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106th International Labour Conference

ILO standards can help regulate migration

In his last interview as President of the Workers’ Group, Luc Cortebeeck looks back at the results of the 106th Session of the International Labour Conference. According to the head of the workers, ILO standards can help protect migrant workers. ...

106th Session of the International Labour Conference

Member countries sign ratifications during ILC

During the 2017 International Labour Conference, the Governments of several member countries across the Region have expressed their high commitment to Decent Work and agreed International Labour Standards.

Press release

ILO: Restrictions on women’s labour migration can increase risk of exploitation, especially for migrant domestic workers

Gender-based migration bans and restrictions are one way in which states attempt to address the risk of exploitation and abuse faced by women migrant workers, especially in the domestic work sector.

106th International Labour Conference

ILO ready to face world of work challenges resulting from crisis, labour migration and green transition

Conference shows that the ILO is ready and able to update its standards, making them robust and relevant.

Specialists meet to develop Labour Migration Policy Framework for East Africa

Partner States to smoothen movement of labour and harmonize labour policies, programmes and legislation as required by the EAC’s Common Market Protocol (CMP)

ILO-JALA PRT to launch the compilation of Indonesian domestic workers’ legal cases

For more than seven years, Marni Siti* (name has been changed), 22 years old, was kept as prisoner in the home of her employer who regularly violently abused and deprived her of food, sleep and payment for long hours of grueling work. She finally...

Forced labour

Denmark joins renewed fight to end forced labour

Forced labour

Sweden joins the global movement against forced labour

Forced labour

Iceland ratifies the 2014 Protocol to the 1930 ILO Forced Labour Convention, as part of a renewed global effort to eradicate all forms of...

Collective bargaining

Canada ratifies the Collective Bargaining Convention

Canada has now ratified all eight ILO Fundamental Conventions

Labour Standards

Belgium has ratified the Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors’ Benefits Convention, 1967 (No. 128), the Chemicals Convention, 1990 (No. 170),...

International Labour Conference - ASPAG meeting

Asia Pacific Group labour ministers: Decent Work at heart of sustainable development

Ministers of labour of countries from the Middle East to Australia met on sidelines of ILC to exchange ideas on generating Decent Work for sustainable development in the wider Asia Pacific region.

Equality of opportunity and treatment

Thailand ratifies the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111)

Labour standards

India ratifies both fundamental ILO Conventions on Child Labour

Historic move confirms India’s “commitment to a child labour free society”. Ratification means that almost all children in the world are covered by Convention No. 182, while coverage of Convention No. 138 jumps from 60 per cent of the world’s...

Labour Standards

Jamaica renews commitment toward International Labour Standards

Jamaica ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006) and the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Indonesia ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

Indonesia, an important actor of international maritime trade, is the 83rd Member State of the ILO that ratifies this convention.

Our impact, their voices

Telling serious things with humour: Mobile theater in Tajikistan campaigns against the informal economy

Two years ago the International Labour Conference adopted the Recommendation concerning the transition from the informal to the formal economy (No.204). Since then a global campaign has started in different parts of the world to formalize the...

Seafarers’ identity documents

Seafarers’ identity documents: New requirements enter into force triggering renewed momentum for the ratification of Convention No. 185

Occupational Safety and Health

Netherlands ratifies three important Conventions concerning Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)

Policy Outcome 2: Ratification and application of international labour standards