News on International Labour Standards

Opening Remarks to the Regional Tripartite Workshop on National Occupational Safety and Health Programme

by Mr Shinichi Hasegawa, Regional Director of ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Rights and Development by Zafar Shaheed, presented at the Pakistan Civil Services Academy, Lahore, Pakistan, May 2005

ILO Director’s visit applauded

Vanuatu officials have spoken highly about the visit of Sub-Regional ILO Office Director for Asia and Pacific based in Manila, Philippines, Mr Werner Konrad Blenk recently. The main purpose of Mr Blenk’s visit was to discuss with the Vanuatu...

Leaflet on Indigenous and Tribal peoples - No.1 The ILO standards and supervisory system.

Using the ILO Code of Practice and training manual - Guidelines for labour judges and magistrates

These guidelines aim to contribute to a fuller understanding of ILO standards and principles relevant to HIV/AIDS. They focus on the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, and provide examples of the ways in which the key principles...

C81 Labour Inspection Convention and C129 Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention

Leaflet on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples - No.5 Discrimination in employment and occupation.

Leaflet on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples - No.4 Indigenous children and child labour.

Leaflet on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples - No.3 Forced labour, Human trafficking and Indigenous and Tribal Peoples.

Leaflet on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples - No.2 ILO Convention No.169, and ILO programmes specifically addressing indigenous and tribal...

Leaflets on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples - Fundamental principles and rights. Introduction.

Information Note on ASEAN Member States and International Labour Standards

This note was prepared in response to an ILO request to provide an assessment of ASEAN countries' ratification of core conventions. It was the basis for discussion at the ASEAN Senior Labour Officials Meeting in May 2004 and contributes to further...

Occupational safety and health profile for Bangladesh

The profile is an inventory of all the tools and resources available in the country to implement and manage occupational safety and health (OSH) and is designed to provide the data necessary for setting national priorities for action aimed at the...

Occupational safety and health profile in Kenya

The profile is an inventory of all the tools and resources available in the country to implement and manage occupational safety and health (OSH) and is designed to provide the data necessary for setting national priorities for action aimed at the...

New ratification opens the way for ILO Convention on seafarers' ID card

The ILO Convention No. 185, designed to create a new biometric identity verification system for the world’s 1.2 million maritime workers has received sufficient ratifications to go into force.

Compressed workweeks

Paid annual leave

ILO Conclusions on Myanmar Regarding Forced Labour

The ILO Committee on the Application of Standards presents it's conclusions concerning the question of the observance by the Government of Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention 1930 (Convention 29).

ILO conference moves to improve safety, working conditions in fishing sector

The ILO annual Conference takes a significant step toward improving the work and safety conditions of some 29 million people from Asia Pacific who work in one of the world’s most dangerous industries, the fishing sector.

Working time family measures