Useful Links - United Nations
United Nations
African Centre for Women (ACW), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Commission on the Status of Women
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean (ECLAC)
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Gender Activities of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
Gender in Development, UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Global Compact: information system on human rights, labour standards, and environmental protection (maintained by the United Nations Global Compact Network with the participation of the ILO and UNEP)
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
Special INSTRAW website on Gendered Aspects of Ageing
UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
UNESCO Priority Women, Gender Equality site
Women in Development, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
WomenWatch: The UN Internet gateway on the advancement and empowerment of women
World Food Programme (WFP) and Gender
Sectors of the ILO
Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
Selected units of the ILO
Bureau for Employers' Activities
Bureau for Workers' Activities
InFocus Programme on Promoting the Declaration
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
Library and Information Services
Women's Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality
Databases of the ILO
APPLIS: Database on the application of international labour standards
ATLAS: Information System on Labour Administration in the World
Business and Social Initiative Database (BASI): comprehensive information on private sector initiatives which address labour and social conditions in the workplace and in the community where enterprises operate
ILODOC: Documents and publications of the ILO since 1919
ILOLEX: Database containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, representations, complaints, interpretations, General Surveys, and numerous related documents
KILM: Key indicators of the labour market
LABORSTA: Labour statistics database operated by the ILO Bureau of Statistics
World Bank (gender section)
World Bank statistical table on gender differences