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June 2020

  1. Syria: IV Brussels Conference

    Statement by the ILO Director-General to the Brussels IV Conference supporting Syria and the region

    30 June 2020

    “Let us focus on building back better with a human-centred approach with and for refugees and their host communities,” ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has said to the Brussels IV Conference on supporting the future of Syria and the region, convened by the EU.

May 2019

  1. Future of Work

    Social dialogue delivers results

    07 May 2019

    ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, underlined the importance of social dialogue at a Centenary conference on ‘The Future of Work’ in Belgium.

June 2016

  1. News

    Belgium ratifies the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167), and the Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175)

    08 June 2016

February 2016

  1. European Parliament hearing

    Refugees - social inclusion and integration into the labour market

    18 February 2016

    At a hearing organized by the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, Ryszard Cholewinski, Migration policy specialist at the ILO, discussed the integration of refugees into the labour market.

October 2014

  1. Statement

    Sandra Polaski: "important improvements still required in many areas"

    20 October 2014

    At an ILO-EU stocktaking meeting on the Sustainability Compact for Bangladesh, ILO Deputy Director-General Sandra Polaski said that despite important progress made in terms of labour conditions, a lot of work still remains to be done.

March 2011

  1. News

    Flemish Government (Belgium) signs new cooperation agreement with ILO

    21 March 2011

October 2010

  1. Statement

    Awareness-raising campaigns on trafficking in human beings, by Caroline O’Reilly, Brussels, October 2010

    19 October 2010

    Delivered at the Anti-trafficking Day Conference, 18-19 October 2010, during the panel on “Presentation Exchange of best practices: Awareness-raising campaigns”