Publications

Policy Brief on sexual harassment in the entertainment industry

25 November 2020

The Violence and Harassment Recommendation, 2019 (No. 206) includes entertainment among sectors and occupations which may be particularly exposed to violence and harassment. Against this background, this brief analyses trends and patterns of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, and it provides a picture of relevant laws and other means to protect workers in the industry.

Globalization and the sectors

01 January 2006

This issue of Labour Education 2006/1,No. 142 on “globalization and the sectors”, does not set out to be exhaustive. The Global Union Federations (GUFs) have to battle on many fronts. They encounter problems that are specifi c to their sectors.However, their efforts all feed into a joint approach to the challenges facing the trade union movement in the world today. Those challenges include promoting respect for human and trade union rights worldwide and defending equality, as well as strengthening the ranks of the trade union movement and its capacity to mobilize, negotiate and bring a sectoral approach to bear on the aim of decent work for all.

Multimedia convergence: Breaking the silence

02 January 1998

Labour Education 1998/1-2 Nos. 110-111: What silence? It might seem absurd to many to address the question of multimedia convergence as the process affects workers in terms of breaking the silence. For such silence has become strident, and surrounds all the issues connected with the process of convergence.The columns which follow are part of the ILO’s efforts to ensure that the discussions which took place during the ILO Symposium onmultimedia convergence (27-29 January 1997) be addressed in further depth by experts who are close to workers’ everyday experiences of convergence.

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