September 2009

1. Strategic Collective Bargaining for Employers - Road Show

   7 - 18 September 2009

   Collective Bargaining is still not well known and not well used by many South East Asian countries. It is important for employers to understand that collective bargaining is one of important business tools and when used well it will give business both commercial and operational advantage. Strategic collective bargaining will improve productivity, efficiency and competitiveness of the business.

2. Launch of the Alliance for Women Workers' Rights

   6 September 2009

   A follow up to the ILO Dhaka Gender Audit Recommendation with the aim of promoting women workers rights at the workplace.

August 2009

1. National Awareness Raising Workshop on Protecting Your Employees and Business from Pandemic Human Influenza in the Workplace

   27 August 2009

   This workshop is to raise national awareness on pandemic human influenza, provide a forum to meet with experts and specialists and learn practical ways to reduce risk of pandemic human influenza.

2. Agreement signing ceremony between Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and NGOs to implement child labour programmes under the ILO-DCC Action Program on Child Labour

   20 August 2009

   Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has signed an agreement with five national NGOs namely, Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Resource Integration Center, Nari Moitree, Center for Development Services and Population Services and Training Center under the ILO-DCC Action Program on Child Labour. The signing ceremony was held on 20 August 2009 at the Dhalpur Community Center of DCC.

3. ILO celebrates the International Indigenous Peoples' Day

   10 August 2009

   A book launching programme was organized by ILO Office in Bangladesh in cooperation with the Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on 10 August 2009.

4. 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific

   9 - 13 August 2009

   Under the theme, "Empowering People, Strengthening Networks" the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), will bring together people from throughout Asia and the Pacific to share knowledge, skills, ideas, and research findings related to HIV and AIDS. During the congress, the ILO is to address workers' vulnerabilities to HIV in Asia and the Pacific including sessions on the impact of the global economic crisis on migration and HIV, skills-building sessions on communications, advocacy and stopping discrimination in the workplace. At the same time, the ILO will also examine how a new [draft] ILO human rights instrument will help address the challenge of HIV/AIDS in the region.

5. National Awareness Raising Workshop on Protecting Your Employees and Business from Pandemic Human Influenza in the Workplace

   5 August 2009

   This workshop is to raise national awareness on pandemic human influenza, provide a forum to meet with experts and specialists and learn practical ways to reduce risk of pandemic human influenza.

July 2009

1. Workshop on Sector Development Strategy for Agro-Food Processing Sector

   31 July - 1 August 2009

   Mr Dilip Barua, Honorable Minister for Industries was the chief guest at the Agro-Food Processing Sector Development Strategy Workshop organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) Reform Project held at the UNI Resort in Cox’s Bazar mid August.

2. National Awareness Raising Workshop on Protecting Your Employees and Business from Pandemic Human Influenza in the Workplace

   21 July 2009

   This workshop is to raise national awareness on pandemic human influenza, provide a forum to meet with experts and specialists and learn practical ways to reduce risk of pandemic human influenza.

3. Training of Trainers Workshop on Protecting Your Employees and Business from Pandemic Human Influenza

   20 - 21 July 2009

   This workshop provide updated information on Pandemic Human Influenza and practical measures to help small enterprises in prepartation for a future pandemic and to initiate them to organize trainings.

June 2009

1. Training of Trainers Workshop on Applying Manual & Action Checklist to Protect Workers and Farmers from Avian Influenza

   25 - 26 June 2009

   This workshop provide updated information on Avian Influenza and practical measures to help poultry farmers and slaughterhouse workers prepare and control Avian Influenza in the workplace and to initiate them to organize trainings.

2. Training of Trainers Workshop on Protecting Your Employees and Business from Pandemic Human Influenza

   15 - 16 June 2009

   This workshop provide updated information on Pandemic Human Influenza and practical measures to help small enterprises in prepartation for a future pandemic and to initiate them to organize trainings.

3. World Day against Child labour

   12 June 2009

   Every year on June 12 activities are held throughout Asia and the Pacific to mark World Day against Child Labour. The theme for this year is: “Give girls a chance: End child labour”, and the ILO has released a new report: Give girls a chance: Tackiling child labour, a key to the future.

4. World Day Against Child Labour 2009 in Dhaka

   11 - 12 June 2009

   World Day Against Child Labour aims to promote awareness and action to end child labour. This year we are putting special focus on the plight of girls who often endure additional hardships as victims of child labour. Support for the World Day has been growing each year and 2009 will be no exception. Various activities will be taking place around the Dhaka city involving governments, employers, workers, civil society organizations and concerned individuals who care about protecting the rights of children. We invite you to join us this World Day and every day as part of the growing worldwide movement to eliminate child labour.

5. 

   98th International Labour Conference

   3 - 19 June 2009

   The International Labour Conference – the annual gathering of the ILO’s global membership – is meeting in Geneva.

May 2009

1. ILO/IOE/CAPE Regional Employers' Meeting on Human Resources Development for Competitiveness

   18 - 20 May 2009

   Employers are the principal market for skills. They are also part of the skills development system as developers, providers of incentives and policy-setters. They need to send the right signals to the educational and formal training establishment, and should work with the authorities to create the right policy environment that would optimise the performance of the human resources development system as a whole.

2. Asia Pacific Conference on "Right to Form Unions and Right to Collective Bargaining: A Campaign for Ratification and Implementation of ILO Conventions 87 and 98"

   6 - 8 May 2009

   The ILO Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and the Protection of Right to Organise and Convention 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining are the basis to provide and provide for rights and protection against abuse and violation of these rights. Most of the governments in the region have not ratified either or both the Conventions. This Conference is about identifying strategies and launching an aggressive campaign for the ratification of these Conventions.

3. Philippine Tripartite Constituents Support Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Unanimous Call for an International Convention to Set Standards

   3 May - 21 August 2009

   The Philippine government, workers groups and employers groups have collaborated together with non-government organizations, faith-based institutions, local and overseas domestic workers groups as they embark on the Philippine Campaign on Decent Work for Domestic Workers.

4. High Level Forum on "Social Dialogue and Decent Work: Our Challenges"

   3 May 2009

April 2009

1. ILO/SKILLS-AP/KUT Workshop Fellowship on Human Resources Development Policies in Asia and the Pacific, Korea University of Technology and Education (KUT)

   27 April - 1 May 2009