Events and training on labour migration

July 2014

  1. Meeting

    Advisory Committee Meeting of the Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families

    25 July 2014

    The first Advisory Committee meeting of the Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and the Families (GAP-MDW) was held in the premises of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine with an aim to ensure an effective project implementation on a country level.

  2. Event

    Training on Fostering the Social and Professional Reintegration of Return Migrants

    14 - 18 July 2014

    An ILO training course providing advanced knowledge with which to foster the contribution to development of return migrants, and offering ground-breaking information about their patterns of social and professional reintegration.

  3. Event

    GFMD-GMG Side Event on Fair Migration and the Sustainable Post-2015 Development Agenda

    9 July 2014

  4. Event

    GFMD 2015: Fair Migration and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda

    9 July 2014

    This GFMD side event will allow participants to discuss some of the practical ways in which the post-2015 development framework might incorporate migrants and migration that are needed to advance inclusive, equitable and sustainable development, and how the GFMD and GMG, working with the SRSG and other stakeholders such as social partners, migrant and diaspora associations and civil society generally, might contribute to and bolster this process.

  5. Event

    ASEAN Labour Inspection Conference 2014

    3 - 4 July 2014

    It is the succeeding event to three previous conferences that tackled and provided recommendations on national and ASEAN-level issues which included developing new methods and tools for improving labour inspection effectiveness, strengthening enforcement of national safety and health laws, and concerns surrounding labour migration, child labour, and the agricultural sector.

  6. Training

    Training to Trade Unions on Safe Migration and Victims’ Assistance

    1 July 2014

    The Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW) conducted a ToT on safe migration and victims’ assistance to building the capacity of trainers to undertake pre-decision community work with potential migrant women workers.

  7. Event

    Civil Society Forum on ILO Domestic Workers' Convention, 2011 (No.189)

    1 - 2 July 2014

    The increasing participation of national workers in the formal sectors of the economy generates the necessity to hire foreign workers to perform domestic chores.

June 2014

  1. Event

    Labour Migration Academy and Academia sobre las migraciones laborales (bilingual course)

    16 June - 28 November 2014

    This interregional training activity on international labour migration reviews and analyses key issues, strategies, policies and tools for managing international labour migration. In addition to general sessions around three main themes, protection, development and governance, the academy offers the possibility to participants to analyze in-depth key issues of labour migration. The academy will therefore give a broad overview of the different challenges and opportunities related to international labour migration, but it will also give the opportunity to participants to specialize themselves in a specific thematic. Throughout the two-week course, the sharing of international experiences will be highlighted.

  2. ILO Study

    Obstacles to justice for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon unveiled at report launch

    13 June 2014

    The ILO and local NGO Caritas share findings of a landmark report on the legal, procedural and institutional challenges facing migrant domestic workers seeking justice in Lebanon.

May 2014

  1. Event

    Meeting of Focal Specialists on International Labour Migration Statistics in ASEAN

    27 May 2014

    The ILO’s ASEAN TRIANGLE Project recently developed the International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database to gather statistical information on migrant workers in the ten ASEAN member states, including a range of previously unpublished sources.