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Tripartite meeting on Labour Administration Facing the Jobs Crisis

Maritime Labour Convention

Norway ratifies ILO Maritime Labour Convention

The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway, H.E. Ms. Angell-Hansen, today deposited the instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, with the International Labour Organization on behalf of her Government. Norway is the first...

Opening speech at 4th China International Forum on Work Safety

By Ms Constance Thomas, Director, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

Questions & Answers

Questions and answers on Tripartite Expert Meetings on Flag State and Port State inspection guidelines under the Maritime Labour...

More than 300 senior representatives of seafarers and shipowners, along with governments, are to meet in Geneva between 15 and 26 September to discuss guidelines on flag-state and port-state inspection on board of ships under the Maritime Labour...

Ship Inspections

Media advisory - ILO to consider new guidelines on ship inspection under 2006 Maritime Labour Convention

More than 300 senior representatives of seafarers and shipowners, along with governments, are to meet here between 15 and 26 September to discuss guidelines on flag-state and port-state inspection on board of ships under the Maritime Labour...

ILO Training for labour inspectors

The United Nation's International Labour Organization (ILO), Subregional Office for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the Ministry of Urban Development, Culture, Labour and Electoral Matters, St. Vincent and the Grenadines will host a training...

297th Session of the ILO Governing Body (2-17 November 2006) ILO calls for "ambitious reforms" in labour inspection

The world's 120,000 labour inspectors face daunting challenges: preventing 2.2 million fatal occupational diseases and accidents each year and contributing to the fight against HIV/AIDS, child labour and forced labour. The Governing Body of the...

ILO calls for strengthening labour inspection worldwide

The International Labour Office (ILO) today proposed a new series of measures designed to "reinvigorate", modernize and strengthen labour inspectorates worldwide, in a move to boost the implementation of labour laws on the working conditions that...

Combating child labour: Lessons from the Turkish labour inspection experience

Over the last two years, more than 4,000 children and youth in three Turkish provinces have been withdrawn or prevented from entering the worst forms of child labour thanks to a labour inspection project launched by the ILO's International Programme...

ILO Governing Body opens 297th session: Labour situation in Belarus and Myanmar will be discussed, along with youth employment and labour...

The Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) will address a wide range of issues at its 297th session beginning here today, including basic labour rights in Myanmar and Belarus, the ILO response to the post-crisis situation in Lebanon...