Past events

U.N.Women: What does it mean for the ILO?

A GENDER & PARDEV joint initiative. Lunch time talk - open Q&A format with key speakers Ms Alette van Leur, Director PARDEV and Ms Jane Hodges, Director GENDER

48th annual meeting of CIS centres

Forum on Green Jobs for a Better Life

The Forum is to introduce the concepts and development trend of the Green Jobs Initiatives, to exchange good practices and to discuss the roles of the Government, employers' and workers’ organizations in promoting the green jobs for the green...

Forum on Green Jobs, Better Life

Jointly organized by the ILO, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), China, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) and China Enterprises Confederation (CEC)

Signing ceremony of Afghanistan's Decent Work Country Programme

Afghanistan's first Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) was signed by representatives of the Afghan Government, employers' and workers' organizations and the ILO at the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled.

Knowledge Sharing Workshop on “Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment (ETE)”

To benefit from the free trade agreements trade and employment policies should be in coherence, this way the goal for achieving decent work for all can be ensured.

ILO and ACFTU join hands to strengthen workers’ education, promote gender equality and decent work

ILO and the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) joined hands in promoting gender equality and decent work through strengthening workers’ education and social dialogue at a workshop in Shanghai.

Joint ILO/WHO Tripartite Working Party of Experts on Occupational Health and HIV/AIDS for Health Services Workers

Promoting Sustainable Enterprises – Training course and project launch by the President of Switzerland

From July 6-9, the ILO Office in Jakarta and the Global ILO SCORE Programme are conducting a training workshop for policy-makers and social partners “Promoting Sustainable Enterprises through Good Workplace Practices and Human Resource Management”.

ILO/ACTRAV/Solidarity Centre Workshop on Promoting a Right-Based Approach to Labour Migration in Origin and Destination Countries

As part of our programme on promoting a rights-based approach to labour migration and encourage trade union cooperation on this subject, I am pleased to inform you that our colleagues from the trade union movement in Kuwait, KTUF – Kuwait Trade...

Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work in Asia

Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work in Asia, 28-30 June, 2010

Joint ILO-GTFA conference

Joint ILO-GTFA conference - Globalization and Employment: Global Shocks, Structural Change and Policy Response

Leaders from International Organizations, NGOs and academia met at this conference organized by the ILO and the GTFA project to discuss the employment implications of instability in global markets.

"The Social Protection Floor Initiative" - Side Event of the 99th International Labour Conference

Europe and Central Asia

Informal Ministerial Meeting, 2010- The meeting was cancelled -

Informal Meeting of Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs during the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference

99th International Labour Conference

"Real economy" leaders discuss policy responses to global economic and jobs crisis

Leaders from the real economy, meeting at the International Labour Organization's annual conference, held a high-level debate on ways out of the global economic and jobs crisis and called for an urgent, balanced policy approach that would combine...

Tripartite Experiences in Time of Global Crisis: Panel discussion with Barbados, Belgium and Singapore

Interactive panel discussion with High-Level Tripartite Representatives from Barbados, Belgium and Singapore

4 March 2010

Gender and employment inter-relationships discussed at ILC Committee on Employment

The strategies used to ensure gender issues are crosscutting across the employment objectives of ILO work were highlighted during a meeting of the Committee on the Recurrent Item on Employment, held during the 99th session of the International...

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John Ruggie’s “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Business and Human Rights Framework

Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, presented his "protect, respect and remedy" framework, laying the foundations of a system for...

99th International Labour Conference, 2010

The International Labour Conference (ILC), the annual gathering of the ILO's global membership. Items on the agenda of the 99th session include the global financial and jobs crisis, the Global Jobs Pact, a new labour standard on HIV/AIDS, the...