Press releases
March 2000
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Opening of the Ninth African Regional Meeting of ILO. Put social dialogue at the heart of all Africa's economic and social policies, ILO Director-General urges
08 December 1999
ABIDJAN (ILO News) - While insisting on the need for public awareness of the main challenges facing Africa in this end-of-century period - challenges which include "a rate of growth insufficient to attenuate extreme poverty, the persistence of ethnic conflicts and civil wars and the crushing burden of debt servicing" - Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO), appealed "that everyone on the continent, man or woman, should have access to decent and productive work in conditions of liberty, equity, security and dignity".
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ILO Conference to Promote "Decent Work" in Africa
06 December 1999
ABIDJAN (ILO News) - Despite a return to economic growth in many African countries, the condition of the vast majority of the continent's workforce at the close of the century is characterized by declining living standards, rising unemployment and increasing poverty, according to an ILO report prepared for the Ninth Africa Regional Meeting which opens in Abidjan on 8 December 1999.