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ILO Washington

ILO Washington

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The International Labour Office (ILO) in Washington, D.C. serves as a liaison between the ILO and the United States government, employers’ and workers’ organizations, multilateral and Washington-based institutions. The Washington Office engages in outreach activities and research and analysis of labor issues. It also represents the ILO to the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as well as other multilateral institutions and Washington-based organizations and facilitates donor coordination in technical cooperation activities.
 
Activities of the Washington Office focus on advancing the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda including:
 
  • Strengthening and disseminating knowledge on domestic and international labor issues.
  • Collaborating with Washington-based organizations on labor policies, data and research.
  • Supporting ILO missions in their interaction with key US stakeholders.
  • Facilitating technical advisory services.

What's New?

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    Press Release

    Global Employment Trends 2012: World faces a 600 million jobs challenge, warns ILO
    24 January 2012

    The world faces the “urgent challenge” of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion, according to the annual report on global employment by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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    Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis

    The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including unemployment, youth employment and working poverty.

Selected US Government Funded ILO Projects

  1. South-East Asia: Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Shrimp and Seafood Processing Areas in Thailand, ILO-IPEC, ILAB December 2010 – December 2014

    The IPEC Thailand project aims to bring about an industry that is child labour free and that offers decent work opportunities to workers, and especially children of legal working age. Three provincial areas (Samut Sakhon, Surat Thani and Songkhla) will be targeted where the shrimp industry is highly concentrated, representing migrant and Thai workforces.

  2. Africa: Child Labor in Cocoa Fields/ Harkin-Engel Protocol

    A Declaration of Joint Action that aims to reduce the worst forms of child labor by 70 percent across the cocoa sectors of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire by 2020 was signed on September 13, 2010.

  3. Americas: Eradicating Forced Labor from Global Supply Chains through Social Dialogue (2005-2011)

    The ILO has been assisting the Government of Brazil and its social partners in its efforts to eliminate forced labor since 2000. The project will strengthen management capacity of Brazilian suppliers and US buyers to reduce risks of trafficking and forced labor, while enhancing the National Pact for the Eradication of Slave Labor, launched in 2005.

Recent Reports

  1. Just released

    Global Employment Trends 2012
    24 January 2012

    The annual Global Employment Trends (GET) reports provide the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity and working poverty, while also analysing country-level issues and trends in the labour market.

  2. World of Work Report 2011
    October 31, 2011

    ILO says world heading for a new and deeper jobs recession, warns of more social unrest.
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