Press releases

November 2004 

• ILO, UNHCR strengthen their collaboration to promote sustainable livelihoods for refugees and displaced persons
  04 November 2004 -
• ILO Governing Body's 291st session to discuss partnerships for "fair globalization", Belarus, Myanmar and other issues
  03 November 2004 - Government, employer and worker representatives will hold a wide-ranging debate on basic labour rights and strategies for new partnerships to promote a fair globalization at the 291st session of the ILO Governing Body, from 4-19 November.

October 2004 

• New ILO book explores "Decent Working Time Deficit" in the industrialized countries
  22 October 2004 -
• New ILO report examines future of work and quality in the media, culture and graphical sector
  15 October 2004 - New media, multimedia and information and communication technologies may increase the demand for journalists, editors, artistes and others in the media, graphical and culture sectors, but compromise the quality of their work and of their working conditions, according to a new International Labour Office (ILO) report.
• Report of ILO Commission of Inquiry says trade union independence has been undermined in Belarus
  08 October 2004 - According to a report ( Note 1) issued by an ILO Commission of Inquiry, several acts by the Government of Belarus give rise to the conclusion that the Belarus trade union movement has been and continues to be the subject of significant interference on the part of Government authorities.
• New ILO programme to tackle discrimination, integration of migrant workers in Europe
  01 October 2004 - The International Labour Office (ILO), with the support of the European Union, today launched a new programme designed to tackle on the job discrimination that in some countries afflicts up to a third of migrant workers.

September 2004 

• Preparatory Technical Maritime Conference concludes successfully Delegates forge new Convention for the maritime industry
  24 September 2004 - The International Labour Organization (ILO) today took a significant step toward the creation of a major new international labour standard that provides a "Seafarers' Bill of Rights" for some 1.2 million maritime workers by consolidating a wide range of maritime standards adopted since the 1920's.
• World leaders call for fair globalization to achieve millennium development goals
  20 September 2004 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, noting that too many people - particularly in developing countries - feel excluded and threatened by globalization, called on world leaders Monday to summon the political will to better manage the economic and social effects of globalization.
• Note to correspondents: Leaders from North and South join forces for a fair globalization
  15 September 2004 - In the most significant attempt yet to shift international debate on globalization from confrontation to dialogue, world leaders from North and South, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), meet here on 20 September to launch a new global discussion on how creating a fair globalization is essential to ensuring peace, prosperity and security for all.
• Preparatory Technical Maritime Conference: ILO moves to consolidate new labour standard for the maritime industry
  13 September 2004 - A new maritime labour Convention that consolidates and updates a wide range of labour standards adopted since the 1920's concerning shipowners and seafarers in the maritime sector will be considered by some 500 tripartite delegates from more than 70 ILO Member States at a two week conference starting here today.
• Media Advisory: Preparatory Technical Maritime Conference 13-24 September ILO member States discuss a new consolidated maritime labour Convention
  08 September 2004 - week international Conference here on Monday 13 September to prepare a new draft maritime labour Convention affecting some 1.2 million seafarers who handle nearly 90 per cent of the world's trade.
• ILO Director-General Addresses Extraordinary Summit of African Union Says, "good national governance will not succeed unless we have good global governance"
  08 September 2004 - The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Juan Somavia, today said that good national governance affirms "Africa's right to expect global fairness" and that "good national governance will not succeed unless we have good global governance."
• Kennesaw State forges partnership for human development with International Labour Office
  08 September 2004 - The Switzerland-based International Labour Office has entered into a three-year partnership with Kennesaw State University aimed at building international development and social change through sport-related initiatives.
• Economic security strengthens tolerance and happiness as well as growth and development
  01 September 2004 - A new study by the International Labour Office (ILO) highlights that people's economic security promotes personal well being, happiness and tolerance, while benefiting growth and development.

August 2004 

• Media advisory: ILO to publish first global survey of economic insecurity
  27 August 2004 - The vast majority of the global workforce today lives in a world marked by economic uncertainty and insecurity over the future, says a new study to be published by the International Labour Office (ILO) on 1 September 2004.
• New ratification opens the way for ILO Convention on seafarers' ID card
  17 August 2004 - An international labour standard designed to create a new biometric identity verification system for the world's 1.2 million maritime workers has received sufficient ratifications to go into force in February 2005, the International Labour Office (ILO) said today.
• Youth unemployment at all time high, new ILO report says half the world's jobless are under 24
  11 August 2004 - Youth unemployment has skyrocketed worldwide over the past decade to some 88 million, according to a new study by the International Labour Office (ILO), reaching an all time high with young people aged 15 to 24 now representing nearly half the world's jobless.

July 2004 

• ILO issues first global analysis of HIV/AIDS impact on the world of work Estimates 36.5 million working age persons now have HIV, 28 million lost to world labour force by 2005
  12 July 2004 - An estimated 36.5 million people of working age have HIV and by next year the global labour force will have lost as many as 28 million workers due to AIDS since the start of the epidemic, according to a new global report by the International Labour Office (ILO) published today.
• ILO to release first global analysis of hiv/aids impact on the world of work
  06 July 2004 - Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and two developed regions. Prepared by the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS in the World of Work, the study provides the most comprehensive data to date on the impact of AIDS in the working world, with extensive data and analysis for the most affected regions of the world.

June 2004 

• Governing Body elects new Chairman, hears report on globalization debate Committee on Freedom of Association cites Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, others
  18 June 2004 - The Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) elected Philippe Séguin, government delegate of France, as Chairman for its 2004-2005 Session and heard a report on the ILO's role in promoting a fair globalization.