All ILO Newsroom content
April 2009
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Statement
Message by the Director-General of the ILO on the occasion of World Day for Safety and Health at Work
28 April 2009
This year we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the International Labour Organization. It is fitting to recall our founding mission as we observe this World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
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Video
Video message of Dr Sameera Al-Tuwaijri, Director of SafeWork on the World Day 2009
28 April 2009
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Statement
Statement of the participants of the Asia Regional Good Practice Seminar
27 April 2009
The statement is an outcome of the Asia Regional Good Practice Seminar held in Kathmandu, Nepal where more than 90 representatives of indigenous peoples, government and national human rights institutions from 13 Asian countries, along with representatives of UN agencies and bilateral and multilateral development agencies discussed and exchanged experiences and lessons learned in the Asian region concerning the implementation of indigenous peoples’ rights.
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Ageing workforce
International symposium to discuss responses to the demographic challenges in the workplace
27 April 2009
The Bureau of Employers Activities of International Labour Organization (ILO) is to hold a seminar on 28-29 April to discuss how businesses are responding to the challenges of an ageing workforce and the measures needed to keep social security systems afloat.
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ILO 90th anniversary
The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice
20 April 2009
Watch 90 years of ILO history presented in a moving scrapbook of photos, film, sound and music showing the Organization's role in promoting social justice and Decent Work within the historical, political and cultural contexts of each decade.
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Video
ILO Director-General's statement on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the ILO
17 April 2009
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Video
Maid in Lebanon
15 April 2009
Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find there is sometimes not what they expected. A film directed by Carol Mansour and funded by Caritas Sweden, the Netherlands Embassy in Beirut and the ILO depicts the gamble these women take when they decide to leave their families and go to work in Lebanon.
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Cooperatives
ILO Launches Third Call for Proposals to Promote Cooperatives in Africa
14 April 2009
The International Labour Organization announced the launch of a third call for proposals to promote cooperatives through the Cooperative Facility for Africa programme.
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Caribbean Conference on jobs crisis
ILO Tripartite Caribbean Conference outlines action plan for addressing social and labour consequences of global financial crisis
06 April 2009
High-level representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations of the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean have come up with an action plan to address the social and labour consequences of the global financial crisis in the region. The action plan, presented under nine guiding principles, was put forward at the conclusion of the two-day International Labour Organization Tripartite Caribbean Conference which ended on 2 April 2009 in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Statement
Trafficking for Labour Exploitation - Conceptual Issues, and Challenges for Law Enforcement, by Roger Plant, Kiev, April 2009
02 April 2009
Presentation to Fifth International Law Enforcement Conference, Kiev, 31 March- 2 April 2009