News on International Labour Standards

Trade unionists gather for conference in Russia’s Siberian city

On August 26-29 the international conference focusing on trade unions’ role in promoting decent work standards took place in Chita, Russia’s Siberian city.

ILO supports Nigeria Labour Congress Rain School 2014

The Rain School is a flagship of NLC’s educational activities and has trained thousands of labour leaders.

Maritime Labour Convention

Exponential movement to achieve widespread ratification and effective implementation: The 1st anniversary of Maritime Labour Convention,...

Today one year after entry force, 64 countries that are responsible for working and living conditions of seafarers on more than 80 per cent of the world’s fleet have ratified the Convention.

Maritime Labour Convention

Kenya ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Kenya is the 64th ILO member State and the tenth African State – after Liberia, Gabon, Benin, Togo, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Congo – to have ratified the MLC, 2006.

ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries launches report “Decent Work and Social Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States -...

To mark International Youth Day, The International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for Pacific Island Countries have launched a report, entitled “Decent Work and Social Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States”.

Improving data collection of labour statistics (including labour migration statistics)in Pacific Island Countries

The ILO in collaboration with partners, UNESCAP and SPC has completed a sub-regional technical workshop on labour and migration statistics for Pacific Island Countries. This technical workshop took place from 28 July to 1 August 2014 in Nadi, Fiji...

Maritime Labour Convention

Ireland ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Ireland is the 63rd ILO member State and the 21st Member State of the European Union (EU) to have ratified this Convention

Belize ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Belize is the 62nd ILO member State and the eighth Member State of the Ocean Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Caribbean Region to have ratified this Convention.

Maritime Labour Convention

Belize ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Belize is the 62nd ILO member State and the eighth Member State of the Ocean Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Caribbean Region to have ratified this Convention

ILO and UNESCO reconfirm commitment to joint work in new agreement

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder and Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed a new agreement consolidating existing joint work by the two agencies in a wide range of...

Promotion of decent work standards: conference in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

On July 8-10, participants in a research and practical conference discussed promotion of decent work and decent wage standards in Russia’s Far East. The conference entitled “Role of trade unions in promoting decent work standards” was organized in...

Progress booked after one year of ILO-EU-Bangladesh Compact on safety in garment factories

A year ago, the ILO, the EU, Bangladesh and the United States signed a Compact to improve labour rights in the garment industry of Bangladesh.

Russia ratifies ILO’s Public Service Convention

1 July 2014. On July 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law to ratify the ILO’s Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention, 1978 (No. 151).

Italy

Promoting labour rights: A key role for Parliaments

Ms Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director, International Labour Standards Department of the ILO in Geneva, travelled to Rome to open the hearing at the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament organized by the Labour Commission on Wednesday, June 25...

Jordan reviews the state of collective bargaining at national and sector-specific levels

Government officials as well as workers’ and employers’ organizations discuss progress and challenges facing freedom of association and collective bargaining in Jordan.

Workers’ rights

Trade union leaders in the Asia Pacific region to consider strategies to halt weakening of union rights

Rights at work

Domestic work, Work like any other

The well-publicised case of the abused Indonesian maid Erwiana Sulistyaningsih placed a spotlight on the plight of a vulnerable and often invisible population, migrant domestic workers. Yoshiteru Uramoto, ILO's Regional Director for Asia and the...

ILO moves the discussion on the informal economy one step forward

Delegates to this year’s International Labour Conference have concluded that the informal economy represents a major challenge to the world of work and have agreed to hold a second discussion next year with the aim of adopting a Recommendation.

Social protection essential to help eradicate child labour

Well designed social protection policies, sensitive to children’s needs, can make a real difference in the fight to eradicate child labour, said the International Labour Organization on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour.

Ryder: We’ve endorsed an “agenda that really matters”

The 103rd International Labour Conference (ILC) closed following more than two weeks of deliberations on key world of work issues, including forced labour, migration, informality, investment in quality employment.