The International Labour Conference (ILC) is expected to vote on a Recommendation for social protection floors. Michael Cichon, Director of the ILO’s Social Security Department, explains why we need this international labour standard.
6 June 2012, UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, Thematic Segment on Combination Prevention, Geneva - As UNAIDS meets to discuss the importance of combination prevention, the ILO’s HIV/AIDS programme in Mozambique shows how the workplace can engage people at all levels making valuable (...)
The ILO has released a pre-edited version of a Manual to help constituents around the world, especially in statistical offices and ministries of labour, to define, quantify and characterize the contribution of the informal sector and informal employment at national (...)
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on data regarding forced labor that have been issued by the International Labor Organization.
Almost 5.000 delegates from the ILO’s 185 Member States are attending the 101st session of the International Labour Conference, which is held in Geneva from 30 May to 15 June 2012. Each ILO Member State is represented by a delegation consisting of two government delegates, an employer delegate, (...)
ILO Director-General outlines what a new era for the world economy should look like, with changing priorities that break with the dogmas of the past and respond to people’s needs.
This year’s annual World Day against Child Labour will put the spotlight on the progress that ILO Member States have made in the application of the ILO’s Conventions on Child Labour.
“Minorities which ruled with iron and fire will never return,” Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki told delegates at the ILO’s International Labour Conference in Geneva.