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320th session of the Governing Body

Luc Cortebeeck: “A major step forward was taken at this Governing Body session”

The 320th session of the ILO Governing Body drew to a close on 27 March 2014 in Geneva. In this interview, Workers’ Group Chair Luc Cortebeeck looks at several of the issues discussed during this session. Major topics included the application of...

Decent work

ILO Head and Danish Prime Minister discuss EU employment and workers’ rights

Danish Prime Minister announces additional funds for the ILO’s work on improving workers’ rights in developing countries during a meeting with the ILO Director-General.

Workers’ rights in the Asia Pacific Region

Helen Kelly: "In many countries, being a trade union activist is risky"

Unions in Asia and the Pacific must use the ILO’s supervisory mechanisms to demand respect of freedom of association and collective bargaining in their countries. This is the opinion of Helen Kelly who chairs the New Zealand Council of Trade Union...

South-South Cooperation

ILO-ACTRAV sign agreement with All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)

ILO Governing Body

Committee on Freedom of Association: Protecting rights, saving lives

In the last decade alone, more than 2,000 trade unionists worldwide have been released from prison following an examination by the CFA. Watch a backstage interview with Committee members Paul van der Heijden (Chairman), employers’ representative...

Domestic workers

Lebanon’s Domestic Workers Committee commemorates both Women’s and Mother’s days by demanding better working conditions.

Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon call on the government to grant them their rights in line with international standards during a celebration of both Women’s and Mother’s days.

Dialogue Social

Egypt: Bipartite agreement signed between unions and employers in Port Said

Labour Standards

Somalia ratifies three fundamental ILO Conventions

Somalia ratifies the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)

Why the European Social Model is still relevant

"In some countries, key elements of the ESM have been radically transformed, and sometimes dismantled, even though they clearly were not the cause of the crisis or the budgetary deficits," says ILO Senior labour economist Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.

320th Session of the Governing Body

Workers’ Group pays tribute to trade unionist Marc Blondel

Interview

Challenges and opportunities for trade unions in 2014

Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), discusses achievements of the global trade union movement in 2013 and new challenges coming up this year. She stresses the role of the ILO in the fight for...

319th Governing Body of the ILO

Interview with Luc Cortebeeck, Chair of the Workers’ Group of the ILO Governing Body

The 319th session of the ILO Governing Body recently drew to a close in Geneva. Tackled at this session were several issues concerning the economic crisis in Europe, workers’ rights and international migration. In this interview the Chair of the...

319th Governing Body

ILO Governing Body adopts report of the Committee on Freedom of Association

The Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA) draws special attention to three serious and urgent country cases.

Labour standards

ILO Deputy Director General calls for faster implementation of the new labour law in Bangladesh

Opening the conference “Bangladesh 2013: The Rising Demand for Labour Standards”, ILO Deputy Director General Gilbert Houngbo called for faster implementation of the new labour law to protect workers after the Rana Plaza building collapse...

Statement of the Workers Group on the Unlawful Deregistration of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU)

Labour standards and Social Dialogue

Georgia : A new start to promote ILO Standards and strengthen Social Dialogue

Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC) launched a new program for the promotion and the ratification of ILO Conventions for the period 2013-2017 and strengthening social dialogue.

The ILO – Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and the Trade Unions in India

Asia Pacific Regional Symposium on the follow up to the Campaign for Ratification and Application of ILO Conventions 87 (Freedom of Association)and 98 (Collective Bargaining)

International labour standards

ILO statement on reform of Bangladesh labour law

Amendments to the Bangladesh labour Act 2006 were adopted on 15 July 2013. Its conformity with international labour standards ratified by Bangladesh will be reviewed by the ILO supervisory machinery later in the year.

318th Governing Body

ILO Governing Body adopts reports of the Committee on Freedom of Association

The Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA) draws special attention to three serious and urgent country cases while noting progress in others.

102nd International Labour Conference

ILO lifts remaining restrictions on Myanmar

The restrictions were related to the country’s non compliance of the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29).