December 2004

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  13 December 2004 - Armenian Parliament ratified Minimum Wage Fixing ILO Convention No. 131 and Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention No. 144.

  
  ARKA News Agency (in Russian)(PDF ,70 Kb)
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  7 December 2004 - Half of the world's workers living below US$ 2 a day poverty line. ILO says new policies for promoting productivity growth and decent jobs could improve outlook for working poor.

  
  Press release (PDF ,253 Kb)
  Press Kit (PDF ,120 Kb)
  World Employment Report 2004-2005 - press clips (in Russian) (PDF ,127 Kb)
• 3 December 2004 - Biometric ID for seafarers ready to be issued. New ILO convention for maritime workers will come into force in February.
  On 3 December 2004 the International Labour Office (ILO) announced that the new biometric system for issuing secure identity documents to the world’s 1.2 million seafarers is ready for implementation, following successful testing of products that met the challenging requirement of “global interoperability” for such documents.
• 1 December 2004 - World AIDS Day.
  Today, on the eve of the World AIDS Day and two moths after the launch in Moscow, a new three-year ILO/US Department of Labour project was launched in Murmansk – the biggest port in the northwest Russia and one of the pilot regions for the project implementation. The project aims to contribute to the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the world of work, the enhancement of workplace protection and the reduction of its adverse consequences on social, labour and economic development. It is financed by the US Department of Labour and implemented by the International Labour Organization in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Development and the social partners.