Past events

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2012: "Indigenous media, empowering indigenous voices"

International Youth Day 2012: Interactive online discussions on Google+ and Twitter

Join us in celebrating International Youth Day 2012 “Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth" by watching and contributing to a Google+ Hangout and a Twitter live Q&A.

National Launch Event of the Cambodia Decent Work Country Profile

The Tripartite National Launch Event of the Cambodia Decent Work Country Profile took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 30th July 2012 and was co-organized by the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MOLVT) and the ILO.

Launch of the New Study on Trade in Services and Employment in Indonesia

Services are an important part of Indonesia’s global trade and thus have a significant impact on the domestic labour market and employment. This applies especially to employment generated through services exports, which grew at a moderate rate in...

Promoting Decent Work for Migrant Health Professionals

The EU funded Decent Work Across Borders: A pilot project for migrant health professionals and skilled workers was launched on 6 July 2012 in Manila. The project's advisory committee composed of representatives of the government, employers, trade...

Indonesia – Korea CSR Forum

The forum brings together more than 100 Korean companies and national business community leaders across Indonesia to further discuss and be more familiar with the guidance provided by global standards compliance and national regulations of Indonesia.

Global MAP Meeting on measuring and monitoring decent work

The MAP meeting of experts aimed at strengthening ILO constituents’ capacities to measure and monitor decent work, with a series of outputs to be developed by end 2013. A full report on lessons learnt and main challenges will be produced from the...

World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) Philippines Celebration 2012

The Philippines will celebrate the World Day Against Child Labour on 26 June this year by presenting to the public the preliminary results of the 2011 Survey on Children done by the National Statistics Office (NSO). This comes 10 years after the...

Postal Services

Seminar on Sustainable Development in Postal Services in Asia-Pacific countries

This 4-day seminar on environmental and economic issues, gender equality, social dialogue, HIV/AIDS , and mainstreaming employment and decent work in postal services in Asia and the Pacific showed how sustainable development can foster performance...

Commemorating the World Day Against Child Labour 2012 in Indonesia

The ILO through its Child Labour and Education Project will conduct a series of activities to commemorate the World Day at the national level in Indonesia with a variety of activities throughout June 2012.

Tribute to Lord Brett of Lydd, former President of Workers’ group and Vice-President of the ILO’s Governing Body

The former President of Workers’ group and Vice-President of the ILO’s Governing Body (from 1993 to 2002), Lord Bill Brett of Lydd passed away in March 2012. Following his death, a tribute was paid to him during the 313th Session of ILO Governing...

Enhancing NGO and Media Engagement in the Campaign for Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights

Over the last 6 years, civil society organizations (CSOs) have launched campaigns to sensitize the Lebanese public to the working and living conditions of women migrant domestic workers (WMDWs) in Lebanon. These campaigns have portrayed WMDWs as...

Purpose and objectives

Preparatory Regional Meeting of Labour Statisticians in support of the 19th ICLS (Western Asia and North Africa)

Organized by the ILO in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Launch of "10 Stories of People with Disability in Waged and Self Employment in Fiji" Book

The book highlights the stories of 10 locals who had stepped forward to share their experiences and struggles to secure employment despite their disabilities.

World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2012 "Human Rights and Social Justice: Let's End Child Labour

The global theme of the World Day against Child Labour 2012 very much complements the national drives towards child labour elimination. On 12 June 2012, ILO, UNICEF, World Education and the National Human Rights Commission (the four co-developers of...

World Day Against Child Labour June 12, 2012 Human rights and social justice... let's end child labour

This year the World Day Against Child Labour theme "Human rights and social justice... let's end child labour" provides a spotlight on the right of all children to be protected from child labour and from other violations of fundamental human rights.

Social justice and growth: The role of the minimum wage

International Journal of Labour Research Launch of Vol. 4 Issue 1 and Panel Discussion

Anniversary C189

First Anniversary of Convention 189 (Decent Work for Domestic Workers)

Meeting on the First anniversary of the Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers: this is a Joint meeting between IUF, IDWN (International Domestic Workers Network) and ITUC (International Trade Unions Confederation). The IDWN will be...

Confronting Finance: Mobilizing the 99% for economic and social progress

Book Lauch and Panel Discussion with Mr. Vasco Pedrina, Vice President of Building and Wood Workers International (BWI- Europe Region), Mr. Frank Hoffer, Senior Research Officer (ILO-ACTRAV) and Ms. Phumzile Ncube (Editor).

101st Session of the International Labour Conference

The 101st session of the International Labour Conference of the ILO, is to be held in Geneva (Switzerland) from 30 May to 15 June 2012. Each member State of the ILO is represented by a delegation consisting of two government delegates, an employer...