Past events

A3 –52099: Trade Union Training on Climate Change Policies, Green Jobs & Decent Work

This training workshop, “A3-52099: Trade Union Training on Climate Change Policies, Green Jobs & Decent Work”, is designed to enhance the understanding of trade unions on climate change policies and its linkages with ILO standards and policies for...

Sub-regional Seminar on Social Dialogue in Postal Services in Francophone Central and Western Africa

Poverty Reduction & Informal Economy

A3-52098: Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Informal Economy Inter-Regional Workshop for Trade Unions from Asia and Africa

The Workshop A3-52098 on “Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Informal Economy” will seek to: a) Strengthen unions’ capacities for promoting a Decent Work development paradigm that reduces poverty and deals with the informal economy; b) Evaluate...

XXIXth International Symposium of the ISSA Construction Section on Occupational Safety and Health in the Construction Industry

High Level Tripartite Meeting on Collective Bargaining: Negotiating for Social Justice

Financial crises 1929-2008

Public lecture by Professor Youssef Cassis (University of Geneva/LSE) on the financial crises of 1929 and 2008, focussing on their causes and socio-economical consequences to identify similarities and differences.

Mobilisation

Awarding the winner of the 38th UPU's letter writing competition on Decent work

A special joint event organized by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) is to be held to award the prize-winner of the UPU’s International Letter Writing Competition for Young People 2009.

Radio Campaigns on Standards-Setting for Domestic Workers: Domestic Workers are Workers

The Campaign aims to provide better protection and recognition to domestic workers, with a focus on Indonesian domestic workers as well as to raise awareness about the plight of domestic workers in Indonesia.

Official Launch of the Post-Conflict Employment and Reintegration Policy

Rebuilding Broken Places: UN Scales Up Sustainable Employment in Post-Conflict Settings

International ILO Conference, 3-6 November 2009, Düsseldorf, Germany

ILO Conference "Implementing Occupational Safety and Health Standards Globally", Düsseldorf, Germany, 3-6 November 2009

The global financial crisis will have a profound effect on the world of work. The International ILO Safety Conference in Düsseldorf will bring together 300 participants from 60 countries around the world during the A+A Trade Fair to discuss the...

Europe and Central Asia

High-level Tripartite Seminar, 2009

High-level Tripartite Seminar on Wage Policy in Caucasus and Central Asia: Assessment and Policy Answer s to the Economic Crisis

Pan-African Forum on Women’s Entrepreneurship Development in Response to the Financial and Economic Crisis

Part of the implementation framework of the Global Jobs Pact and preparation for the First African Decent Work Symposium on Recovering from the Crisis.

ILO/Japan/HRDF Seminar on Managing and Understanding Labour Migration through Social Dialogue at the Provincial Level

Jointly organized by ILO/Japan Project on Managing Cross-border Movement of Labour in Southeast Asia and Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF). The goal of this provincial social dialogue is the promotion and support of migrant worker...

47th annual meeting of CIS centres

This anniversary meeting celebrated the 50th anniversary of ILO-CIS.

Workshop to promote ratification of the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181)

Regional Conference on the Social Economy – Africa’s Response to the Global Crisis

This conference brought together social economy promoters and stakeholders from Africa, government representatives from 15 African countries, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and ILO specialists to adopt an action programme.

The Green Jobs Training Site

What transitions are we witnessing and what changes do we need to anticipate? How can decent work and green work match? How will the new social agenda look like, in the aftermath of the international climate change discussions? How can green jobs...

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Convention No. 98: The Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining in the 21st Century

The Bureau for Workers’ Activities of the International Labour Office is organizing an International Workers’ Symposium on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining, which will take place from 12 to 15 October 2009 in Geneva.

ILO/Japan/HRDF Seminar on Managing and Understanding Labour Migration through Social Dialogue at the Provincial Level

Jointly organized by ILO/Japan Project on Managing Cross-border Movement of Labour in Southeast Asia and Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF). The goal of this provincial social dialogue is the promotion and support of migrant worker...

International Journal of Labour Research: Trade Union Strategies Towards Global Productions Systems

The ILO's Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV) is pleased to announce the launch of its latest publication, the International Journal of Labour Research (IJLR).