Decision on the first item on the agenda: Composition of the International Labour Conference: Proportion of women and men on delegations

Record of decisions | 09 November 2012

Decision on the first item on the agenda: Composition of the International Labour Conference: Proportion of women and men on delegations

The Governing Body:

(a) invited the Credentials Committee of the International Labour Conference (ILC) to consider more detailed reporting on the proportion of women and men accredited in Conference delegations, taking into account the views expressed in the discussion by the Governing Body at its 316th Session (November 2012);

(b) further invited the Credentials Committee to consider contacts with ILC delegations with consistently low female participation in order to receive information about the reasons and include the results in its report, with a view to improving the situation;

(c) requested the Director-General to send letters after every Conference to Members which have not reached a 30 per cent level of participation of women in ILC delegations, and to periodically report to the Governing Body on any obstacles encountered, as well as any measures taken to achieve gender parity;

(d) invited the Office to continue to collect relevant information and encourage and give assistance to concrete measures to be taken by governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations with a view to achieving gender parity in delegations to ILO meetings.

(Document GB.316/LILS/1, paragraph 13, as amended by the Governing Body.)