Nine candidatures were submitted for election to the post of Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), as nominations to the ILO top job officially closed on 9 March 2012.
In collaboration with UNAIDS and ten other UN agencies, the ILO has signed onto a Joint Statement on compulsory detention centres. Recalling that Recommendation 200 calls for a rights-based response to HIV, the Joint Statement notes that detention centres raise a range of human rights issues, (...)
The Maternity Protection Resource Package provides inspiration and tools to help organizations and individuals everywhere to strengthen and extend maternity protection to all women in all types of economic activity. The Package can be used as a reference for self-learning, training, policy (...)
The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, whose work constitutes the cornerstone of the ILO's supervisory system on international labour standards, has just published its annual report.
This news brief is for ILO constituents in the Pacific to keep them updated on ILO issues and activities related to Decent Work Country Programmes in their respective countries.
The International Social Security Association and the ILO have forged a new link aimed at promoting extension of social security to the 80 percent of the world's people who lack coverage.
L'Association internationale de la sécurité sociale (AISS) et l'OIT forgent un nouveau lien visant à promouvoir l'extension de la sécurité sociale aux 80 pour cent de la population mondiale qui n'en disposent pas.
On 20 March 2012, during the first panel session on HIV and Human Rights the Human Rights Council highlighted the need to protect human rights at work, citing the 2011 Political Declaration and Recommendation No. 200. ILO and other speakers urged the Council to keep this important issue on its (...)