News
February 2006
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Press release
ILO adopts sweeping new charter for maritime sector: New Convention will guarantee "quality shipping" worldwide
23 February 2006
The International Labour Organization today overwhelmingly adopted a comprehensive new labour standard for the world's maritime sector, in what ILO Director-General Juan Somavia called a landmark development in the world of work.
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Article
Sharing profit, knowledge and power: Worker-owned businesses
21 February 2006
The number of employee-owned businesses such as John Lewis in the United Kingdom where the share capital is held for the benefit of the workforce remains relatively small. However, a recent ILO publication ( Note 1), suggests that this form of company structure is both successful in business terms and more widely applicable. Andrew Bibby reports for ILO Online from London.
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Article
Sharing profit, knowledge and power: Worker-owned businesses
21 February 2006
The number of employee-owned businesses such as John Lewis in the United Kingdom where the share capital is held for the benefit of the workforce remains relatively small. However, a recent ILO publication ( Note 1), suggests that this form of company structure is both successful in business terms and more widely applicable. Andrew Bibby reports for ILO Online from London.
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Press release
ILO Director-General says new maritime Convention on track to make "labour history"
20 February 2006
A new consolidated maritime labour Convention, to be voted here on Thursday by the International Labour Organization's Maritime labour Conference, reflects "labour history" in the making by providing a modern approach to addressing decent work and a fair globalization, ILO Director-General Juan Somavia said today.
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Press release
International Women's Day 2006 to focus on women in sport
17 February 2006
The International Labour Office (ILO) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are to host a range of events for International Women's Day on 8 March, including a round-table discussion on women in sports featuring international sports personalities and the presentation of the IOC's annual "Women in Sport" awards.
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Article
Skill is power: broadening partnerships to promote youth employment
13 February 2006
According to ILO estimates, nearly half of the world's more than 190 million unemployed people are under the age of 24. A target of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to give young people a chance to find decent and productive work. ILO Online reports from Jamaica where the National Training Agency and the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) promote learning opportunities and skills young people can use when they get out of school.
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Press release
33 tons of warm clothing collected by ILO personnel for Pakistan quake victims
09 February 2006
Thirty-three tons of warm clothes collected locally under an initiative launched by a group of staff of the International Labour Office left the ILO building today bound for Pakistan quake victims.
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Press release
ILO opens 94th International Labour Conference, Maritime Session
07 February 2006
The International Labour Organization (ILO) began consideration today of a draft Convention on maritime labour standards, which if adopted will represent the most sweeping and comprehensive global legal instrument ever forged regarding the world's shipowners, seafarers and maritime nations.
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Press release
ILO to adopt 'bill of rights' for seafarers
06 February 2006
The first Maritime Session of the International Labour Conference of the 21st century scheduled here between 7-23 February 2006 will consider a major new international labour instrument, the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.
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Article
Maritime Session of the International Labour Conference (7-23 February 2006): A new standard for the global shipping industry
02 February 2006
Nearly 1.2 million seafarers work for the world's shipping industry. The ILO now heads for a new Maritime Labour Convention reflecting the needs of a globalized shipping industry. If adopted, the standard will consolidate and update more than 65 international labour standards adopted over the last 80 years. ILO Online spoke with Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director of the ILO's International Labour Standards Department, about the new Convention.