Past events

October 2018

  1. Financial education: Programme design and implementation for policymakers and practitioners

    1 - 5 October 2018

    This year saw the launch of a new training programme bringing together all the accumulated experience, lessons learned and best practices from a variety of actors and institutions globally.

  2. 13th Session of the Joint ILO–UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART)

    1 - 5 October 2018

September 2018

  1. 5th National Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Summit

    27 - 28 September 2018

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) in partnership with Ban Toxics will hold a national ASGM summit that will bring together local stakeholders on ASGM in the Philippines. The event will include a study launch, presentations and discussions on ASGM and the gold supply chain and will highlight the voices of child labourers and miners.

  2. The Future of Work We Want: Workers' Perspectives from Central and Lusophone African Countries

    26 - 27 September 2018

    The conference will bring together together representatives from trade unions, governments, academia as well as employers to discuss the developments that are driving the world of work in the future.

  3. Demonstrating commitment and leadership on equal pay – an EPIC Pledging Event

    26 September 2018

    The main objective of the event is to accelerate the pace towards equal pay for work of equal value, in line with target 8.5 of the SDGs.

  4. XXVIth Meeting of European Labour Court Judges (Madrid, Spain)

    25 - 26 September 2018

    The meeting was organized by the ILO and hosted by the Labour Court of Madrid.

  5. Businesses and Fair Recruitment: promoting responsible business conduct via the joint ILO-EU REFRAME project

    19 - 20 September 2018

    The Regional Multi-stakeholder Forum: Responsible Business Conduct for Safe Labour Migration in ASEAN, supported by the joint ILO-EU REFRAME project, brought together over 90 participants ASEAN ministries in charge of migration and people trafficking, ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights, migrant workers’ organisations, employers’ associations, recruitment agencies, trade unions, women’s groups, civil society organisations, and think-tanks. The forum highlighted good practices and policies at government and company levels to ensure that unfair, exploitative or abusive labour practices of private companies’ partners, suppliers or sub-contractors are addressed, including unethical recruitment.

  6. Global Dialogue Forum on Employment Terms and Conditions in Tertiary Education

    18 - 20 September 2018

    The purpose of the Forum was to examine employment terms and conditions, professional rights and social dialogue mechanisms, including collective bargaining and collegial governance in tertiary education, with the aim of adopting points of consensus, including recommendations for future action by the International Labour Organization and its Members.

  7. Consultative workshop on SDG indicator 10.7.1 guidelines for measuring recruitment costs

    13 September 2018

    On September 13-14 2018, the ILO and World Bank, with the financial support of the EU, held a consultative workshop to determine how best to promote the adoption and production of an internationally comparable SDG indicator on recruitment costs.

  8. ILO at the 39th session of the Human Rights Council

    10 - 28 September 2018