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Keynote speech at the National Conference on Future of Industrial Relations and the Revision of Labour Code and Trade Union Law

By Mr Kari Tapiola, Executive Director, ILO Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Hanoi on 1 April 2010

What works in overcoming the jobs crisis?

ILO seminar looks at experiences that worked in mitigating the crisis' effects

307th ILO Governing Body

ILO Commission of Inquiry emphasizes the role of the process of national healing and reconciliation in ensuring freedom of association...

An ILO Commission of Inquiry recently released its report entitled “Truth, reconciliation and justice in Zimbabwe”. The independent Commission of Inquiry, composed of high-level independent legal experts, had been mandated to examine the observance...

Garment workers to compete using their knowledge of the Cambodian labour law

The ILO Better Factories Cambodia in partnership with Radio Mohanokor FM93.5 is launching a radio competition allowing garment workers to compete using their knowledge of the Cambodia’s labour law.

Collective bargaining

Negotiating for social justice: Collective bargaining in times of crisis

This year marks the 60th anniversary of ILO Convention No. 98 on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining. While much has changed since the Convention was adopted in 1949, collective bargaining remains a fundamental right, an important tool...

Signing Ceremony V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, India and the National Institute of Labour Studies, Sri Lanka

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

Thai trade unions press for ratification of ILO Conventions on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

Some 30 leaders of 12 Thai national trade unions expressed concern about restrictive labour rights and announced an advocacy campaign directed at ensuring the Thai Government ratifies core international labour standards covering freedom of...

Sub-Regional Workshop on Negotiating Decent Work in the Age of Globalization in South Asia and China Ahungalla Sri Lanka 26-27 October 2009

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

Press statement of the Philippines High-Level Mission on Freedom of Association and the Protection of the Right to Organize Convention

The ILO High-Level Mission to the Philippines wishes to express its sincere appreciation to the Government of the Philippines, its independent agencies and the workers’ and employers’ organizations of the country for the full cooperation and the...

High Level ILO mission to the Philippines on Convention No. 87 Freedom of Association and Right to Organize

A High Level Mission of the ILO will visit the Philippines from 22-29 September 2009 to review matters relating to the application in law and in practice of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention (No. 87),...

Tripartite collective agreement signed in Armenia

Commission of Inquiry on Zimbabwe

Commission of Inquiry on Zimbabwe begins its work, mindful of the process of dialogue and reconciliation underway in the country

The Commission of Inquiry, set up by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office at its 303rd Session (November 2008) to examine complaints concerning the observance by Zimbabwe of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to...

ILO-Thai Trade Unions discuss effective responses to the global economic crisis

The ILO recently organized the ILO/Thai Trade Unions High-Level Workshop on Effective Trade Union Responses to the Global Economic Crisis in Bangkok for 50 participants comprising of labour leaders, union members and unionists.

ILO Training Workshop for senior labour officials

Statement from the ILO on detained labour activists in Myanmar

The ILO calls upon the government to review and reverse the sentences of six labour activists in Myanmar.The persons concerned should be released without delay.

ILO launches first in a series of training workshops for labour officials

Opening Address to the 82nd ICFTU-APRO Regional Executive Board Meeting

by Mr Gek-Boo Ng, Regional Director of ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific