All ILO Newsroom content
April 2010
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Statement
Forced labour in Europe: cases, concepts and action, by Undine Groeger, Copenhagen, April 2010
14 April 2010
Presentation to the conference on “Human Trafficking”, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 April 2010
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Article
Flyer for The ILO amd the Quest for Social Justice
10 April 2010
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Article
Flyer for Edward Phelan and the ILO
10 April 2010
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Publication
Strengthening the HIV/AIDS response: Towards a new international labour standard - ILO constituents strengthen their leadership in the HIV/AIDS response
01 April 2010
The ILO will reach a major milestone in the global response to HIV/AIDS when the International Labour Conference votes on the adoption of an international standard on HIV/AIDS and the world of work in June 2010, almost a decade after the launching of the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS. Once the standard is adopted by the representatives of governments, employers and workers of ILO member States, it will be the first international human rights instrument entirely dedicated to HIV/AIDS and applicable to all workers in all sectors, formal and informal, as well as to jobseekers, laid-off workers and persons in vocational training.
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Publication
US domestic workers find their voice
01 April 2010
The achievement of decent work for domestic workers ultimately depends on their capacity to organize and engage in collective action. Ground-breaking legislation covering the rights of domestic workers is on the brink of passage in New York State. If signed into law it will be the culmination of a decade of grassroots activism supported by the American labour federations AFL-CIO and may open the door to similar legislation in other states. Gary Humphreys, a California-based journalist, reports.
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Publication
“Become a man instead of a mere machine”: The ILO and trends in working hours
01 April 2010
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes imagined a world in which, a hundred years later, work would be to a large extent replaced by leisure. He speculated about a three-hour shift and a 15-hour working week by 2030.
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Publication
Decent work for domestic workers: Towards new international labour standards
01 April 2010
The work of caring and cleaning in the home for pay is one of the most important occupations for millions of workers, mostly women, around the world. According to a new ILO report prepared for the June 2010 session of the International Labour Conference, domestic work absorbs a significant proportion of the workforce, ranging between 5 and 9 per cent of total employment in developing countries, and making up to 2.5 per cent of total employment in industrialized countries. Manuela Tomei, director of the ILO’s Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, looks at the working conditions of this global and growing workforce and ways to improve them.
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Publication
Domestic work is not for children
01 April 2010
Last November, the Government of Cambodia convened a national consultation on decent work for domestic workers. At the end of the meeting, government, workers’ and employers’ organizations in the country agreed on the need for a new international labour standard extending social protection to those who work in the homes of others. The following article by Bill Salter, Director of the ILO Subregional Office for East Asia, was adapted from an earlier version published in a local newspaper.
March 2010
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Interview
An interview with Ibrahim Awad on rights-based policies for migrant workers
31 March 2010
Ibrahim Awad, Chief of the ILO’s International Migration Department, discusses a new ILO publication that promotes policies that follow a “rights-based approach” to meet the needs of the world’s 105 million migrant workers.
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Video
Update on the Global Jobs Pact and New Zealand: An Interview with Phil O'Reilly
30 March 2010
ILO TV interviews Phil O'Reilly, Chief Executive of Business NZ.