All events: responsible business conduct + multinational enterprises + trade + export processing zones + fair trade + free trade + trade liberalization + value chains + supply chains

Indonesia – Korea CSR Forum

The forum brings together more than 100 Korean companies and national business community leaders across Indonesia to further discuss and be more familiar with the guidance provided by global standards compliance and national regulations of Indonesia.

Social justice and growth: The role of the minimum wage

International Journal of Labour Research Launch of Vol. 4 Issue 1 and Panel Discussion

Confronting Finance: Mobilizing the 99% for economic and social progress

Book Lauch and Panel Discussion with Mr. Vasco Pedrina, Vice President of Building and Wood Workers International (BWI- Europe Region), Mr. Frank Hoffer, Senior Research Officer (ILO-ACTRAV) and Ms. Phumzile Ncube (Editor).

The ILO-IFC Better Work programme: improving working conditions and promoting competitiveness in global supply chains

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office

Disability in the Workplace and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network

Tuesday, 3 April 2012 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office

Tripartite Workshop on Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification in Kyrgyzstan

A workshop with representatives from relevant government and education institutions as well as employers' and workers' representatives from the respective sectors was organized in Bishkek to discuss and validate initial findings of conducted...

Webinar on Women’s Entrepreneurship Development: ILO experiences in assisting women entrepreneurs in starting-up a productive business with...

Tuesday 21 February 2012 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office

The Launch of a New Publication: “Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts”

In the era of globalization most economists and policy-makers have asserted, that trade liberalization has a strong potential to contribute to growth and that those effects will be beneficial for employment. However, survey evidence illustrates that...

Webinar on HIV and AIDS in the workplace: how companies can make the difference in prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS

Monday 28 November 2011 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office

Webinar on Eradicating Forced Labour from Global Supply Chains

Wednesday 26 October 2011 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office

Washington launch of the book "Making Globalization Socially Sustainable" at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

In collaboration with the International Labor Office (ILO), the Peterson Institute held a conference on October 4, 2011, to present key findings from the new ILO-WTO co-publication Making Globalization Socially Sustainable. The edited volume...

Launch of the joint ILO-WTO publication: Making Globalization Socially Sustainable

Globalization is widely seen as a powerful engine that has the potential to promote growth and development. For many years, however, concerns have also been raised about the effects of globalization on jobs and wages. This has led to questions about...

Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification in Macedonia: Enhancing local skills policies for the tourism and agro processing sectors...

A workshop with representatives from relevant government and education institutions as well as employers' and workers' representatives from the respective sectors was organized in Skopje in September 2011 to discuss and validate initial findings of...

Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification in Bangladesh: The Case of Agro Food and Pharmaceuticals Workshops

Workshops with representatives from relevant government and education institutions as well as employers' and workers' representatives from the respective sectors were organized in Dhaka in September and December 2011 to discuss and validate initial...

CSR Fundamentals: Spotlight on Labour in a Changing Japan and a Changing World

The ILO-Tokyo and BSR, a global NGO focusing on corporate responsibility, will organize a public seminar to look forward to how labour issues and emerging trends in Japan, and overseas where Japanese companies have operation or suppliers, are...

Development of Productive Capacities and Trade: the Key to Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

During this side-event to the LDC IV conference in Istanbul, ILO and other member agencies of the UN Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity will present a joint concept note outlining their view on the importance of trade and productive capacity...

Training for Specialists in Indonesia: Assessing the Effects of Trade on Employment

The training is aimed to strengthen the participants’ skills to empirically analyse the effects of trade on employment using Social Accounting Matrix and multiplier analysis. In so doing, the training lays down the base for researchers and analysts...

World Integrated Trade Solution Training

The training is aimed to build the capacity of social partners and government officials to analyse the effects of trade on employment and formulate coherent trade and employment policies.

A Series of Step-down Workshops on Financial Education for Migrant Workers and Their Families

Realizing to the poor understanding of migrant workers towards financial services and accesses, ILO Jakarta through its Combating Forced Labour and Trafficking of Indonesian Migrant Workers Project is developing a financial education programme for...

Knowledge Sharing Workshop on “Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment (ETE)”

To benefit from the free trade agreements trade and employment policies should be in coherence, this way the goal for achieving decent work for all can be ensured.