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Organizing informal workers: trade union subregional meeting in Tbilisi
A subregional meeting of leaders of unions of workers engaged into informal labour relations was organized by the Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC), the ILO-ACTRAV and the StreetNet in Tbilisi...
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HIV/AIDS training in Russia: “To know means to live”
The 100th Session of the International Labour Conference also marks one year since the adoption of ILO Recommendation No. 200 – the first international human rights instrument to focus specifically on the issue of HIV/AIDS in the world of work. The...
“Working in Russia”: a step towards decent work for migrant workers
According to the 2011 ILO Global Report on Discrimination, migrant workers encounter discrimination on a daily basis. While many of them are already at risk of all kinds of abuse, they also became the first victims of the financial and economic...
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan to have common labour market soon
Russia ratifies ILO Occupational Safety and Health Convention
Tripartite meeting on Labour Administration Facing the Jobs Crisis
How Much Does Business Really Bring to HIV Response? Quantifying In-Kind and Financial Contributions of the Private Sector
HIV/AIDS
Learn about it at work: an HIV poster campaign in Russia
The proposed new standard on HIV/AIDS that is under discussion at the International Labour Conference is not only the first international human rights instrument to focus explicitly on HIV/AIDS. It also contains provisions on prevention programmes...
ILO Convention 185
Russia ratifies ILO’s Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention
The Russian Federation has ratified the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185) of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The Representative of the Russian Federation, Mr. Dmitry Gonchar, delivered Russia’s...
Conference on Decent Work Country Programme priorities
The sub-regional conference to set up the Decent Work priorities and anti-crisis response in five CIS countries – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan -- was organized by the ILO Moscow Office and the...
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...
Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference
On 28-30 October 2009 the Third regional Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference took place in Moscow. More than 2500 delegates from all CIS countries as well as from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and many other countries took part in the...
Russia's ILO unemployment rate down 100,000 people in August
Tripartite meeting on Labour Administration Facing the Jobs Crisis
Trainers come to enterprises of Kaliningrad
On September 15-17 an educational seminar for trainers on the prevention of stigma and discrimination at workplace was held in Kaliningrad under support of the Immunopathology Center. The event was organized within the framework of the ILO project...
Rights and Challenges of Women and Children Living with HIV: roundtable in Kazan
May 15, 2009, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan – Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, held a round table meeting on Rights and Challenges of Women and Children Living...
Unemployment in Russia hits 6.1 mln
Total number of Russia's unemployed goes up by 2% in October
Sub-regional Training “HIV/AIDS and the world of work” for constituents’ focal points
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