World Day Against Child Labour 2008 EventsJune 12 is the World Day against Child Labour. This year's World Day will be marked around the world with activities to raise awareness that education is the right response to child labour. In cooperation with the JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Yokohama, ILO Office in Japan will organize Child Labour Photo Exhibition (Gallery, JICA Yokohama, 18 May - 15 June 2008 9:30-18:00) and the World Day against Child Labour Seminar (Room Kamome, 4F, JICA Yokohama, 12 June 2008 18:30-20:30) in Yokohama, where the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) is to be held later in May. As opening event of the Photo Exhibition, Ms. Michele Jankanish, Director, ILO International Programme on Child Labour (IPEC) will make presentation on child labour in Africa and a film on children working in cocoa plantation in Cameroon will be screened on 18 May 14:00-15:30. For opening event and world day seminar (Japanese language only), prior registration is required. Please send your name, affiliation, contact details (address, phone no. or e-mail), clearly stating which of two events you want to participate, by facsimile (03-5467-2700) or e-mail (wdcl@ilotokyo.jp) to the ILO Office in Japan. Information materials on child labour and T-shirt against child labour will be distributed to the participants to these two events. For details, please click HERE (available only in Japanese).
Feature article: Japan becomes first country to ratify ILO Convention No.187 (Issued on 24 July 2007)On 24 July, Japan became the first country to ratify ILO Convention No.187 committing itself to reinforce its OSH system. The Convention which establishes a promotional framework for occupational safety and health (OSH) was adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2006. ILO online reports from Japan where a number of serious occupational safety and health problems highlighted the need to further reinforce prevention programmes.
New page: Interview with Ms. Doumbia-Henry, Director, ILO International Labour Standards Department (Tokyo, April 2006)Having been interviewed by Prof. Yozo Yokota, Professor of International Law, Chuo Law School and member of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations for a Japanese magazine, Ms. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director, ILO International Labour Standards Department, during her recent stay in Japan, talked about significance and prospects of Maritime Labour Convention, 2006. For full text of the interview, please click HERE.
ILO Office in Japan press release and press clippings