News
March 2000
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Press release
Forced labour persists in Myanmar
29 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) - In an action unprecedented in the ILO's 80-year history, the Organization's Governing Body has set in motion a discussion in its June 2000 Conference, which could result in an appeal to its other 174 member States to review their relationship with the Government of Myanmar (Burma) and to take appropriate measures to ensure that Myanmar "cannot take advantage of such relations to perpetuate or extend the system of forced or compulsory labour" practised against the country's citizens.
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Press release
ILO programme seeks to address labour market woes in West Bank and Gaza. Appeals to donors for funding
23 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) – The Geneva-based International Labour Organization in appealing to the international community to fund a three-year, US$ 20 million programme with the goal of strengthening the job- and income-generating capacity of small- and micro-enterprises in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
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Press release
ILO symposium on gender to focus on decent work for women. Discussion to highlight progress since 1995 Women’s Conference and examine "glaring gender gaps"
23 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to host a high-level discussion here to examine concerns over the impact of globalization on women in the world of work and how they can close what Director-General Juan Somavia has called "the glaring gender gaps in today’s world."
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Press release
ILO unveils assistance plan for East Timor
21 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) The International Labour Office (ILO) unveiled today a comprehensive plan for reconstruction, employment and skills training in East Timor.
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Press release
Declaration follow-up, Gender symposium and Myanmar on agenda of 277 th Governing Body session
15 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) - Gender discrimination, forced labour in Myanmar and the follow-up to the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work are among the major agenda items on the 277 th session of the Governing Body, which gets underway at ILO headquarters in Geneva tomorrow. The session runs from 16-31 st March under the chairmanship of the Governing Body President, Mr Jean-Jacques Elmiger of Switzerland.
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Press release
First annual reports on Core Labour Standards released
08 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) - The first set of annual reports on core labour standards by States which have not yet ratified one or more of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) seven fundamental Conventions was made public today in anticipation of its examination by the International Labour Office's Governing Body, later this month.
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Press release
Migrants face "significant discrimination" in job markets
08 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) - Immigrant workers and their families face major hurdles in obtaining jobs according to research published by the International Labour Office (ILO), which finds "significant and disturbing levels of discrimination in access to employment" in Western Europe and other parts of the industrialized world.
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Press release
World migration tops 120 million, says ILO
02 March 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) - Far from reducing international migration flows - by moving products instead of people - globalization will give rise to increased migration pressures in the years ahead, says a new book published by the International Labour Office (ILO).
February 2000
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Press release
Technology changes the media/entertainment workforce
28 February 2000
GENEVA (ILO News) - The on-line revolution in the media and entertainment industries is changing the way journalists work and overhauling the employment patterns and gender distribution of the world's media and entertainment workforce, according to an ILO report * prepared for a symposium on information technologies which gets underway in Geneva today.
December 1999
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Press release
Fishing among the most dangerous of all professions, says ILO
13 December 1999
GENEVA (ILO News) - As many as 24,000 fishermen and persons engaged in fish farming and processing are killed every year putting fishing and related occupations among the most dangerous of all professions, according to a new report released by the International Labour Office (ILO).