December 2010

1. Improving resilience to protect human health and welfare from the adverse affects of climate change

   6 December 2010

2. International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December 2010

   3 December 2010

   This year's theme is "Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond". It aims to ensure that disability and the concerns of people with disabilities are included in the commitments to end global poverty made by the international community. The inclusion of persons with disabilities in all development activities is essential to realizing the MDGs and other development goals. This year’s Day will serve as a reminder to governments, global leaders, policy-makers and other stakeholders to keep up their efforts on behalf of disability-inclusive development.

3. The ILO Green Jobs Programme: Work of ILO on environment, climate change, green economy and sustainable development

   2 December 2010

November 2010

1. Inter-agency Technical Meeting: Building employment and decent work into sustainable recovery and development – The UN contribution

   29 November - 1 December 2010

2. 

   Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

   29 November - 10 December 2010

   The ILO participates actively in the climate change negotiations at the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) under the United Nation Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC), taking place in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010.

3. CIS regional meeting of European centres

   23 - 24 November 2010

4. 

   Global South-South Development Expo 2010

   22 - 26 November 2010

   Organized by the United Nations, the Global South-South Development Expo provides a forum to enable developing countries and their development partners, including donor agencies, international organizations, to showcase their evidence-based South-South development solutions. Solution forums include social protection and decent work, food security, climate change and environment, HIV/AIDS, global health, and education.

5. Development of a National Occupational Safety and Health Programme for Ukraine

   18 - 19 November 2010

   Ukraine is one of the six pilot countries of the ILO/EU project “Improving safety and health at work through a decent work agenda (2010-2012). Following the inception mission carried out in March 2010 which focused on presenting the project to the main national stakeholders and recruit the national coordinator of the project, this second event aimed to: Participate in a Parliamentary Hearing on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) (November 17th 2010); Hold the first steering committee of the project (November 18th 2010); Conduct a two-day training workshop on the development of a national programme on OSH (November 18th and 19th 2010).

6. The Cost of Forced Labor, Exploitation and Human Trafficking

   9 November 2010

   This Social Development Brown Bag Lunch is part of the Conflict Crime and Violence Cluster's (CCV) continued work to promote an improved understanding of the role of CCV within the development context and promoting effective, practical strategies to reduce and prevent CCV through the World Bank's work.

7. Development of a National Occupational Safety and Health Programme for Malawi

   3 - 5 November 2010

   The workshop’s general objective was to impart the workshop participants with the necessary skills to enable them elaborate a draft version of a National OSH Programme for Malawi. The workshop was aimed at decision-makers and government officials as well as representatives of workers’ organizations and representatives of employers’ organizations involved in the national governance of OSH.