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EU to allocate €1.9 billion to Eastern Parnership's members

Workshop on Strengthening Labour Law Compliance in Ukraine: Way Forward (Kyiv, 5 February 2013)

Within the framework of Canadian and Norwegian-founded ILO projects, the ILO organised a workshop on the importance of tripartite cooperation amongst labour inspectorates and social partners and the use of new technologies to enhance the...

National Workshop on labour administration and inspection in Sri Lanka (Colombo, 19-21 September 2012)

With support from the ILO Project on Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in Sri Lanka, Mr. Ludek Rickly, Senior Labour Administration/Inspection Specialist (LAB/ADMIN) and Mr. Algandram Sivananthiram (ILO Consultant) presented the...

Training of heads of labour inspection in Ukraine

The ILO organized a three days training for the heads of central units and local offices of labour inspection services in Ukraine, from 18 to 20 September 2012.

Ukraine launched campaign promoting the role of labour inspection

Under the Canadian funded project “Promoting Collective Bargaining and Labour Law Compliance in Ukraine” the ILO provided support to the labour relations inspectorate, the occupational safety and health inspectorate and social partners to organize a...

Ukraine adopts the National Tripartite Cooperation Strategy on HIV and AIDS in the World of Work

Azerbaijan’s Trade Unions Confederation in talks to sign agreements with foreign trade unions

The Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan has been conducting talks to conclude agreements with trade unions of Ukraine, Turkey and Russia’s Leningrad and Astrakhan regions envisioning mutual social protection of migrant workers, the...

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...

Tajik remittances from Russia top 700m dollars in second quarter of 2011

In the second quarter of 2011 alone, 742m dollars was sent through money transfer from Russia to Tajikistan, the Central Bank of Russia has announced.

UN Ministerial Conference, 2009

UN Ministerial Conference meets to review social policy options for a region, hard hit by the global economic crisis

The global economic and financial crisis has affected all countries, and Kazakhstan was no exception. In early 2009 the country faced a difficult situation on the labour market, particularly in oil- and gas-producing regions, Gulshara Abdykalikova,...

UN Ministerial Conference, 2009

UN Ministerial Conference to address the social impact of the economic crisis in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey

High-level representatives from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey will examine regional policy responses to the economic crisis at a UN Ministerial Conference jointly organized by four U.N. agencies (the ILO, UNICEF, FAO and UNDP) and hosted...

Gender equality at the heart of decent work, Campaign 2008-09

From high fashion ‘alta moda’ to dress-making in Ukraine

At 16 per cent, the region of Chernivtsi in Ukraine has the highest unemployment rate in the country and the lowest number of women employed. This is why the region was chosen for an ILO project, funded by Development Cooperation Ireland, that...

Collaborating for change: Government, teachers and trade unions join the fight against HIV/AIDS in Ukraine

According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, annual HIV diagnoses in Ukraine have more than doubled since 2001, reaching 16,000 in 2006. However the Government is also taking urgent steps to respond.

Tashkent hosts conference on occupational safety and health.

On May 21-24, Tashkent hosted a conference on occupational safety and health problems organized by the Council of Trade Unions Federation of Uzbekistan.