The ILO celebrated International Women’s Day with a panel discussion on: “Women and the Future of Work: Beijing+20 and Beyond”. Participants included ILO Director-General Guy Ryder; Ambassador Regina Maria Cordeiro Dunlop, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United (...)
An Advanced Course on Intellectual Property for Government Officials opened on 16 March 2015, aiming to enhance the capacity of governments in developing countries and in countries with economies in transition to develop national expertise in intellectual property (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 25 March 2015, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document officially (...)
ILO News talks to a young Ivorian woman who in a few years went from selling goods at local markets to being a successful entrepreneur whose dreams reach beyond the Ivory Coast.
Tens of thousands of workers are employed in Jordan's fast-growing garment sector. Eighty percent of these workers are migrants. In an effort to improve their living and working conditions, the International Labour Organization initiated the establishment of a workers' center in the (...)
Indonesia notified the WTO Secretariat on 13 March 2015 of a request for consultations with the United States regarding anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing measures applied by the United States on coated paper imported from (...)
As the risks posed by climate change become more prevalent, often the people affected the most have the least capacity to adapt to those risks without help. In Fiji, the ILO's Cash for Work programme brought together government, communities and volunteers to help villagers threatened by (...)
The WTO has created a new webpage dedicated to the issue of quantitative restrictions, measures imposed by governments limiting the quantity or value of goods that can be traded. Such measures may take different forms (quotas, prohibitions, voluntary export restraints, etc.) and must be (...)
سيصد و بيست و سومين اجلاس هيأت مديره سازمان بينالمللي كار (سبك) به مدت 15 روز از 12 تا 27 مارس 2015(21 اسفند تا 7 فروردين 94) در ژنو برگزار خواهد شد. به همين مناسبت سازمان بينالمللي كارفرمايان (سبكا) در جزوهاي 12 صفحهاي به زبان انگليسي مهمترين قسمتهاي دستوركار اين اجلاس براي اعضاي كارفرماي هيأت مديره را تهيه كرده و در (...)