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Omar Faruk Osman: “The ratification of ILO core Conventions means a lot for the Workers of Somalia”

According to Omar Faruk Osman, the General Secretary of the Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU), by ratifying ILO Core Conventions on Freedom of Association (No.87)and Collective Bargaining (No.98), Somali workers were given the legal right...

Annual International Seafarers’ Welfare awards presented at ILO

Seafarers' rights

ILO Director remarks at the Special Tripartite Committee established under the Maritime Labour Convention

Maritime Labour Convention

The Republic of the Congo ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

The Republic of the Congo is the 57th member State of the ILO, and the ninth African State – after Liberia, Gabon, Benin, Togo, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa – that ratified the MLC, 2006.

Maritime Labour Convention

ILO, Maritime sector to address abandonment of seafarers and shipowners’ liability

320th session of the Governing Body

Luc Cortebeeck: “A major step forward was taken at this Governing Body session”

The 320th session of the ILO Governing Body drew to a close on 27 March 2014 in Geneva. In this interview, Workers’ Group Chair Luc Cortebeeck looks at several of the issues discussed during this session. Major topics included the application of...

ILO, Maritime sector to address abandonment of seafarers and shipowners’ liability

Decent work

ILO Head and Danish Prime Minister discuss EU employment and workers’ rights

Danish Prime Minister announces additional funds for the ILO’s work on improving workers’ rights in developing countries during a meeting with the ILO Director-General.

Jordan annual garment buyers forum calls for improved working conditions

Better Work Jordan’s International Buyers’ Forum sees record turnout amid calls for better working conditions in Jordan’s garment sector.

Samoa Workers Congress launched

The newly formed Samoa Workers Congress is intended to be the national organisation that brings together all the worker organisations of the country, It will act as the national body for workers on the National Tripartite Forum between government,...

Tuvalu – a small island State tackles labour law reform

Tuvalu is one of the ILO’s smallest Member States with a population of little more the 10,000 people spread across eight islands. Tuvalu, like a number of other countries in the Pacific region has labour legislation that has been in place for many...

Migrants Workers

Cinzia Del Rio: “A migration policy is urgent in the European Union”

The recent deaths of hundreds of migrants seeking to reach Europe highlight the need to have a comprehensive policy on migration. According to Cinzia Del Rio who chairs the international department of Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL), Italian unions...

New authorities delegated to RS by Slovakia

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) and the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development of Slovakia have signed a new agreement on the delegation of authority for the statutory survey of ships flying the flag of Slovakia, RS...

Lecture

The Relevance of the ILO in the twenty-first century

The Sir Patrick Lowry Lecture delivered by Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization, at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

South-South Cooperation

ILO-ACTRAV sign agreement with All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)

ILO Governing Body

Committee on Freedom of Association: Protecting rights, saving lives

In the last decade alone, more than 2,000 trade unionists worldwide have been released from prison following an examination by the CFA. Watch a backstage interview with Committee members Paul van der Heijden (Chairman), employers’ representative...

Labour Standards

Argentina ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention

Argentina is the thirteenth ILO member State and the seventh Latin American member State to ratify this instrument that seeks to improve the working and living conditions of tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

Dialogue Social

Egypt: Bipartite agreement signed between unions and employers in Port Said

Labour Standards

Somalia ratifies three fundamental ILO Conventions

Somalia ratifies the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)

Decent work in fragile States

ILO, Somalia sign agreement to promote decent work