Press releases

March 2000

  1. Press release

    ILO symposium on gender to focus on decent work for women. Discussion to highlight progress since 1995 Women’s Conference and examine "glaring gender gaps"

    23 March 2000

    GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to host a high-level discussion here to examine concerns over the impact of globalization on women in the world of work and how they can close what Director-General Juan Somavia has called "the glaring gender gaps in today’s world."

  2. Press release

    ILO unveils assistance plan for East Timor

    21 March 2000

    GENEVA (ILO News) ­ The International Labour Office (ILO) unveiled today a comprehensive plan for reconstruction, employment and skills training in East Timor.

  3. Press release

    Declaration follow-up, Gender symposium and Myanmar on agenda of 277 th Governing Body session

    15 March 2000

    GENEVA (ILO News) - Gender discrimination, forced labour in Myanmar and the follow-up to the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work are among the major agenda items on the 277 th session of the Governing Body, which gets underway at ILO headquarters in Geneva tomorrow. The session runs from 16-31 st March under the chairmanship of the Governing Body President, Mr Jean-Jacques Elmiger of Switzerland.

  4. Press release

    First annual reports on Core Labour Standards released

    08 March 2000

    GENEVA (ILO News) - The first set of annual reports on core labour standards by States which have not yet ratified one or more of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) seven fundamental Conventions was made public today in anticipation of its examination by the International Labour Office's Governing Body, later this month.

  5. Press release

    Migrants face "significant discrimination" in job markets

    08 March 2000

    GENEVA (ILO News) - Immigrant workers and their families face major hurdles in obtaining jobs according to research published by the International Labour Office (ILO), which finds "significant and disturbing levels of discrimination in access to employment" in Western Europe and other parts of the industrialized world.

  6. Press release

    World migration tops 120 million, says ILO

    02 March 2000

    GENEVA (ILO News) - Far from reducing international migration flows - by moving products instead of people - globalization will give rise to increased migration pressures in the years ahead, says a new book published by the International Labour Office (ILO).

February 2000

  1. Press release

    Technology changes the media/entertainment workforce

    28 February 2000

    GENEVA (ILO News) - The on-line revolution in the media and entertainment industries is changing the way journalists work and overhauling the employment patterns and gender distribution of the world's media and entertainment workforce, according to an ILO report * prepared for a symposium on information technologies which gets underway in Geneva today.

December 1999

  1. Press release

    Fishing among the most dangerous of all professions, says ILO

    13 December 1999

    GENEVA (ILO News) - As many as 24,000 fishermen and persons engaged in fish farming and processing are killed every year putting fishing and related occupations among the most dangerous of all professions, according to a new report released by the International Labour Office (ILO).

  2. Press release

    Ninth African Regional Meeting of ILO completes its work

    11 December 1999

    ABIDJAN (ILO News) - Based on the idea that in Africa "the need to pursue simultaneously the objectives of economic and social efficiency have never appeared as obvious as today", and relying on the report Decent work and protection for all in Africa by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO), the 198 representatives of governments and employers' and workers' organizations from 39 countries expressed the hope that the International Labour Organization will take on greater visibility and influence with the international community and reinforce its synergy with other organizations in order to arrive at the globalization of social progress.

  3. Press release

    New ILO report terms AIDS impact on African labour force "very severe"

    10 December 1999

    ABIDJAN (ILO News) - The AIDS epidemic is killing the most productive members of the workforce in Africa, and threatens to lower productivity, decrease overall demand for goods and services and spawn a new wave of child labourers and AIDS orphans, according to a new ILO report on HIV/AIDS in Africa issued here today.