Director-General's reports

May 2008 

• Freedom of association in practice: Lessons learned. Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2008 - [pdf 1171 KB] - Buy now
  

May 2007 

• Director-General’s introduction to the International Labour Conference: Decent work for sustainable development - [pdf 246 KB]
  
• Equality at work : tackling the challenges. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work. Report of the Director-General, 2007 - [pdf 1750 KB] - Buy now
  Provides a global picture of job-related discrimination, citing both progress and failures in the struggle to fight discrimination ranging from traditional forms such as sex, race or religion, to newer forms based on age, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status and disability.

March 2007 

• The Decent Work Agenda in Africa: 2007–2015; Report of the Director-General to the Eleventh African Regional Meeting, Addis Ababa, April 2007 - [pdf 314 KB]
  

February 2007 

• ILO activities in Africa, 2004-2006; Report of the Director-General to the Eleventh African Regional Meeting, Addis Ababa, April 2007 - [pdf 259 KB]
  Describes the progress, results and outcomes of ILO action between 2004 and 2006 to help member States implement the Ouagadougou Summit’s commitments at the continental, regional and national levels.

August 2006 

• Decent work in Asia : reporting on results 2001-2005 : report of the Director-General, Fourteenth Asian Regional Meeting, Busan, Republic of Korea, August-September 2006 - [pdf 493 KB] - Buy now
  Reviews the achievements in international, regional and national developments relating to fundamental rights, employment, social protection, and social dialogue.
• Realizing decent work in Asia: report of the Director-General, Fourteenth Asian Regional Meeting, Busan, Republic of Korea, August-September 2006 - [pdf 346 KB]
  

May 2006 

• Decent work in the Americas : An agenda for the Hemisphere, 2006-15 ; Sixteenth American Regional Meeting, Brasilia, May 2006 - [pdf 376 KB] - Buy now
  Offers countries in the region a plan of action for 2006-15, with general and specific policy recommendations including a set of concrete targets that can be adapted to the particular situation in individual countries.

April 2006 

• The end of child labour : within reach. Global report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2006 - Buy now
  Presents a global picture tracing child labour trends and outlines national progress and the policies that underpin it. Highlights the progress being made in reducing child labour around the world and examines ILO action on child labour since 2002. ...

March 2006 

• ILO activities in the Americas, 2003-2006; Report of the Director-General to the Sixteenth American Regional Meeting, Brasilia, May 2006 - [pdf 289 KB]
  The report, prepared for the ILO’s 16th American Regional Meeting in Brasilia, 2006, looks at the progress and outcomes of the ILO’s programmes in the region to date.

October 2005 

• The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories. Report of the Director-General to the International Labour Conference, 93rd Session, International Labour Office, Geneva 2005. - [pdf 597 KB]
  

March 2005 

• A global alliance against forced labour. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2005 - [pdf 5917 KB] - Buy now
  This report is the most comprehensive account of contemporary forced labour to date. It provides the first global and regional estimates by an international organization of forced labour in the world today.

May 2004 

• Organizing for social justice. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work. Report of the Director-General, 2004 - [pdf 459 KB] - Buy now
  Freedom of association, and the recognition of the right to bargain collectively, are not only fundamental human rights at work, but also vital elements of economic, social and political processes. ...

June 2003 

• Working out of Poverty: Director-General's report - [pdf 377 KB]
  Focuses on the working poor and the poor who are excluded from work. Shows the "decent work dividends" that accrue to families and societies as a whole through a concerted effort to attack poverty.

April 2003 

• Time for equality at work. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2003 - [pdf 3654 KB] - Buy now
  The ILO’s most comprehensive study to date on discrimination, this timely report argues that the benefits of eliminating discrimination in the workplace transcend the individual and extend to the economy and to society as a whole. ...

January 2003 

• Working out of poverty - Views from Africa - [pdf 151 KB]
  Special Supplementary Report by the Director General, presented to the Tenth African Regional Meeting Addis Ababa, December 2003
• ILO activities in Africa, 2000-2003. Report of the Director-General. Tenth African Regional Meeting Addis Ababa, December 2003. - [pdf 783 KB] - Buy now
  Describes (1) some of the development frameworks adopted by the international community and the African region in response to the social and economic challenges facing the continent, and (2) how the ILO has responded to the emerging development challenges and priorities in Africa through the implementation of relevant activities within the framework of Decent Work Agenda.
• Decent work for Africa’s development - [pdf 183 KB]
  Addresses the importance of promoting more and better jobs as a key part of Africa’s development strategy. Examines trends in growth, employment and poverty during the 1980s and 1990s, reviews changes in international approaches to development and outlines the ILO contribution to new thinking on development policy. ...

July 2002 

• ILO activities in the Americas, 1999-2002 : annex : Fifteenth American Regional Meeting, Lima, December 2002 - [pdf 960 KB]
  Presents an overview on ILO activities in Latin America and the Caribbean in each of the four dimensions of the decent work agenda : fundamental principles and rights at work, employment, social protection and social dialogue. Covers the period August 1999 - June 2002.
• Globalization and decent work in the Americas : Fifteenth American Regional Meeting, Lima, December 2002 - [pdf 349 KB]
  The report, prepared for the ILO’s 15th American Regional Meeting in Lima, 2002, presents the challenges facing the ILO and its constituents in promoting decent work for women and men.