Events and campaigns

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Ongoing and upcoming

24 November 2008 - 05 December 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians
The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians has been convened by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office in its 300th Session (November 2007) to discuss and adopt international statistical standards on two topics, Child Labour and Working Time. ... (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)
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)
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

06 November 2008 - 21 November 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
303rd Session of the Governing Body - 6-21 November 2008
Amid growing concern over the impact of economic turmoil on workers, employers and governments, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) took the first steps toward forging employment and social policy responses through social dialogue aimed at meeting the challenges of the deepening global economic crisis. (Meeting)
29 October 2008 - 31 October 2008, Geneva
Joint ILO/IMO/Basel Convention Working Group on Ship Scrapping (Third Session)
(Meeting)
01 October 2008 - 02 October 2008, Geneva
International Symposium on Building Fair Financial Markets for All - Profitable Investment Opportunities in Micro and Small Businesses
Leading researchers, microfinance investors, investment intermediaries and microfinance providers will share insights and develop guidelines for the private sector to unleash the potential of microfinance. Among keynote speakers, Mr Somavia and the Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, will adress the forum. (Symposium)
22 September 2008, New York, USA
High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: A Decent Work Approach to Development and the MDGs"
(Conference)
- Speech of Ela Bhatt at the High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at the UN General Assembly in New York on 25 September 2008. - [pdf 14 KB]
- Mary Robinson Speech, New York, 22 September 2008 - [pdf 15 KB]

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