News on International Labour Standards

ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

Declaration adopted by the International Labour Conference at its Eighty-sixth Session, Geneva, 18 June 1998 (Annex revised 15 June 2010).

Opening message at the Seminar-Workshop on Freedom of Association, Civil Liberties, Labour Laws and the Issue of Impunity (Visayas)

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Iloilo City, Philippines

Opening address at the National Seminar for Trade Unions on Freedom of Association and Review of the Progress of the High Level Mission

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Tagaytay City, Philippines

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The Swiss Confederation ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of its adoption

Switzerland is the 12th Member State, the 6th European country, and the first landlocked State with maritime interests, to ratify the MLC, 2006. The Swiss ratification gives a major boost to the ratification campaign launched by the ILO...

Kazakhstan ratifies ILO Asbestos Convention

ILO launches new web-based information and assistance service for business: ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards

Building on the success of the ILO Helpdesk confidential assistance service established in March 2009 to help companies implement principles of international labour standards in business operations, the International Labour Office (ILO) has now...

Pacific regional tripartite workshop considered ILO Maritime Labour Convention

The workshop that was held in Nadi, Fiji from 27 to 29 October 2010 brought together seafarers, ship-owners and government labour and maritime officers from Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to promote the...

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ratify Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006)

Maritime and labour inspectors trained on ILO's Maritime Labour Convention, new international shipping regulation

Thirty-five officials, from across the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, met at a three-day workshop on 10-12 November 2010, to discuss the International Labour Organization's Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) and how to apply its...

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ratifies Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006)

Maritime Labour Convention 2006: Action Plan 2006-2011

Outlines an action plan to achieve rapid and widespread ratification and effective implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.

Opening message at the Roundtable Discussion for the Justices on Improved Use of International Labour Standards in the Judiciary

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines

Media Advisory: ILO regional training workshop for maritime and labour inspectors on Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

The ILO Office for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the Maritime Authority of Jamaica and the Caribbean Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, will host a regional training workshop for maritime and labour inspectors on the ILO...

Pacific Island Countries explore ratification of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention

The ILO Workshop on Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, is held on 27-29 October 2010.

Regional conference towards a domestic workers’ convention

Domestic workers’ organizations in conjunction with national trade union centres and trade unions from all over Asia will gather to discuss the issues relating to domestic workers’ labour rights and how best to fill the protection gaps inherent in...

Russia ratifies ILO Occupational Safety and Health Convention

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Singapore ratifies ILO Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144)

The ILO Director-General welcomed the ratification of "this important governance instrument by the Government of Singapore which underpins practices in the area of tripartism and social dialogue in respect of international labour standards and...

Maritime Labour Convention

Implementing the Maritime Labour Convention is "almost there"

When the ILO adopted the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), in February 2006, Director-General Juan Somavia said the Organization had made "labour history" for the world's more than 1.2 million seafarers. Four years on, the Convention is...

Turkmenistan’s parliament ratifies ILO’s Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

On September 27, Turkmenistan’s parliament ratified the ILO’s Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999, (No. 182).

ILO Convention

Nicaragua ratifies ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)

The Government of Nicaragua has delivered to the ILO the instrument of ratification of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), whose purpose is to protect the rights of these peoples and to guarantee respect for their integrity.