: an interview of Francis Blanchard for the oral history, the photo essay by Jaci Eisenberg, and several draft papers. More is in the pipeline. Those of us working on the project will occasionally post some comments, snippets and thoughts under “Information resources – comments and recollections”. Contributions to that space from others on aspects of ILO history, in the form of short comments and recollections, references to interesting material or ideas for the project, are very welcome
(please send them to ILO Century Project.)
Gerry Rodgers and Jasmien Van Daele.
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