Press releases

April 2002 

• Workers' Memorial Day ceremony to focus on emergency workers, firefighters
  24 April 2002 - GENEVA - The millions of workers who die each year from work-related accidents or diseases or are injured will be remembered at a special ceremony to mark Workers' Memorial Day on Monday, 29 April at the International Labour Organization's (ILO) headquarters in Geneva. ...
• Boost for workers' rights in Saudi Arabia
  18 April 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Workers in Saudi Arabia are now able to defend their rights through committees at the workplace, a move welcomed by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia as another step in promoting social and labour rights in the Middle East.
• ILO's mixed report on working conditions in Cambodian garment industry
  12 April 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) published a mixed report * today on working conditions in Cambodian garment factories where monitors found no evidence of forced labour or discrimination but uncovered problems involving sexual harassment, freedom of association and the payment of wages and overtime hours.
• ILO urges new solutions to old age problems
  08 April 2002 - GENEVA/MADRID (ILO News) - The number of people aged 60 and over is rapidly increasing throughout the world in a "demographic revolution" that could lead to widespread poverty and social exclusion among the elderly, the International Labour Office (ILO) warns in a new report.

March 2002 

• World Commission urged to expand benefits of globalization
  25 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Leaders from north and south, meeting in the wake of the United Nations international conference on trade and aid in Monterrey, Mexico, today urged the International Labour Organization's new World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization to seek ways of turning words into realities that would reduce poverty, expand economies and fight global uncertainty and despair.
• ILO Governing Body concludes 283rd session
  22 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office's (ILO) Governing Body concluded its 283 rd session here today following two weeks of discussions over issues including forced labour in Myanmar, the impact of globalization and the employment situation in Afghanistan.
• ILO's World Commission on Globalization begins work
  22 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Against a backdrop of heightened concern over the link between global security and economic development, the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization begins work here on 25-26 March to forge a blueprint for reducing inequities in the global economic system.
• ILO and Inter-Parliamentary Union in campaign against worst forms of child labour
  14 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Morocco's Princess Lalla Meriem will officially open on 20 March the first meeting of a special panel of delegates from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and International Labour Organization (ILO) experts charged with helping mobilize international political will to eliminate the worst forms of child labour.
• Freedom of Association: Key ILO Body to Mark 50 th Anniversary
  13 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Under the title "Voice, Freedom, Security: 50 years of the Committee on Freedom of Association", the 50 th anniversary of the CFA will be marked with a roundtable on 14 March at 18:30 in the International Labour Office Governing Body room (ILO, R-3 level).
• ILO Governing Body to consider globalization,9/11 aftermath and labour standards in Myanmar
  08 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The challenges of globalization, the labour situation in Myanmar and the employment and social consequences of September 11 th top the agenda of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) which opens its 283 rd session here on 11 March.
• International Women's Day, 8 March 2002
  05 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Women have paid a heavy price in the conflicts that have racked many areas of the world during the past decade - such as in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.
• ILO Protocol on seafarers' conditions of work sets international legal precedent
  04 March 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) campaign for minimum standards at work for seafarers has received an important boost with the forthcoming entry into force of two key international labour standards governing hours of work and the right to inspect ships.

February 2002 

• ILO Tackles Social Consequences of Globalization
  27 February 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) today launched a top-level commission comprising Presidents, politicians, academics, social experts and a Nobel Economics laureate which, for the first time, will address the social dimension of globalization.
• Job losses in oil and gas industry spotlight need for good industrial relations
  21 February 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The size of the workforce in the world's oil and gas industries, buffeted by changing corporate structures and privatization, has slumped dramatically in the past 25 years, according to a report * from the International Labour Office (ILO) released here ahead of a five-day tripartite meeting of industry experts beginning February 25.
• More equitable globalization and defense of cultural identity: it's the same fight!
  14 February 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) share a set of strong core values. ...

January 2002 

• Tripartite meeting on civil aviation seeks way out of airline crisis
  25 January 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - An International Labour Organization (ILO) tripartite meeting on civil aviation concluded today with a call for comprehensive worldwide standards to improve airline security and protect employees as well as employers as the struggling industry seeks to recover from its worst crisis since the Second World War.
• ILO meeting to focus on turmoil in airline industry
  18 January 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Representatives of workers, employers and governments will sit down at the International Labour Organization's Geneva headquarters 21-25 January to search for solutions to the crisis that has racked world airlines since the events of 11 September last year.
• ILO waves "red card" at child labour
  15 January 2002 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) will launch its "Red Card to Child Labour" campaign this week to coincide with the start of the 2002 African Cup of Nations that begins Saturday (Jan. 19) in Bamako, Mali.

December 2001 

• East European Healthcare in Crisis
  10 December 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - The grim economic situation in Eastern Europe is taking a heavy toll on state-run health services, creating a severe "crisis in care" for an impoverished population left increasingly vulnerable to chronic illness, worsening epidemics of HIV/AIDS and other diseases and ultimately, reduced life expectancy.
• Recruitment practices pose problems for construction industry
  06 December 2001 - GENEVA (ILO News) - Decades of flexible labour market policies have had such a profound impact on income, conditions of work and employment security in the construction sector that the industry is having great difficulty attracting new recruits, according to a report prepared for an International Labour Office (ILO) meeting (10-15 December 2001) of industry experts.