International initiatives

ILO

• Meetings of the International Monetary and Finance Committee and the Development Committee, Singapore, 17-18 September 2006 - Statement by Mr. Juan Somavia, Director General of the International Labour Office
• Sixteenth American Regional Meeting, Brazilia, Brazil, 2-5 May 2006
• Guidelines for consultations with the Bureau for Employers' and Workers' Activities - International Labour Organization, Governing Body, 295th Session, Geneva 2006
• ILO multilateral framework on labour migration - Non-binding principles on guidelines for a rights-based approach to labour migration - November 2005
• International Labour Conference, 90th Session, 2002 - Decent work and the informal economy. Report VI, Sixth Item on the Agenda
• Resolution concerning decent work and the informal economy
• International Labour Conference, 89th Session, 2001 - Reducing the decent work deficit
• International Labour Conference, 87th Session, 1999 - Report of the Director-General: Decent work
• ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work - Follow up to the Declaration - June 1998

• Responding to globalization - A decent work agenda for the Caribbean in the context of regional integration - NATIONAL CONSULTATIONS (Presentation)
• Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business work for the poor - Report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

• Caribbean Youth Unemployment Rates
• GET Aggregates - World - LAC - Caribbean_1
• Caribbean Unemployment Rates

UN

• United Nations Economic and Social Council - Wednesday 5 July 2006, Geneva Switzerland - Creating decent work opportunities with productivity growth
• United Nations Economic and Social Council - July 2006 - Draft ministerial declaration of the high-level segment submitted by the President of the Council on the basis of informal consultations
• World Summit for Social Development - Outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of September 2005 submitted by the President of the General Assembly
• 59th Session of the UN General Assembly, 2004 - RESOLUTION - A fair globalization, creating opportunities for all - Report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization

OTHER

• Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - May 2006 - Promoting decent work for all - The EU contribution to the implementation of the decent work agenda in the world | ANNEX |
• Declaration of Vienna - 4th European Union-Latin America/Caribbean Summit, Vienna, Austria, May 2006
• Core Labour Standards and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - April 2006
• Fourth Summit of the Americas Plan of Action - Creating jobs to fight poverty and strengthen democratic governance. Mar del Plata, Argentina, 5 November 2005
• Fourth Summit of the Americas Plan of Action - Declaration of Mar del Plata -- Creating jobs to fight poverty and strengthen democratic governance. Mar del Plata, Argentina, 5 November 2005
• XIV Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour - Plan of Action of Mexico (Adopted at the closing session, 27 September 2005). Mexico City, Mexico, 26-27 September 2005
• XIV Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour - Declaration of Mexico -- People and their work at the heart of globalization. Mexico City, Mexico, 26-27 September 2005
• World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization - 2004. A fair globalization: creating opportunities for all