News
May 2002
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Press release
Work-related fatalities reach 2 million annually
24 May 2002
GENEVA (ILO News) - Two million workers die each year through work-related accidents and diseases and that is just the tip of the iceberg, the International Labour Organization (ILO) reported today.
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Press release
Second Meeting of the World Commission on Social Dimension of Globalization
16 May 2002
GENEVA - The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization will hold its second meeting at the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 20-21 May.
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Press release
Tripartite meeting to discuss global employment, employability and equal opportunities in Postal and Telecommunications Services
10 May 2002
GENEVA (ILO News) - Representatives of workers, employers and governments will sit down at the International Labour Organization's Geneva headquarters on 13-17 May to discuss the prospects for the postal and telecommunications services industries. Both have faced serious difficulties in the past two years as a result of issues revolving around information and communication technologies, globalization and debt.
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Press release
ILO appoints interim Liaison Officer in Myanmar
06 May 2002
GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) has appointed Leon de Riedmatten of the Swiss-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, as its interim Liaison Officer in Myanmar.
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ILO Global Report on Child Labour cites "alarming" extent of its worst forms
06 May 2002
GENEVA (ILO News) - Ten years after launching a worldwide campaign against child labour, the International Labour Office (ILO) today issued a landmark global study showing that despite "significant progress" in efforts to abolish child labour, an alarming number of children are trapped in its worst forms.
April 2002
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Press release
Workers' Memorial Day ceremony to focus on emergency workers, firefighters
24 April 2002
GENEVA - The millions of workers who die each year from work-related accidents or diseases or are injured will be remembered at a special ceremony to mark Workers' Memorial Day on Monday, 29 April at the International Labour Organization's (ILO) headquarters in Geneva. On this occasion, the ILO is bringing its tripartite strength to a campaign initiated in 1995 by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).
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Press release
Boost for workers' rights in Saudi Arabia
18 April 2002
GENEVA (ILO News) - Workers in Saudi Arabia are now able to defend their rights through committees at the workplace, a move welcomed by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia as another step in promoting social and labour rights in the Middle East.
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Press release
ILO's mixed report on working conditions in Cambodian garment industry
12 April 2002
GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) published a mixed report * today on working conditions in Cambodian garment factories where monitors found no evidence of forced labour or discrimination but uncovered problems involving sexual harassment, freedom of association and the payment of wages and overtime hours.
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ILO urges new solutions to old age problems
08 April 2002
GENEVA/MADRID (ILO News) - The number of people aged 60 and over is rapidly increasing throughout the world in a "demographic revolution" that could lead to widespread poverty and social exclusion among the elderly, the International Labour Office (ILO) warns in a new report.
March 2002
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Press release
World Commission urged to expand benefits of globalization
25 March 2002
GENEVA (ILO News) - Leaders from north and south, meeting in the wake of the United Nations international conference on trade and aid in Monterrey, Mexico, today urged the International Labour Organization's new World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization to seek ways of turning words into realities that would reduce poverty, expand economies and fight global uncertainty and despair.