Organisation
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Works on-the-ground to combat child labour in over 60 countries
UN specialised agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.
- WWW site: offers full text of official documents and conventions, access to ILO databases (see below); information on ILO projects; employment opportunities
- LABORDOC: bibliographic database of the ILO Library and Documentation Centres. Includes full text access to recent documents and references back to 1919. Available free on the WWW.
- Labour Force Surveys database: Compilation of national data and ILO sources, managed by the ILO Library.
- THESAURUS: database of the ILO Thesaurus, managed by the ILO Library. Available free on WWW site.
- NATLEX: labour and social security legislation indexed by the Labour Law Information Branch. Includes the full text of basic legislation. Available free on WWW site.
- CISDOC: bibliographic database of the International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre
- ILOTERM: database of ILO terminology, managed by the Translation and Meetings Branch. Contains English, French, Spanish and German equivalents of terms in the social and labour fields. Available free on WWW site
- TRIBLEX: case law of the ILO Administrative Tribunal. Arranged thematically. Available free on WWW
- ILOLEX: A database on international labour standards containing ILO Conventions and recommendations. Available free on WWW site
- LABORSTA DATABASE: a subset of LABORSTA, the ILO's statistical database used to produce the "Yearbook of Labour Statistics", is available online through the UN International Computing Centre. For registration, contact the UNICC Help Desk, International Computing Centre, Palais des Nations, 8-14 avenue de la Paix, CH 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland.(Tel: +41 22 792 3205; Fax: +41 22 733 7926; Cable: UNICC GENEVE; Telex: 415790 ICC CH).
- International Labour Information System (ILIS): body responsible for above services, and for developing internal ILO technical/information services
Published Documents
- World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour
- International Labour Organization, 2013
- What can be done to ensure more – and faster – progress in tackling child labour? This report argues that child labour is driven in part by household vulnerabilities associated with poverty, risk and shocks, and that social ...
- Unravelling the impact of the global financial crisis on the South African labour market
- S. Verick / International Labour Organization, 2010
- South Africa, Africa’s largest economy, fell into recession half way through 2008, with job losses numbering almost 900,000. Real GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009 suggested that the South African economy was exiting recess...
- Making migration a development factor: the case of North and West Africa
- International Labour Organization, 2010
- Migration can be a positive factor in the development of countries of origin through two main channels - remittances and return migration. But, in looking at five countries (Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia) this repo...
- Working towards sustainable development: opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy
- P. Poschen / International Labour Organization, 2012
- This joint study by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) highlights that the transformation to a greener economy could generate 15 to 60 million additional jobs globally over ...
- Integrating safety, health and social equity into a green economy
- International Labour Organization, 2012
- The two major challenges that define the 21st century are averting climate change and the deterioration of natural resources, and ensuring sustainable development based on economic growth, social equity and environmental protection. B...
- Gender-based violence in the world of work: overview and selected annotated bibliography
- A Cruz / International Labour Organization, 2011
- This tool aims to contribute to policy development at national level, especially with entry points for responses and prevention of gender-based violence in the world of work.
- ILO Participatory Gender Audit: relevance and use for the United Nations and its agencies
- International Labour Organization, 2012
- The ILO has designed a tool – the Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) – that lends itself particularly well to providing a comprehensive picture of any given organization’s progress in gender mainstreaming. This publicatio...
- Protecting the poor: a microinsurance compendium Vol. II
- C. Churchill / International Labour Organization, 2012
- The second volume of 'Microinsurance Compendium, Protecting the Poor' highlights that the number of microinsured people has reached almost 500 million. The report emphasises the role of microinsurance in poverty alleviation when combi...
- Global economic crisis, gender and employment: the impact and policy response
- N. Otobe / International Labour Organization, 2011
- The paper analyses the gender dimensions of the impact of the global economic crisis on the world of work, highlighting the overall higher vulnerabilities and insecurity of women’s work than men’s. It analyses the gender dif...
- Policy brief 11: mainstreaming gender equality concerns in Palestinian TVET system
- International Labour Organization, 2012
- This policy brief presents the summary of an assessment1 by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS). It highlights the ove...
