Events and courses

Brown Bag Lunch

Scoping Study: International Investment Agreements

The aim of the report is to gain a better initial understanding of the references to labour in investment agreements. The main purpose is to scope investment agreements on references for keywords that can be related to labour protection since they might have an impact on the application of investment agreements and potentially address concerns with regard to freezing or lowering labour protection. In this report, the focus is on keywords that can be linked to labour protection, but which as such do not yet constitute a labour provision as defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO). These keywords can be considered as proxies to gain insight into the importance of labour concerns in investment agreements. The search of keywords is executed on two datasources from UNCTAD. One which contains all negotiated investment agreements and one which contains so-called Model Bilateral Investment Agreements.

ILO Research Department Webinar

COVID-19 and Multinational Enterprises: FDI, Trade and Decent Work in Asia Pacific

This Research Webinar will focus on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on multinational enterprises, focusing on FDI, trade and decent work in the Asia and the Pacific region. The Webinar will present a recent ILO Brief that was prepared jointly by the ILO's Research Department, the Multinational Enterprises and Enterprise Engagement Unit of ILO's Enterprises Department, and the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.

ILO Research Department Seminar

Socially Responsible Investment and Decent Work

ILO’s Global Commission on the Future of Work stressed the key role of long-term financing and its impact in the creation of decent and sustainable work. The commission pointed the need to develop market-based incentives to promote the alignment of business activities with the human-centred agenda adopted by the ILO. The seminar will aim at questioning the potential role of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) in this purpose. The objective of SRI is for investors to select securities not only on the basis of purely financial criteria, but also according to social, environmental and ethical requirements (ESG) such as low carbon emissions, decent working conditions and transparent corporate governance. Professor Louche will address this issue by highlighting the role of ESG rating agencies and their methodologies, identifying the difficulties in measuring ESG criteria and questioning the potential complementarities between the three dimensions of SRI.

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