Past events

October 2013

  1. Communicating Labour Rights: A training course for African media professionals at ITC-ILO

    7 - 11 October 2013

    African media professionals are trained on how best to use International Labour Standards and the work of the ILO supervisory bodies to increasingly report and raise public awareness of human and labour rights and their relevance to social development issues.

  2. Launch of the Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and Their Families (GAP-MDW) at the UN High-level Dialogue on Migration and Development

    3 October 2013

    The EU funded Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and Their Families (GAP-MDW) was launched at the 2nd High-level Dialogue on Migration and Development of the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

  3. The 2013 UN General Assembly High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development

    3 - 4 October 2013

    The Second UN High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD) took place 3-4 October in New York at the UN General Assembly, where the international community sought to identify concrete measures to strengthen coherence and cooperation in order to enhance the development benefits of international migration for migrants and countries alike.

  4. High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development

    3 - 4 October 2013

  5. Lauching of Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers at High-level Panel Discussion "Making Decent Work a Reality for Migrant Domestic Workers"

    3 October 2013

    The ILO, in partnership with the Governments of Italy and the Philippines and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, is organizing a high level panel discussion on "Making Decent Work a Reality for Migrant Domestic Workers" on the side of the High-level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York on Thursday, 3 October 2013.

  6. 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians

    2 - 11 October 2013

    The Conference will consider for adoption revised draft standards of labour force and work statistics, including a set of measures of labour underutilization to supplement the unemployment rate. If adopted, the revised statistical standards will update the resolution of statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment adopted by the 13th ICLS (1982), and related guidelines.

September 2013

  1. XXIst Meeting of European Labour Court Judges (Vienna, Austria)

    30 September - 1 October 2013

  2. Innovations in Labour Migration Governance and Development Outcomes: Making Decent Work a Reality for Migrant Workers

    26 September 2013

    The Government of Sweden and the ILO’s Labour Migration Branch co-hosted a High-level Breakfast Roundtable on Innovations in Labour Migration Governance and Development Outcomes: Making Decent Work a Reality for Migrant Workers, ahead of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development on 26 September, 2013.

  3. International symposium on culture of prevention – Future approaches

    25 - 27 September 2013

    The aim of the Symposium is to bring together researchers, experts and European and international networks in the field to discuss the aims, means and solutions of developing a culture of prevention in organizations and workplaces.

  4. Meeting of Experts to Adopt Guidelines on the Training of Ships’ Cooks

    23 - 27 September 2013

    The Meeting of Experts to Adopt Guidelines on the Training of Ships’ Cooks was held from 23 to 27 September 2013 at the International Labour Office in Geneva.