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• ILO Director-General calls for new multilateral consensus to head off global slowdown and recession
  9 April 2008 - ILO/08/10
• ILO Governing Body concludes 301st session - Considers labour situation in Myanmar, Colombia and other countries, welcomes growing links with World Bank
  20 March2008 - ILO/08/4
• World Bank President cites growing ties with ILO on globalization and decent work agenda, welcomes "partnership through dialogue"
  17 March 2008 - ILO/08/8
• Global Employments Trends for Women 2008: More women enter the workforce, but more than half of all working women are in vulnerable jobs
  6 March 2008 - ILO/08/6
• ILO Governing Body opens 301st session: Labour situation in Myanmar will be discussed, along with migration, discrimination and freedom of association
  6 March 2008 - ILO/08/7
• International Women's Day 2008: New report on global Employment Trends for Women and panel discussion on investing in women's decent work by ILO
  29 February 2008 - ILO/08/5
• ILO experts to highlight critical aspects of human trafficking at Vienna forum
  12 February 2008 - ILO/08/3
• ILO projects global economic turbulence could generate five mission more unemployed in 2008
  23 January 2008 - ILO/08/2
• ILO to launch annual report on Global Employment Trends 2008
  16 January 2008 - ILO/08/1
• ILO and Gates Foundation join forces to development range of insurance products in developing countries
  6 December 2007 - ILO/07/63
• International Day of Disabled Persons
  26 November 2007 - ILO/07/60
• ILO to launch new Book on trade union responses to globalization
  13 November 2007 - ILO/07/58
• ILO Forum discusses Decent Work and a fair globalization
  1 November 2007 - ILO/07/54
• ILO Decent Work Reserach Prize 2008: Call for nominations
  24 October 2007 - ILO/07/50
• New ILO report says US leads the world in labour productivity, some regions are catching up, most lag behind
  2 September 2007 - ILO/07/47
• ILO Asia-Pacific employment forum opens in Beijing - Hears call for integrating sustainable development and decent work
  13 August 2007 - ILO/07/45
• ILO awards first Decent Work Reserach Prize to Nelson mandela and Carmelo Mesa-Lago
  15 June 2007 - ILO/07/38
• World Day Against Child Labour 2007: New global partnership against child labour in agriculture
  11 June 2007 - ILO/07/30
• Working Time Around The World - One in five workers worldwide are putting in "excessive" hours: New ILO study spotlights working time in over 50 countries
  7 June 2007 - ILO/07/29
• ILO to launch new global study on working time trends
  1 June 2007 - ILO/07/24
• Heads of State, government and leaders from the world of work to address wide range of labour issues at the 96th International Labour Conference
  29 May 2007 - ILO/07/23
• Media advisory - 96th International Labour Conference, 30 May - 15 June 2007
  25 May 2007 - ILO/07/21
• ILO announces recipients of first decent work reserach prize
  23 May 2007 - ILO/07/20
• New ILO Global Report on Equality at Work 2007 - Despite major progress, workplace discrimination persists and is taking on new forms
  10 May 2007 - ILO/07/19
• ILO Governing Body concludes 298th Session Considers ILO budget, labour situation in Myanmar, Belarus and other countries as well as trade and employment policy
  30 March 2007 - ILO/07/09
• ILO Governing Body opens 298th session Labour situation in Belarus and Myanmar will be discussed, along with ILO budget, trade and employment
  8 March 2007 - ILO/07/07
• Global Employment Trends for Women 2007 ILO study warns on the feminization of working poverty
  7 March 2007 - ILO/07/06
• International Women's Day 2007 ILO to celebrate working women who have been "breaking boundaries and driving change"
  1 March 2007 - ILO/07/05
• ILO, UNDP join forces to promote growth for decent jobs
  9 February 2007 - ILO/07/03
• Global Employment Trends 1007 Global unemployment remains at historic high despite strong economic growth Modest gains in reducing working poverty
  25 January 2007 - ILO/07/02
• Brunei becomes 180th ILO Member State
  23 January 2007 - ILO/07/01

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