Events coverage
September 2007
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East Asia is the growth productivity story of the decade, according to new figures from the Key Indicators of the Labour Market, released this week at a press conference in Geneva
03 September 2007
East Asia showed some of the fastest labour productivity growth rates in economic history, according to Jose Manuel Salazar, Executive Director of the ILO Employment Sector, speaking at a press conference for the launch of the 5th edition of the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM).
June 2007
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Professor Carmelo Mesa-Lago accepts the ILO Decent Work Research Prize
15 June 2007
The International Labour Organization today awarded its first annual Decent Work Research Prize to Nobel peace laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela and to the eminent academic and specialist in social security, Professor Carmelo Mesa-Lago, citing their contributions to improving the lives of people around the world.
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Nelson Mandela's acceptance address on receiving the Decent Work Research Prize 2007
15 June 2007
In a video address to the International Labour Conference, Nelson Mandela describes decent work as “the right not only to survive but to prosper and to have a dignified and fulfilling quality of life.”
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H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, addresses the 96th International Labour Conference
15 June 2007
On the closing day of the International Labour Conference, the President of Sri Lanka stressed the need for political objectives in his country to be achieved "through negotiation and dialogue".
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Adoption of the new fishing convention
14 June 2007
Innovative new labour standards designed to improve the conditions for roughly 30 million men and women working in the fishing sector worldwide were adopted today at the 96th annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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His Royal Highness Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias, addresses the 96th International Labour Conference
13 June 2007
Addressing government, worker and employer delegates at the annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO), His Royal Highness Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias today highlighted the need to “humanize” economic change and ensure that globalization offers “real advantages for all”.
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President Abdoulaye Wade of the Republic of Senegal - Excerpts from his address to the ILC
12 June 2007
President Abdoulaye Wade of the Republic of Senegal tells delegates to the 96th International Labour Conference that Africa faces a paradox at a time when it is opening its markets to the world, its share in that market is under 2 per cent.
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International agencies join forces with ILO to launch global partnership to tackle child labour in agriculture
12 June 2007
In a ceremony marking a new global partnership to tackle child labour in agriculture, representatives from the FAO, IFAD, IFPRI, CGIAR, IFAP and the IUF signed an agreement at a side event to the International Labour Conference committing their organizations to a concerted effort to reach the target of ending the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
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Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller cites Decent Work Agenda as critical to stemming tidal wave of frustration
12 June 2007
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller warned the delegates of the 96th International Labour Conference in Geneva of a "human tsunami" of rage and rebellion if more was not done to address the issue of poverty in a meaningful way. She said the Decent Work Agenda was essential to balanced economic and social development.
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His Highness, the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa calls for regional summit on labour issues, globalization
11 June 2007
His Highness, the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa stressed the need for "true social dialogue, true debate" about the issues and impacts of globalization in the Middle East and worldwide, in his address to the 96th International Labour Conference in Geneva.