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

Joint ILO-GTFA conference

Joint ILO-GTFA conference - Globalization and Employment: Global Shocks, Structural Change and Policy Response

Leaders from International Organizations, NGOs and academia met at this conference organized by the ILO and the GTFA project to discuss the employment implications of instability in global markets.

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John Ruggie’s “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Business and Human Rights Framework

Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, presented his "protect, respect and remedy" framework, laying the foundations of a system for...

Training on basic concepts of “International Trade and Employment”

“Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment (ETE)”, an ILO European Union funded project and the International Training Centre (ITC) ILO jointly organized a training on basic concepts of “International Trade and Employment” for...

Promoting Economic Diversity in Ukraine: The role of the business enabling environment, skills policies and export promotion

Expert meeting on Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment

High-Level Forum on “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization”

The High-Level Forum “Decent Work: A Key to Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” held in Oslo on 5 September 2008 was the first public international discussion of the ILO Declaration on “Social Justice for a Fair Globalization” (June 2008), and...

MULTI Forum 2007: 30th anniversary of the ILO’s Declaration on Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy

The ILO will commemorate the anniversary with a number of events, including a special Forum to be held on 15-16 November, 2007. The Forum will draw prominent executives and labour representatives from around the world, and provide an extraordinary...

High-Level Tripartite Meeting on the Nexus of Growth, Investment and Decent Work for South Asian Subregion

The meeting tapped the knowledge of the ILO constituents, other multilateral institutions including the IFIs, the donor community and researchers by focusing on the policy mix, policy coherence and policy sequencing at national and subregional...

Presentation of databases on trade by International Trade Centre of UNCTAD and WTO

A presentation of databases on trade, country competitiveness and market access developed by the International Trade Centre of UNCTAD and WTO took place at ILO Headquarters on 21 October 2005. The ITC representative shared lessons learned in...

Driving systems change for employment

Essentials for market systems development and decent work