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April 2022

  1. Comment

    Social dialogue for safe workplaces

    29 April 2022

    Opinion written by Dagmar Walter, Director, ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for South Asia and Country Office for India on World Safety and Health at Work Day, published in The Hindu

  2. © Better Work 2022

    Better Work

    Report shows rebound of Jordan’s garment sector amid ongoing labour concerns

    19 April 2022

    Better Work Jordan’s 2022 annual report showed improving business conditions in the sector and progress on working conditions. Exports partially rebounded in the country’s garment sector from the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 2022

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    GB roundup

    Highlights of the 344th session of the ILO Governing Body

    30 March 2022

    The Governing Body of the International Labour Organization concluded on 25 March. ILO News discussed the key elements with Dimitrina Dimitrova, Deputy Director of the ILO’s Official Meetings, Documentation and Relations Department.

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    Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

    ILO Governing Body agrees on key occupational safety and health discussion at International Labour Conference 2022

    18 March 2022

    An amendment to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, to include occupational safety and health, will be discussed during the 110th session of the International Labour Conference.

  3. © G. Megevand / ILO 2022

    Labour inspection

    Labour inspections to be strengthened following ILO Governing Body decision

    17 March 2022

    New guidelines on labour inspections will complement existing International Labour Organization Conventions and advance respect for labour rights in the world of work.

February 2022

  1. Statement

    Statement of the Officers of the Special Tripartite Committee: the continuing negative impact of the pandemic on seafarers’ rights

    11 February 2022

    Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

November 2021

  1. © Vitor Marinho 2022

    Social protection

    ILO reaches ratification target for landmark social security Convention

    08 November 2021

    Paraguay has become the 60th country to ratify the flagship ILO social security Convention, No.102, reaching a target set in 2012 by the ILO’s Governing Body.

October 2021

  1. COVID-19

    Joint IMO/ILO statement on upholding medical assistance obligations to seafarers and accelerating seafarer vaccination programmes

    06 October 2021

    The heads of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have issued a joint statement calling for port and coastal States to allow seafarers to receive medical care.

July 2021

  1. Workers' rights

    ILO Observation Mission Announcement in Mexico

    30 July 2021

    Collective Bargaining Agreement Vote – GM plant, Silao, Guanajuato.

June 2021

  1. © Alex Proimos 2022

    Domestic work – Convention C189

    10 years on, domestic workers still fight for equality and decent work

    15 June 2021

    On the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Domestic Workers’ Convention, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed continued vulnerabilities of domestic workers in the labour market.