News and articles

2012

  1. Press release

    Viet Nam’s new labour laws to improve labour market and industrial relations

    24 September 2012,

    A conference entitled “Introduction of the Labour Code and Trade Union Law: Opportunities and Challenges” was organised in Ha Noi today by the National Assembly’s Social Committee, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam to give social partners and the public an insight into the important changes brought about by the amended laws.

  2. Press release

    $4.5m employment assistance projects announced at first National Decent Work Committee

    24 September 2012,

    The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam today announced its new assistance projects worth US$4.56 million at the first meeting of the new Vietnam Decent Work Country Programme Steering Committee in Ha Noi.

  3. Freedom of association

    ILO mission to Fiji aborted

    19 September 2012,

    An ILO mission on freedom of association obliged to depart from Fiji without having completed its mandate.

  4. Press release

    ILO mission to Fiji aborted

    19 September 2012,

    An ILO direct contacts mission on freedom of association has been obliged to depart from Fiji without having completed its mandate.

  5. Safety at work

    ILO announces action plan to boost workplace safety in Pakistani factories

    17 September 2012,

    ILO sets out a series of short and medium-term measures in response to the deaths of more than 260 workers in a garment factory in Karachi.

  6. Press release

    Launch of the Indonesia Decent Work Country Programme 2012 - 2015

    17 September 2012, Jakarta, Indonesia

    The Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) for Indonesia 2012 – 2015 will be launched on Wednesday, 19 September 2012, at the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, Jakarta. The DWCP 2012-15 serves as the mid-term ILO programming framework for the work of ILO in Indonesia with full engagements of Government, workers’ and employers’ organization as the tripartite constituents of the ILO.

  7. Press release

    Pacific ratifications help to bring ‘Seafarers Bill of Rights’ into effect

    12 September 2012, Suva, Fiji

    The ILO has received the 30th ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), fulfilling the final condition for the first global standard spanning continents and oceans, to go into effect in a year’s time

  8. Convention N° 189

    Landmark treaty for domestic workers to come into force

    05 September 2012,

    The ILO’s Convention on Domestic Workers has now been ratified by two countries, meaning it will come into effect in a year’s time. The Convention extends basic labour rights to tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide.

  9. News

    Sexual harassment at workplace Bill passed in India

    04 September 2012,

  10. Press release

    ILO in Asia-Pacific joins forces with IGES on research, training, advocacy and policy support for green jobs

    04 September 2012, Bangkok, Thailand

    The International Labour Organization’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen cooperation in the field of research on green jobs, advocacy and policy support.