Publications on Equality and discrimination

July 2012

  1. Publication

    Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

    31 July 2012

    This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering vulnerability studies, stigma and discrimination studies, impact and cost-benefit studies.

  2. Studies on Growth with Equity

    EuroZone job crisis: trends and policy responses

    11 July 2012

    The study provides the latest trends on the employment situation in EU countries and examines the labour market reforms adopted by various governments.

  3. Publication

    Evidence Brief on Stigma and Discrimination at Work: Findings from the PLHIV Stigma Index

    01 July 2012

    This evidence brief, prepared by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), with support from the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the world of work (ILO/AIDS), provides a snapshot of the extent and impact of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in the workplace. The brief is based on findings from the PLHIV Stigma Index in nine countries across the globe.

June 2012

  1. Indigenous peoples development

    Comparative analysis on the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention No. 169, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (IPRA) of the Philippines

    29 June 2012

    All three instruments affirm the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the indigenous cultural communities and indigenous peoples on the basis of equality and non-discrimination.

  2. Domestic workers

    Decent work for domestic workers in Asia and the Pacific: Manual for trainers

    27 June 2012

    Invisible and undervalued no more! Domestic work is now recognized as a true occupation and domestic workers have the right to decent work, respect and dignity just like all other workers. These principles are now enshrined in international labour standards aimed at improving the working and living conditions of the millions of workers - many of them women and girls, and often migrants - caring for the families and households of others.

May 2012

  1. International Labour Review, Vol. 151 (2012), No. 1–2

    Mapping anti-discrimination law onto inequality at work: Expanding the meaning of equality in international labour law

    08 May 2012

    This article explores the evolving relationship between the concept of discrimination in international labour law and the socio-economic phenomenon of inequality at work. While non-discrimination was initially understood as a fairly limited legal principle mandating equal treatment for similarly situated individuals, it subsequently expanded to address indirect discrimination resulting from apparently neutral rules, standards and practices at work. It has expanded further to take on group-based patterns of inequality at work related to the structural constraints of the market, the family and community life, ultimately resulting in convergence between anti-discrimination law and legal initiatives to reduce class-based socioeconomic inequality and poverty.

March 2012

  1. Publication

    Gender Equality and Decent Work - Selected ILO Conventions and Recommendations that promote Gender Equality as of 2012

    20 March 2012

  2. Publication

    Corporate brochure on ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

    15 March 2012

    Prevent HIV, Protect Human Rights at Work

  3. Meeting document

    Report III(1B): Giving globalization a human face (General Survey on the fundamental Conventions)

    02 March 2012

    General Survey on the fundamental Conventions concerning rights at work in light of the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, 2008.

February 2012

  1. Publication

    Indigenous women workers - With case studies from Bangladesh, Nepal and the Americas

    15 February 2012

    This paper draws on the expertise and experience of two specialized ILO teams - the Programme to Promote ILO Convention No. 169 (PRO169) based in the International Labour Standards Department and the ILO’s Bureau for Gender Equality - with the aim of examining indigenous women’s position in the workforce.