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Milestone ratifications of seafarers’ labour rights charter

The ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention has now been ratified by 30 countries, meaning it will go into effect in a year’s time. The charter sets out the labour rights of the world’s 1.2 million seafarers.

Events Report: 2012 World Day for Safety and Health at Work

The document outlines the activities that took place around the world on the occasion of the 2012 SafeDay.

What are the challenges behind Russia’s plan to boost job creation?

Russia recently announced an ambitious plan to create 25 million high productivity jobs by 2020. Olga Koulaeva, Employment Specialist at the ILO Moscow office, analyses Russian labour market challenges in an interview with ILO News.

Increasing protection of migrant workers in the Russian Federation and enhancing development impact of migration in the South Caucasus...

Project RER/08/05/EEC - Evaluation consultant: Anna Charpin

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...

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.

PROJECT BRIEF Sustainable Integration and Recovery in North Ossetia-Alania (ILO component)

A Skilled Workforce for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth.

Employment and labour market strategies in Russia in the context of innovations economy:

proceedings of the Conference organized jointly by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation and the International Labour Organization, Moscow, 15 September 2011/ International Labour Offi ce, ILO Decent Work Technical...

SIYB Entrepreneurs' Level Materials

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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National Labour Law Profile: Russian Federation

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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...

Radiation safety and protection of workers in nuclear and radiological emergency operations

Workers working in response to the emergency at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear plant are exposed to traditional OSH risks including explosion and fire as well as to radiation. The International Basic Safety Standards for Protection...

The Prime Minister and the President of Russia on OSH

The direct and indirect costs of poor working conditions, occupational accidents and diseases, for the society, enterprises and the individual, are enormous. It is always better and less expensive to prevent that to pay the cost of compensation,...

European Court of Human Rights holds that refusal of a residence permit to a foreigner on the basis of his HIV-positive status was...

In its decision of 10 March 2011 in Kiyutin v. Russia (Application No. 2700/10), the European Court of Human Rights held unanimously that the refusal of the Russian authorities to grant a residency permit to a national of Uzbekistan on the basis of...

European Court of Human Rights - Judgement of 10 March 2011 (Application No. 2700/10)