News room

January 2006

  1. Russian stakeholders call for National Anti-Trafficking Plan of Action

    27 January 2006

    Trafficking in humans is one of the most cruel and malicious types of organized crime, and it is rapidly developing into a very large-scale criminal activity. Effective action against trafficking requires a focus on its forced labour outcomes, on demand aspects in the destination countries as well as on supply in the origin countries, says the memorandum adopted at the conference organized by the ILO on 26-27 January in Vatutinki, Moscow region.

  2. Business and responsibility: forum in Kazakhstan.

    24 January 2006

    On January, 24 President Nursultan Nazarbayev paid a working visit to the city of Jezkazgan to attend a business forum on social responsibility of business.

  3. Tripartite Declaration on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work signed in Russia

    13 January 2006

    The Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development, the Coordinating Council of Employers' Associations and the Russian Federation of Independent Trade Unions - parties to the Tripartite Commission on the Regulation of Social and Labour Relations - called to join efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS and to collaborate in preventing HIV/AIDS at the workplace.

  4. Taxation named as a serious impediment to business development in Tajikistan.

    05 January 2006

    DUSHANBE , 5 January, Avesta news agency - Tajik employers called taxation a most serious impediment to business development.

December 2005

  1. Project results presented in Moscow

    23 December 2005

    Today the ILO Office presented a manual ”Your Health” for vocational college students. The manual was developed and published with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science under the ILO/DFID/UNFIP project on Comprehensive Partnership Strategies for HIV/STI Prevention among Young People in the Russian Federation.

  2. International labour standards and the development of social dialogue in Russia

    19 December 2005

    This is the topic of the seminar, organized by the ILO upon the request of the State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation. The seminar started today at Marriott-Aurora Hotel in Moscow.

October 2005

  1. Global textile and clothing industry urges new role for ILO in post-MFA job impact

    27 October 2005

    The global textile and clothing trade has called on the International Labour Organization (ILO) to play a leading role in addressing a “revolution” facing the industry in the wake of the phase-out of the Multi-fibre Arrangement (MFA) that affects millions of jobs worldwide.

  2. Tver hosts forum on role of business in social sphere

    12 October 2005

    On October 11-12 Tver hosted a seminar entitled Development of Social Partnership in Russian Regions. The role of business in social reforms was the focal theme on the agenda. The International Labour Organization and the Coordinating Council of Employers’ Unions of Russia were the seminar’s organizers.

  3. International Year of Microcredit 2005

    01 October 2005

    In 1998, the UN General Assembly declared 2005 the International Year of Microcredit in recognition of microcredit’s contribution to poverty reduction, towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

September 2005

  1. Yevgeny Semenenko was appointed Labour and Social Protection Minister of Kyrgyzstan

    30 September 2005

    On September 30, 2005 Yevgeny Semenenko was appointed by President’s Decree Labour and Social Protection Minister of Kyrgyzstan.