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

Pilot training for small medium enterprises in footwear sector with LEFASO

2018 annual forum on Business and Human Rights

This year’s Annual Forum on Business and human rights focused on Corporate human rights due diligence - emerging practices, challenges and ways forward. ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, spoke in the high-level panel “Building coherence and reaching...

Responsible Supply Chains

Responsible Supply Chains in Asia Project Launch and Stakeholders Engagement

The ILO launches a new project on responsible supply chains in the Philippines with the EU and the OECD to promote corporate social responsibility and responsible business conduct with regard to decent work, international labour standards,...

Policy Working Group Meeting - Joint Briefing of Project Studies

Briefing Meeting on Cocoa Study with Selected Stakeholders in the Cocoa Sector

Workshop on raising awareness on ILO core conventions and labour commitments in the free trade agreements

The event is co-organized by ILO and VGCL with the aim to raise awareness for key trade union leaders, especially the newly elected presidents of FOLs, Industrial Unions on ILO core conventions.

2nd Tokyo 2020-ILO Sustainability Forum (10/17)

～Building Win-Win-Win partnerships towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games where all women and men shine ～

Child Labour Platform (CLP) Meeting

Child Labour Platform Global Meeting

The Child Labour Platform will hold the annual global meeting on 11-12 October 2018 in Geneva.

Training

International Labour Standards and Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding workers’ rights in the framework of due diligence

This five-day 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...

Effects of trade on employment

Workshop on Linking Labor Standards and Export Policies

The second-leg of the series of tripartite workshops to look into the links between the country’s export priorities and its employment effects was held on 04-05 October 2018. Gathering the tripartite stakeholders actively involved in the...

Policy Working Group Meeting to Review 2017 Activities

7th ASEAN Labour Inspection Conference: Strategic labour inspection for Decent Work including in global supply chains

The 7th ASEAN Labour Inspection Conference (ALIC) is hosted by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Viet Nam in HCM City with support from the ILO and the ASEAN Secretariat with the proposed theme "Strategic labour inspection for...

Effects of trade on employment

Tripartite Stakeholders Joint Workshop on Trade and Employment Policy-Making

With support from the EU-funded ILO STRENGTHEN project, tripartite stakeholders gathered on 07 September 2018 for the first installment of a workshop series seeking to enhance their capacity to understand the linkages between trade and employment,...

Awareness raising workshop on Child Labour

Viet Nam Association of Seafood exporters and producers (VASEP) in collaboration with ILO will organize a seminar to advocate and to raise awareness on child labour especially in the context of international integration among fishery business sector...

Occupational safety and health within sustainable sourcing policies of multinational enterprises

How are MNEs influencing their suppliers to improve OSH in agriculture? What are possible entry points for action? Join us to discuss research findings focusing on agriculture and textile.

Skills and trade

Togo: STED Capacity Building Training Workshop

The ILO has organized a STED capacity building training workshop in Lomé, Togo on 10-13 July 2018 for national and sectoral stakeholders including representatives from government ministries and apex organizations, representatives from workers’ and...

The second meeting of the series of sectoral consultations and social dialogues within policy working group members and representatives...

International labour standards and trade

Labour Standards and Trade: A Discussion on Decent Work and Sustainable Trade in Philippine Value Chains

A forum organized by International Labour Organization together with the EU-Philippines Business Network and the EU Delegation. It aims to highlight mutual gains of businesses and labour in being part of global value chains that follow international...

Training course on Social Responsible Labour Practices in the electronics sector in Viet Nam

Training

Multinational enterprises, development and decent work: the approach of the MNE Declaration

This five-day course will look at how governments, enterprises and the social partners are encouraged to each put policies in place and engage with each other through dialogue to maximize the positive contribution of multinational enterprises to...