Events coverage
June 2009
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Announcing an historic agreement to improve labor relations in his country's sugar cane sector, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for new alternatives to solve the global economic crisis (in Portuguese)
15 June 2009
Presidents and delegates gathered in Geneva during the International Labour Conference to discuss the global jobs crisis at the largest global gathering of leaders from the world of work. Heads of State and Government called on the ILO to examine and participate in discussions to find a solution to the jobs crisis.
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Mr. Armando Guebuza, President of the Republic of Mozambique addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis (in Portuguese)
15 June 2009
Presidents and delegates gathered in Geneva during the International Labour Conference to discuss the global jobs crisis at the largest global gathering of leaders from the world of work. Heads of State and Government called on the ILO to examine and participate in discussions to find a solution to the jobs crisis.
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Calling the current economic challenges an "eye opener", President Tarja Halonen of Finland highlights the need for green recovery strategies (in English)
15 June 2009
Presidents and delegates gathered in Geneva during the International Labour Conference to discuss the global jobs crisis at the largest global gathering of leaders from the world of work. Heads of State and Government called on the ILO to examine and participate in discussions to find a solution to the jobs crisis.
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Address by President Lech Kaczyński of Poland to the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis - 15 June 2009 (Video file in Polish)
15 June 2009
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World Day Against Child Labour 2009 in Geneva
12 June 2009
On Friday 12 June 2009, the ILO commemorated the World Day Against Child Labour with a an event organized jointly with the City of Geneva and the Geneva-based community organization "Le Respect" on the Place des Nations with the ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and US Senator Tom Harkin. This year’s World Day also marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182 on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
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Girls in Child Labour Top 100 Million
10 June 2009
ILO expert Frank Hageman presents a new ILO report that despite recent progress in eliminating child labour which affects 218 million children globally, girls make up an estimated 100 million and more than half of them are under the age of 12. The report cites evidence that as a result of the economic crisis, more girls are kept out of school than boys with the result that they may enter the workforce at an early age.
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Climate change and the world of work
09 June 2009
Delegates attending a high-level panel hosted by the Government of Denmark and the ILO discussed the links between climate change and the world of work and the new global climate agreement to be reached in Copenhagen in December 2009. Panellists included Inger Støjberg, Minister of Employment of Denmark, Tariq Banuri, director UN/DESA, Prof. James Heintz, University of Massachusetts, United States, Tatiana Tobias, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Brazil, Ronnie Goldberg, vice-chair International Organisation of Employers (IOE), Alison Tate, International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Australia
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Speech given by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)
03 June 2009
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Speech given by Ms. Petra Ulshoefer, ILO Regional Director for Europe, during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)
03 June 2009
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Speech given by Ms. Sachiko Yamamoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)
03 June 2009