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August 2007
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Publication
Spotlight on working time
01 August 2007
Nearly a century after adopting its first international standard on working time, a new ILO study estimates that one in five workers around the world – or over 600 million persons – are still working more than 48 hours a week, often merely to make ends meet.
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Publication
A voice for dialogue and decent work
01 August 2007
In June, the ILO awarded its first annual Decent Work Research Prize to Nobel Peace laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela and the eminent academic and specialist in social security, Professor Carmelo Mesa-Lago...
July 2007
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News
UN ECOSOC reiterates strong support for ILO Decent work Agenda
12 July 2007
In a Ministerial declaration of the 2007 high-level segment of ECOSOC adopted on 10 July, the UN body reiterated its strong support for fair globalization and the need to translate growth into reduction of poverty.
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News
New UN initiative to fight human trafficking and poverty in Tajikistan
09 July 2007
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News
The CEB Toolkit for Mainstreaming Employment and Decent Work presented at the ECOSOC
06 July 2007
One year ago, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) approved a Ministerial Declaration encouraging the UN system to develop a toolkit to promote decent work. Since then the ILO has worked closely with other agencies through the Chief Executives Board (CEB) chaired by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The final product, a CEB Toolkit for Mainstreaming Employment and Decent Work, is designed to help organizations throughout the multilateral system assess and improve employment and decent work outcomes of their own policies, programmes and activities.
June 2007
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Article
Promoting sustainable enterprises: safe work is also good business
21 June 2007
“Sustainable enterprises cannot afford to have injuries and diseases at work, which would not only interrupt operations but may have strong economic and reputational consequences”. Eleven enterprises from the Leningrad region in Russia’s North-West had a chance to check this statement from an ILO report to the International Labour Conference against daily practice. Olga Bogdanova reports from North-West Russia.
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Video
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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Video
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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Video
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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Video
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).