News
March 2009
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Governing Body
ILO Governing Body to discuss response to the economic and social crisis
04 March 2009
The Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) which opened on 5 March is to examine urgent new policies and measures to mitigate the severe impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the world of work and to stimulate a sustainable economic recovery.
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International Women’s Day
ILO to launch a New report on global employment trends for women: Hold Women's Day event on impact of financial crisis on work and family
02 March 2009
The International Labour Office (ILO) will mark International Women’s Day 2009 with the launch on Thursday, 5 March, of a new report assessing the impact of the global financial crisis on women in the world of work.
February 2009
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Global financial crisis
ILO delegates call for urgent new policy measures to address growing job losses in the financial sector
27 February 2009
Worker, employer and government representatives called for urgent new policies and measures to mitigate the severe impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the more than 20 million financial sector workers worldwide and to stimulate a sustainable economic recovery.
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Microfinance
Microfinance and the real economy: impacts and outcomes of the global economic crisis
26 February 2009
The current economic and social crisis provides an opportunity to re-think values and business models in finance. ILO Online spoke with Bernd Balkenhol, chief of the ILO’s Social Finance Programme.
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Commission of Inquiry on Zimbabwe
Commission of Inquiry on Zimbabwe begins its work, mindful of the process of dialogue and reconciliation underway in the country
24 February 2009
The Commission of Inquiry, set up by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office at its 303rd Session (November 2008) to examine complaints concerning the observance by Zimbabwe of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), held its first session in Geneva from 18-20 February 2009.
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Global financial crisis
ILO meeting to discuss employment crunch in the financial sector
23 February 2009
More than 100 senior representatives of governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, gather here on 24-25 February to discuss the impact of the economic crisis on the more than 20 million people employed in the financial sector worldwide.
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Maritime Labour Convention
Achieving the seafarers’ international bill of rights: more than half way there!
23 February 2009
When the ILO adopted the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) on 23 February 2006, Director-General Juan Somavia called it a historic moment for the world’s more than 1.2 million seafarers. Three years on, in line with the ILO’s five-year Action Plan, this key global agreement has now been ratified by five major flag States and key ILO Members, representing nearly 45 per cent of the world’s gross tonnage. Many more Member ratifications supported by international industry agreements are already under way.
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Friday 20 February
Media advisory - ILO to mark the first World Day of Social justice
19 February 2009
The International Labour Office will mark the first World Day of Social Justice on 20 February with a debate on the theme “The crisis: threat or opportunity for social justice?”
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Event
Asia-Pacific countries meet to discuss responses to global economic crisis
18 February 2009
Ministries of labour and finance, senior UN, World Bank and government officials, workers and employers representatives from more than 10 Asia and the Pacific countries are meeting in Manila this week to discuss effective responses to the current economic crisis.
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Microinsurance Innovation Facility
Microinsurance Innovation Facility calls for new proposals - Projects would encourage innovation, promote insurance services to the poor
17 February 2009
The ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility today issued a call for new proposals for grants to encourage insurance providers to experiment with new products and partnerships aimed at bringing effective and affordable risk management solutions to working poor in developing countries.