June 1999

1. Press release

   Globalization Needs Social and Political Support Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen addresses International Labour Conference

   15 June 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - Globalization needs social and political support if it is to appear other than as "a terrorizing prospect for precariously placed individuals and communities" delegates to the 87 th International Labour Conference were told today in a special plenary address given by Professor Amartya Sen, the Nobel Laureate in economics in 1998.

2. Press release

   Mr. Henri Konan Bédié, President of the Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire, addresses the International Labour Conference

   10 June 1999

   Geneva (ILO News) - In a speech delivered from the rostrum of the International Labour Conference this morning in Geneva, Mr. Henri Konan Bédié, President of the Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire, launched an appeal for a new vision of development shared by human societies with an ethic linking democracy, globalization, solidarity and justice.

3. Press release

   Madam Ruth Dreifuss, President of the Swiss Confederation, addresses the International Labour Conference

   08 June 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - In an address delivered today to the International Labour Conference in Geneva, the President of the Swiss Confederation, Madam Ruth Dreifuss, called upon the International Labour Organization (ILO) to resume its pioneering role and to redefine its place in the international community so as to be better prepared to meet the social challenges of globalization.

4. Press release

   Indonesia Ratifies Core ILO Conventions ILO pledges support for country's labour-law revision

   07 June 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The Indonesian Minister of Manpower, Mr. Fahmi Idris today submitted the instruments of ratification of International Labour Conventions on the elimination of child labour (No. 138), forced labour (No. 105) and discrimination in employment (No. 111) to the Director-General of the ILO, Mr. Juan Somavia in a ceremony at ILO headquarters in Geneva.

5. Press release

   International Labour Conference Takes Aim at Abusive Forms of Child Labour

   01 June 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - International efforts to improve the lot of millions of child labourers while providing decent work for men and women worldwide took centre stage at the opening of the 87 th International Labour Conference in Geneva today. The Conference, attended by tripartite delegations representing governments, employers and workers from the ILO's 174 member States, is expected to adopt an historic international Convention and Recommendation on eliminating the worst forms of child labour.

May 1999

1. Press release

   International Labour Conference Set to Adopt a New Convention Outlawing the Worst Forms of Child Labour

   31 May 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) – Delegates to the 87 th session of the International Labour Conference, which gets underway in Geneva on Tuesday, 1 June 1999, are set to adopt a new International Convention designed to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, including child slavery and the use of children in activities that are physically and emotionally damaging to their well-being.

2. Press release

   International Labour Office and Inter-Parliamentary Union Sign Cooperative Accord

   27 May 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) today signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation between them, and take practical steps aimed at promoting social justice, democratic principles and human rights.

3. Press release

   International Labour Conference 1-17 June 1999

   26 May 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The 87 th Session of the International Labour Conference opens on Tuesday, 1 st June 1999 at the United Nations Assembly Hall in Geneva and will remain in session until Thursday, 17 June.

4. Press release

   Forced labour in Myanmar still widespread, says ILO

   25 May 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - In spite of the Government's formal statements to the contrary, forced labour remains widespread in Myanmar, says Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO) in a report 1 dispatched to members of the ILO Governing Body on 21 May and made public today.

5. Press release

   ILO to consider sweeping universal ban on worst forms of child labour

   25 May 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO), at its annual Conference here in June, is expected to adopt a new international Convention aimed at an immediate, universal ban on the worst forms of child labour that still afflict millions of children worldwide, and in some cases appear to be worsening.