Events and campaigns

Ongoing and upcoming

• 22 December 2008 - 23 December 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  90 years working for social justice
  As the ILO celebrates its 90th anniversary, plans are already under way for the 100th. The ILO’s Century Project aims to ensure that the ILO reaches its centenary with as complete as possible an understanding of the success achieved to date and the conditions for that success, as well as the challenges and difficulties faced. (Campaign)
  • UPU - Letter-writing competition
• 09 February 2009 - 13 February 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
  8th European Regional Meeting
  The 8th European Regional Meeting (ERM) will provide the space for governments and worker and employer organisations, from across Europe and Central Asia, to come together and shape the ILO's future strategy in the European and Central Asian member countries of the ILO. There will also be a high level panel discussion with Prime Ministers from several European countries and representatives from worker and employer organisations. (Meeting)

Recent events and campaigns

• 04 December 2008 - 05 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  Seminar on ‘Employment and unemployment: Revisiting the relevance and conceptual basis of the statistics’
  This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of the Resolution. (Seminar)
• 03 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
  ILO Side Event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference
  Co-hosted together with ITU, UNEP, ITUC and IOE, this event focuses on how ICT can help to shift from a high to a low carbon global economy and on the Green Jobs Initiative: towards decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon World. The event was chaired by Peter Poschen, ILO. (Conference)
• 03 December 2008 - 07 December 2008, Dakar
  In a series of events mobilizing actors from private and public workplaces, the ILO underlined the importance of concerted efforts in the world of work for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS
  (Conference)
• 01 December 2008 - 03 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  Workshop on the use of the "Training Toolkit on HIV/AIDS for the road transport sector" - [pdf 246 KB]
  The general aim of this workshop is to build the capacity of the employers and workers in the road transport sector to provide sector specific training on HIV/AIDS. (Workshop)

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