News and articles

November 2020

  1. COVID-19 Pandemic: How does the ILO support workers’ organizations?

    05 November 2020

    Since March 2020, the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) has been at the forefront to ensure that workers’ organizations have the information and assistance they need to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here some services and actions provided by ACTRAV towards workers'organizations across the world...

May 2019

  1. Unions in Moldova and Azerbaijan sign a cooperation agreement

    13 May 2019

October 2016

  1. Towards Trade Union Unity in Uganda

    12 October 2016

    With the support of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers ‘Activities (ACTRAV), 42 unions adopted a resolution to enhance trade union unity in Uganda.

July 2015

  1. ITUC-PERC/ILO Workshop for Central Asian trade unions: "Trade union youth and their role in organising"

    20 July 2015

    Young Trade Union Activists in Central Asia to improve unions’ efficiency

April 2015

  1. Strong communications can boost activities in Asia-Pacific, unions say

    20 April 2015

July 2014

  1. India: 11 unions oppose moves to weaken union organising

    29 July 2014

March 2014

  1. Helen Kelly: "In many countries, being a trade union activist is risky"

    31 March 2014

    Unions in Asia and the Pacific must use the ILO’s supervisory mechanisms to demand respect of freedom of association and collective bargaining in their countries. This is the opinion of Helen Kelly who chairs the New Zealand Council of Trade Union (NZCTU). In this interview, Ms. Kelly gives her views about the situation of workers' rights in Fiji and Bangladesh. She also underlines the need for New Zealand to ratify several ILO core conventions to respect workers’ rights.

  2. Workers’ Group pays tribute to trade unionist Marc Blondel

    17 March 2014

September 2013

  1. Interview with Maria Helena André, Director of ACTRAV

    30 September 2013

    The recently appointed Director of the Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), Ms Maria Helena André wants to strengthen her department’s services for ILO’s worker constituents. A trade unionist and Portugal’s former Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity (2009-2011), Ms André talks here about gender equality within the trade union movement and shares her thoughts about the theme of the World Day for Decent Work on 7th October.

  2. Tribute to the trade unionist Basile Mahan Gahé, champion of tripartism

    17 September 2013

    The general secretary of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Côte d’Ivoire ( Dignité), Basile Mahan Gahé, died in Abidjan on Monday 16th September 2013. After being released on bail in December 2012 following several months’ detention, Mr Gahé was in Geneva for the 102nd session of the International Labour Conference in June 2013 to thank ILO and the international trade union movement who had fought for his release. In tribute to the recently departed African trade unionist, here is the last interview he gave to ACTRAV INFO, during his stay in Geneva.