Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)

  • ILO100

    ILO Centenary Ratification Campaign

    The campaign invites governments, trade unions and employers’ organizations in all 187 member States of the Organization to take action to ensure that their State ratifies at least one international labour Convention or Protocol in the course of 2019.

  • International Women’s Day

    Work-related gender gaps persist but solutions are clear – new ILO report

    Work-related gender gaps have not seen any meaningful improvement for 20 years, but a new ILO report says that the path to progress is clear.

  • Social Dialogue

    Strengthening workers’ voices—ILO trains trade union leaders and lawyers

    Trade unions across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) experience that the rights of workers are under threat and have voiced concerns over attempts to undermine organized labour.

  • 14-15 February 2019

    The Future of Work We Want: Workers' Perspectives from the Caribbean

    The conference will bring together together representatives from trade unions, governments, academia as well as employers to discuss the developments that are driving the world of work in the future.

  • ILO100

    Setting standards for decent work

    Developing international labour standards at the ILO is a unique process involving governments, workers and employers from around the world working together. Find out more about the ILO’s mission to advance social justice and promote decent work in chapter 2 of our new multimedia, interactive Centenary website.

What's new

  1. Disability and Trade Unions

    The inclusion of workers with Disabilities is crucial to achieving SDGs

    20 March 2019

  2. ILO Centenary

    Perm Hosts the ILO Centenary and the Future of Work Conference

    07 March 2019

  3. Social dialogue

    Strengthening workers’ voices—ILO trains trade union leaders and lawyers

    19 February 2019

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Meetings and events

  1. The Future of Work We Want: Workers' Perspectives from the Caribbean

    14 - 15 February 2019

  2. The Future of Work We Want: Workers' Perspectives from Central and Lusophone African Countries

    26 - 27 September 2018

  3. Third Meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

    23 - 27 April 2018

Multimedia

  1. Video

    Why young workers should be engaged in the struggle of climate change?

    22 February 2019

  2. Video

    What is the current progress in terms of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the Caribbean?

    22 February 2019

  3. Video

    What are the strategies adopted by the Unions to reduce the gender pay gap in the public services?

    22 February 2019

Key resources

  1. International Labour Standards

    Recommendation No. 205 on Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience: What Role for Trade Unions?

  2. SDGs

    Trade Union Reference Manual on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

  3. Violence and Harassment at Work

    Violence and Harassment against Women and Men in the World of Work-Trade Union Perspective and Action