ILO Home
  
Go to the home page
Site map | Contact us 中文




Forum Report: National Employment Forum - (pdf 774KB) 21-22 November 2007, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia


Global Employment Trends 2007

Global Employment Trends 2008


Asian Decent Work Decade

Asian Employment Forum: Growth, Employment and Decent Work
13-15 August 2007, Beijing

What's new in China

  • ILO/DFID Emergency SIYB project is getting people in the earthquake-hit region back to work through re-starting and starting their businesses
    As part of a wider UN response to recent Sichuan earthquake, the ILO focuses on livelihoods recovery, under the broad theme of ‘helping people to get back to work’. Responding to a Government request, the ILO, with financial support by the UK Department for International Development, will provide targeted assistance to re-establishing at least 1,000 destroyed small businesses and setting up 700 new ones for those who lost their jobs.

  • ILO provides support and technical assistance to Government and partners in earthquake struck areas
    Following the message of sympathy from the ILO Director-General Juan Somavia, the ILO has been engaged with the UN China relief efforts. Now moving into the stage of early recovery, ILO works with Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and ACWF, as well as local authorities to assist in starting to get people back to work.
  • Tripartite Consultation on Decent Work Country Programme,20-21 January 2008, Beijing
    Represented by Ministry of Labour and Social Security, State Administration for Work Safety, China Enterprise Confederation and All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Chinese constituents sat together with the ILO officials to review the ILO projects and activities in 2007. During the tripartite consultation, they also discussed the impact and indicators of the Decent Work Country Programme and achieved an overall plan for the activities in 2008.

What's new in Mongolia

  • World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2008 - Education: the right response to child labour

  • Mongolia seeks ways to improve application of International Labour Standards
    The Workshop on Application of International Labour Standards was held in Ulaanbaatar between 14 - 19 May 2008. This workshop brought ILO tripartite constituents and national human rights organizations together to discuss International Labour Standards applicable in Mongolia and Mongolia's reporting obligations on application of these standards. The workshop raised constituents' and stakeholders' awareness on ILS and built capacity to improve discharging of reporting obligations, aiming especially at timely submission of first reports on forced labour conventions C. 29 and C. 105.
  • Improving Employment Services
    The ILO conducted an in-depth review and made recommendations to the Government on how to set up and carry out employment services to meet labour market needs in April and May 2008

Ongoing and upcoming

  • In China

    • 26-27 June 2008, Wuxi
      International Seminar on Promoting Private Employment Agencies Development
  • In Mongolia

    • 12 June 2008, Ulaanbaatar
      World Day Against Child Labour - Education: the right response to child labour
  • see all events >

 


The ILO at a glance - (pdf 1,277 KB)
•  Chinese - (pdf 1,418 KB)



Decent Work: A better world starts here - web movie

Child Labour movie - (2min 45sec)
Child Labour Web movie (2' 45")



Decent Work and the Millennium Development Goals - Information folder • Chinese - (pdf 3,295 KB)
 
Last update: 20-06-2008 ^ top