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

Research Seminar

How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic...

Seminar

Responsible Business Conduct and Decent Work in Global Supply Chains

A seminar with students from South China University to introduce key CSR concepts, training on relevant international policy frameworks and initiatives and debate about their efficiency and coherence.

Knowledge building on productivity management in garments sector and sustainable integration in global supply chain

Knowledge building workshop in collaboration with State Government of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh to promote learning among apparel manufacturers in the two states about some practical and low-cost tips from lead buyers, Apparel Export Promotion...

Webinar

Joint ILO-WTO Webinar on Gender, trade and labour market outcomes in Covid times

The Webinar will bring together academics, experts from international organisations, including from the WTO and ILO to discuss gender, trade and labour market outcomes with a specific emphasis on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected employment,...

Brown Bag Lunch

Effects of a transition for environmental sustainability on labour and trade: literature review

The working paper reviews the extant theoretical and empirical literature on the environment, labour, and trade.

Policy Dialogue on 'Building a market responsive, resilient, and inclusive MSME ecosystem for job rich and sustainable growth'

Policy dialogue to share support knowledge building of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in designing of evidence-based policy initiatives for catalysing sector-led growth by sharing efforts made by Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, and South Korea, in...

Launch Event

Launch: ILO Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub

Launch of the Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub (LP Hub) - a one-stop shop for information on labour provisions in more than 100 regional trade agreements in over 140 economies.

Gendered effects of trade liberalization on labour market outcomes in Malawi

Rural Sectors in the Philippines

ILO Consults Partners on a Baseline Study and Sectoral Assessment for the Rural Sectors in the Philippines

The International Labour Organization (ILO) Project on Improving Workers' Rights in the Rural Sectors of the Indo-Pacific with a focus on Women conducted an online Inception Workshop to consult tripartite partners in the Philippines on the proposed...

Webinar, 16 Nov

Regional Trade Union Workshop for promoting decent work and socially responsible labour practices in global supply chains

This regional forum will aim to build the capacity of trade union organisations and enable workers and unions to strategically use international instruments in the field of Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) (ILO MNE Declaration, OECD Guidelines on...

OSH and gender in the fishing industry

Briefing on promoting labour laws compliance, OSH and gender in the fishing industry

The ILO Project on Improving Workers' Rights in the Rural Sectors of the Indo-Pacific with a focus on Women, briefed the Fishing Industry Tripartite Council (Fishing ITC) in Region XII on the project background, target outcomes, strategies and...

Advancing International Labour Standards and Socially Responsible Labour Practices on the “Belt and Road”

Webinar, 2 November 2021

ILO-CEC Workshop on Advancing International Labour Standards and socially responsible labour practices on the “belt and road”

Mianyang, Sichuan Province

Trade and Labour Market in Viet Nam

Responsible Labour Practices in Global Supply Chains

A Webinar for Masters students in Nottingham University Business School China.

2021 Annual Meeting of the Child Labour Platform

Pledges on Child Labour in Supply Chains: what difference have they made?

Join us for the 2021 Edition of the ILO Child Labour Platform Annual Meeting and hear from Pledgemakers focusing their efforts on supply chains discuss what progress has been made so far in the framework of the International Year for the Elimination...

Decent work in the banana industry

Review of the Voluntary Code of Good Practices on decent work in the banana industry

Government, workers and employers from the banana industry in the Davao region had a dialogue to review and update the Voluntary Code of Good Practices (VCGP) to promote decent work amid the COVID-19 pandemic and changing demand of the global market.

Training

International labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the labour dimension of human rights due diligence

Online course aims to strengthen the capacity of participants to understand the principles of international labour standards as they relate to company operations (including due diligence related to labour rights) and how those principles can be most...

Conference: Building the future of work and trade

Jointly organized by the ILO’s EMPLOYMENT and RESEARCH departments, the ILO Country Office for Mexico and Cuba, and the European Commission, this online conference is part of two EU funded projects “Building partnerships on the future of work” and...

Webinar

Training Equitably: Gender-Sensitive Approaches to Supporting Women in Business