Officer in Charge, Senior Specialist, Employers' Activities
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Anne Knowles joined the SRO-Budapest Office in August 2007 as the new Senior Specialist for Employers’ Activities. In that role she works with Employers’ Organisations in the subregion providing advice and technical assistance to build their capacity to better represent their employer members and provide them with needed services. Prior to her arrival in Budapest Anne Knowles was in the same role in the ILO's South East Asia subregional office based in Bangkok.
Before joining the ILO in February 2004 Anne Knowles spent some 20 years working for Employers' Organisations in New Zealand – first with the New Zealand Meat Export Processing Industry Association and then with the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, becoming Chief Executive in January 2000. She was closely involved with the ILO during her time with NZEF, being the Employers’ Group Spokesperson for the Maternity Protection Convention in 1999-2000 and for the General Discussion on Occupational Safety and Health in 2003.
Anne Knowles has an Honours degree in Law from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme of the University of Hawaii.
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| Fully fit at work |
Film about the advantages of employing persons with disabilities. As this ILO film (Fully Fit at Work) shows, not only may people with disabilities be more productive, they may actually be more skilled in some jobs than non-disabled people. Produced for the ILO by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
Watch the film online in Polish with English subtitles. Duration: 21 min 11 sec
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World Day Against Child Labour
12 June 2008
Education: The right response to child labour
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A package for social and economic progress
The Albanian pilot of the One UN Programme will make use of the experiences of the International Labour Organization (ILO) gained in the field. As the only tripartite organisation within the United Nations system, the ILO plays a key role in involving social partners in the recently launched UN reform process.
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