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World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
When indigenous and world leaders meet, what does it mean for the ILO?
A historic meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York is set to bolster further ratification of the ILO’s Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention.
Moscow hosts international seminar of public employment services
On September 17-18, Russia’s Federal Service for Labour and Employment (Rostrud) held an international seminar for members of the World Association of Public Employment Services focusing on models of public employment service (PES): centralized and...
Corporate social responsibility
ILO and H&M sign unique agreement on sustainable global supply chains in the garment industry
New partnership will address industrial relations, wages, capacity building for social partners and skills development in global supply chains of the garment industry.
Child labour and businesses: role and opportunities for investors
Socially responsible investing groups have long been involved in the worldwide movement against child labour. Investors are increasingly interested in gathering robust information about the way companies manage the risk of child labour in their...
Cooperation
Sweden announces new partnership programme with the ILO
Agreement will provide SEK 100 million (US$ 15.4 million) for the period 2014-15 for initiatives promoting skills and jobs for youth and workers’ rights.
Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights Discussed at the Global Forum on Migration and Development
250 civil society organizations from over 75 countries participated in the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, on the margins of which a side event on migrant domestic workers was organized with an aim to share...
Youth employment
Sweden joins ILO initiative in Zambia for rural youth
The ILO-led UN Joint Programme with FAO on decent work and food security will create job opportunities for young entrepreneurs along agricultural value chains and will boost food security for rural populations in Zambia.
Sweden – a leader ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
Sweden is the 28th ILO Member and the eighth member of the European Union to ratify this landmark Convention.
ACTRAV Technical Cooperation
Azerbaijan introduces new mechanism to determine minimum wage
Within the framework of the second phase of Azerbaijan’s state programme for ensuring decent work new mechanisms and standards to determine a minimum wage will be established, Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alakbarov said in his...