I-news

2007 

• OSCE-IOM-ILO launch Handbook on Labour Migration for the Mediterranean
  12 December 2007 - ILO together with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are launching a major new tool here today to assist governments and social partners around the Mediterranean to regulate labour migration.
• Experts from seven South-East European countries discussed the youth employment challenge
  12 December 2007 - Despite increased economic growth, the inability of economies to create enough decent and productive jobs is hitting youth especially hard, experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia concluded at a meeting here on 6 and 7 December.
• South Eastern European ministers of labour boost regional cooperation on employment and social policy
  26 October 2007 - High-level government, employers’ and workers’ representatives from nine South Eastern European countries adopted today an agreement, the “Montenegro conclusions”, that puts employment at the heart of economic and social policies.
• ILO documentary to be screened at environmental movie festival in Italy
  11 October 2007 - Turning waste into wages is the goal of an ambitious project in Burkina Faso and the subject of an International Labour Office documentary to be screened by the Italian Film Festival "CinemAmbiente" in Turin, Italy.
• Promoting better occupational safety and health through effective labour inspection to make Decent Work a global reality - Düsseldorf International Conference “Making Decent Work a Global Goal and a National Reality”
  09 October 2007 - From 18-20 September 2007 over 200 participants from 65 countries from all over the world met in Düsseldorf (Germany) to discuss the practical aspects of implementing international standards for decent work. ...
• Highlights of keynote speakers at the ILO Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization
  01 October 2007 - Political and opinion leaders from around the globe are meeting in Lisbon, Portugal from 31 October to 2 November 2007 to discuss the role of decent work as the key to economic, social and environmental sustainability and a fair and inclusive globalization. Here are highlights of keynote speeches delivered in plenary sessions.
  • ILO Forum on Decent Work for a Fair Globalization
• XV Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour of the Organization of American States
  25 September 2007 -
• Peru Earthquake Response: ILO calls for integrated employment strategy in UN Flash Appeal
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• Unemployment, informality and inactivity menace young people in Latin America and the Caribbean
  04 September 2007 - ILO calls for better use of the growth, development and poverty reduction potential of 106 million youth in the region.
• UN ECOSOC reiterates strong support for ILO Decent work Agenda
  12 July 2007 - In a Ministerial declaration of the 2007 high-level segment of ECOSOC adopted on 10 July, the UN body reiterated its strong support for fair globalization and the need to translate growth into reduction of poverty.
  • ECOSOC 2007 Ministerial Declaration