I-news

2008 

• Supporting the cooperative movement in Africa: the launching of the CoopAfrica website
  03 July 2008 - The CoopAfrica website provides a description of the technical cooperation programme for the promotion and development of cooperatives in Africa.
  • CoopAfrica website
• World Congress calls for new global partnership to improve work safety
  02 July 2008 - The XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work concluded with calls for a new global partnership to strengthen safety and health in the workplace, and to reinforce efforts to reduce fatalities and illness.
• XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work opens in Seoul: ILO report highlights need for safer workplaces
  29 June 2008 - The International Labour Office has released a new report “Beyond deaths and injuries: The ILO’s role in promoting safe and healthy jobs”, at the XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work. The Congress, which takes place through 2 July, is the largest global event on occupational safety and health, gathering some 4,000 representatives from more than 100 countries.
  • Report - Beyond deaths and injuries: The ILO’s role in promoting safe and healthy jobs - [pdf 733 KB]
• High-level meeting in Turin from 1 to 3 July on “The European social model in the context of globalization”
  24 June 2008 - Seven Ministers of Labour, the European Commissioner Vladimír Špidla, the Director-General of the ILO, Juan Somavia, and a vast number of experts are expected to take part.
• Denmark significantly expands partnership agreement with the International Labour Organization (ILO) with new US$12.5 million grant
  16 June 2008 - The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has significantly expanded its partnership agreement with the International Labour Organization (ILO) with a new grant of DKK 60 million (approximately US$ 12,5 million) for 2008-09. Projects are to promote tripartism and decent work, improve job quality in Africa and explore flexibile labour market policies in Viet Nam.
• Indonesia marks 10th anniversary of ratifying ILO Convention on Freedom of Association
  09 June 2008 - To mark the tenth anniversary of the ratification of ILO core Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association by Indonesia, the Government of Indonesia and the International Labour Organization (ILO) will launch a Photo Exhibition, “A Portrait of the World of Work in Indonesia”, on Monday, 9 June 2008, at the ILO Library, Geneva.
• Ratifications of the 1997 Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the ILO and of International Labour Standards
  09 June 2008 - The Director of the International Labour Standards Department and the Legal Adviser received ratifications of the 1997 Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the ILO and of International Labour Conventions.
• ILO and FAO launch a new joint website on "Food, Agriculture and Decent Work"
  06 June 2008 - The International Labour Office (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today launched a new website designed to highlight the many areas in which they already work together and others in which they are contemplating joint activities.
  • Food, Agriculture & Decent Work : the joint FAO-ILO website
• Flexicurity for decent work: A labour market policy approach - [pdf 246 KB]
  05 June 2008 - The search for a better combination of flexibility and security regarding employment, income and social protection is a major challenge within the European Union. Denmark has been a pioneer in implementing a system of “flexicurity” in its labour market. ...
• Labour Organization Journalistic Prize awarded to Misako Hida for her article on "death from overwork"
  04 June 2008 - Dying from overwork in ‘the Land of Karoshi’: The article that won the first International Labour Organization Journalistic Prize.