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	International Labour Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations to deal with labour issues.
		Historically, one of the functions the ILO has performed has been the establishment of international standards for workers' conditions, which have then become the basis for trade union and other activism in individual countries.
		The ILO has a specialist programme addressing child labour, the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Labor_Organization (588 words)

	International Labor Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mission: "The ILO formulates international labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues.
		ILO’s Director General announced that the US Department of Labor will be committing $13 million to support social and economic reconstruction, poverty eradication legislation, and employment and education policies, which according to the ILO are all vital to ending the crisis of child soldiers, “the worst form of child labor.
		ILO has launched a campaign to encourage all countries to supply social security programs for all of their citizens, claiming that it will further human security, dignity, equity and social justice, as well as provide a foundation for political inclusion, empowerment and the development of democracy.
	www.ngowatch.org /ilo.htm (212 words)

	AllRefer.com - International Labor Organization, UN (United Nations) - Encyclopedia
		Promotion of international accord on such matters as regulation of hours of work, provision of adequate wages, protection of workers against occupational disease and injury, and protection of women and children and those who work outside their own countries accounts for much of its activities.
		The ILO consists of a general conference of representatives of the members (4 from each member state), a governing body of 56 people (28 representing governments, 14 employers, and 14 labor), and an International Labor Office controlled by the governing body.
		The ILO is financed by contributions from member states; 175 countries belong to the organization.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/IntlLabo.html (408 words)

	International Labor Organization Report: Child Labor Soars in African Continent
		A report prepared by the International Labor Organization entitled: "Child Labour in Africa—Targeting the Intolerable" estimates that at the current rate of increase the number of child laborers in the world's poorest continent will swell from 80 million to over 100 million by the year 2015.
		The largest concentrations of child laborers are found in nations located in sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of people living in poverty rose by 20 percent between 1988 and 1993 according to a recent report by the World Bank.
		Joint conferences are being organized by the Organization of African Unity to discuss measures to reduce child labor.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/feb1998/ilo.shtml (509 words)

	Monthly Labor Review: The future of ILO standards. (International Lab... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ILO's mission, as designed by its founders, was to parallel that of the League of Nations: the League was to keep the physical peace, the ILO was to keep the social peace by adopting standards that would improve the situation of workers.
		The ILO remains a standard-setting organization, as it was conceived to be in 1919.
		ILO policy now states that all of its activities--research, technical cooperation, and policy advice--must have as their principal objective the promotion of the values contained in the Constitutions and the standards adopted by the constituents.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15830089&refid=holomed_1 (5453 words)

	International Labor Organization Overview
		The International Labor Organization/Bureau International du Travail (ILO/BIT) was established in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference as an international organization working in cooperation with the League of Nations.
		In terms of administrative organization, the ILO/BIT included a general Conference (which met a least one time every year between 1919 and 1939) and the International Labor Office, which served as the secretariat of the organization under the control of the Governing Body.
		The Governing Body of the International Labor Office numbered 24 members (twelve government, six employer, and six worker representatives) until June 4, 1934; the body was then increased to 32 members (sixteen government, eight employer, and eight worker delegates).
	www.indiana.edu /~league/ilooverview.htm (536 words)

	International Labor Organization to Send High-Level Mission to Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The International Labor Organization says it fears Burmese authorities have lost interest in combating forced labor since the recent changes in the make-up of the government.
		ILO Liaison Officer, Richard Horsey, says the organization is hoping to send a high level team to Burma to see if the authorities are serious about ending forced labor.
		But, he warns, the ILO is ready to implement a series of tough measures adopted in 2000 if the government in Burma, which is also known as Myanmar, refuse to cooperate.
	www.voanews.com /english/International-Labor-Organization-to-Send-High-Level-Mission-to-Burma.cfm (564 words)

	International Labor Organization
		WASHINGTON - October 1 - The International Labor Organization (ILO) has welcomed the agreement between two members of the U.S. Congress and representatives of the world chocolate industry to eliminate child slavery on West African cocoa plantations and end the worst forms of child labor in the global cocoa-chocolate sector.
		The ILO, the International Union of Food and Allied Workers (IUF), the anti-slavery group "Free the Slaves" and the National Consumers League (NCL) were initial members of an advisory group that participated in the agreement.
		IPEC is also working with the U.S. Department of Labor and local partners to conduct community surveys to assess the extent and nature of child labor in cocoa growing in the Ivory Coast, said Tony Freeman, director of the ILO Washington Branch Office.
	www.commondreams.org /news2001/1001-02.htm (510 words)

	stopVAW -- International Labor Organization
		The International Labor Organization (ILO) is a specialized U.N. agency which "seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights." The ILO, together with its Member States, sets standards in the form of binding conventions and non-binding recommendations.
		The ILO Convention No. 155 (Occupational and Health), as amended by the 2002 Protocol, and the ILO Convention No. 161 (Occupational Health Services) require states which are parties to the conventions to take certain actions to prevent sexual harassment because such conduct may be harmful to the physical and mental health of its workers.
		The General Conference of the International Labor Organization has issued Recommendation No. 164 which specifies particular strategies for minimizing hazards in the work environment as required under the Convention 155 which may be helpful to policy makers addressing the problem of sexual harassment.
	stopvaw2.extranet.urbanplanet.com /International_Labor_Organization2.html (569 words)

	International Labor Organization
		The International Labor Organization (ILO) was founded in 1919 by an international group of governments, employers, and trade unions seeking to improve living and working conditions worldwide.
		Originally part of the League of Nations, ILO is now a specialized agency of the United Nations (see separate entry) and has over 170 member countries.
		ILO activities involve setting international labor standards, providing vocational and management training, and researching workplace issues, such as women's rights and the freedom to organize.
	www.angelfire.com /mt/internships/35.htm (501 words)

	News Release: International Labor Organization and World Trade Organization Need to Strengthen International Labor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The authors recommend that the ILO retain the central role for promoting and enforcing labor standards and that it receive increased political and financial support to do so as long as it demonstrates that it is effective.
		Ensuring that globalization and labor standards are complementary also means responding to the market distortions created when governments—by law or by looking the other way—repress standards with the goal of increasing exports or attracting foreign investment.
		She served on the National Academies Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards in 2002-03 and, in 1999, as chair of the Task Force on Civil Society of the State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.
	www.iie.com /publications/newsreleases/elliott-freeman.htm (1431 words)

	REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE
		The ILO, as the Director General said, was created in the wake of the devastation of World War I as part of a vision to provide stability to a world recovering from war, a vision put forward by our President, Woodrow Wilson.
		And the international organizations charged with monitoring and providing for rules of fair trade, and enforcement of them, seem to take a very long time to work their way to the right decision, often too late to affect the people who have been disadvantaged.
		By giving life to core labor standards, by acting effectively to lift the burden of debt, by putting a more human face on the world trading system and the global economy, by ending the worst forms of child labor, we will be giving our children the 21st century they deserve.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a376808790e9c.htm (3545 words)

	The International Labor Organization (ILO) (from labor and industrial law) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The purpose of the ILO is to formulate international standards for the betterment of working and living conditions.
		Examples of the types of issues regulated by labor and industrial law are: hours of labor, child labor, minimum wage, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, worker safety and health, disability compensation, the rights of collective bargaining...
		The term labor movement is often applied to any organization or association of wage earners who join together to advance their common interests.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=203545 (944 words)

	International Labor Organization
		Invigorating enforcement mechanisms of the International Labor Organization in pursuit of U.S. labor objectives.
		International Labor Standards in the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization.
		Labor standards in the context of a global economy.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0825348.html (394 words)

	3/18/2003 Press Release -- Congress Urges Chao to Support International Labor Organization Monitoring on Mariana Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The use of the ILO as a monitoring body to oversee compliance with the settlement terms is supported by the class of 30,000 garment workers, UNITE, a coalition of human rights groups, 26 factory owners and 25 mainland retailers, as well as the Governor of the CNMI.
		Use of the ILO is one of the few issues this diverse group of manufacturers and retailers and others could agree on in over a decade of furious battling.
		We are writing to solicit the support of the U.S. Department of Labor for the use of the International Labor Organization (ILO) as the monitoring body for the recently approved settlement involving garment manufacturers in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("US-CNMI").
	edworkforce.house.gov /democrats/rel31803b.html (1305 words)

	MunucWiki - International Labor Organization
		The ILO is one of the most unique committees that will be simulated at MUNUX XVII because rather than simply representing a single national policy, the ILO meets and debates topics through a tripartite system of representation.
		Currently, the ILO is advocating a global campaign to establish social security in nations that have no form of social insurance as well as to strengthen programs in nations that have existing systems of social security.
		While the ILO has already taken many steps in initiating social security programs, much still needs to be done to address global population trends and the positive impact social insurance has on the health of citizens.
	www.munuc.org /munucwiki/InternationalLaborOrganization (795 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Child Labor
		The International Labor Organization (ILO) has estimated that 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen work in developing countries-at least 120 million on a full time basis.
		In some cases, the labor is generational-that is, a child's grandfather or great-grandfather was promised to an employer many years earlier, with the understanding that each generation would provide the employer with a new worker-often with no pay at all.
		Bonded labor is outlawed by the 1956 U.N. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery.
	www.hrw.org /children/labor.htm (1144 words)

	International Labor Organization (ILO) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ILO, created in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles, was affiliated with the League of Nations until 1945.
		The ILO seeks to improve labor conditions, promote a higher standard of living, and further social justice.
		Promotion of international accord on such matters as regulation of hours of work, provision of adequate wages, protection of workers against occupational disease and injury, and protection of women and children and those who work abroad accounts for much of its activities.
	www.eranova.ch /glossary2/ILO.htm (140 words)

	Scientology: Scientolodists Appeal to International Labor Organization
		The Church of Scientology International is asking the International Labor Organization (ILO), Director-General Michel Hansenne, to examine evidence that Germany has failed to comply with the ILO’s Convention No. 111 concerning Employment and Occupation Discrimination.
		In May 1995, German Minister of Labor Norbert Bluem authored an article that appeared in a national German publication advocating that private companies and schools join in a "war" against Scientology and "use all available means" to "unveil" members of the Church who might keep their religious belief to themselves.
		The ILO, which has been closely identified with the promotion and protection of human rights, approved in 1995 the prevention of discrimination as one of its three primary fundamental human rights concerns and has repeatedly affirmed freedom of religion and conscience in its international agreements.
	www.scientology.org /p_jpg/scnnews/hatewach/appeal.htm (387 words)

	US CODE: Title 22,271. International Labor Organization; membership
		The reasons for acceptance of the Constitution of the Organization by the United States is set forth in the preliminary clauses of act June 30, 1948, ch.
		The members will be the Secretaries of Labor, State, and Commerce, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Presidents of the AFL–CIO and the United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, or their designated representatives.
		The Chairman of the Committee shall be the Secretary of Labor.
	www.law.cornell.edu /uscode/uscode22/usc_sec_22_00000271----000-notes.html (1268 words)

	International Labor Organization C138 minimum age convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Each Member for which this Convention is in force undertakes to pursue a national policy designed to ensure the effective abolition of child labor and to raise progressively the minimum age for admission to employment or work to a level consistent with the fullest physical and mental development of young persons.
		The Director-General of the International Labour office shall notify all Mem bers of the International Labour Organisation of the registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated to him by the Members of the Organisation.
		The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all ratifications and acts of denunciation registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Articles.
	www.apparelsearch.com /Education/Research/Child_Labor_Fashion_Industry_2005/V_Apparel_Appendices/ILO_Convention_138.htm (1631 words)

	Labor Rift Widens At WTO Summit / Some diplomats protest pact to protect children
		The labor issue has become perhaps the most acrimonious issue at the WTO summit meeting, where deep divisions on a wide variety of topics point to increased international discord about the rules of the global economy.
		The treaty Clinton signed yesterday -- Convention 182 of the International Labor Organization, a U.N.-linked agency -- bans crimes of child servitude that are already illegal in the United States and nearly all other nations: slavery, prostitution, pornography, drug trafficking and dangerous work.
		The pact is a watered-down version of a separate International Labor Organization measure, Convention 138, which bans most labor by children under age 18.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/12/03/MN106262.DTL (950 words)

	United Press International - Business(p) - ILO: Workers put in more hours than ever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to the Geneva-based organization's Key Indicators of the Labor Market released Labor Day Monday, U.S. workers put in an average of 1,825 hours in 2002, compared to between 1,300 and 1,800 in leading European nations.
		That's nearly double the growth rate of 1.2 percent in the European Union and 1.1 percent in Japan during the same period.
		This is a typical sign for developing economies as they often compensate for the lack of technology and capital with people working longer hours," the ILO stated.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030829-040252-8643r (888 words)

	ILO - InFocus Programme on Child Labour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour: IPEC
		By ratifying ILO Convention No. 182, the countries commit themselves to take immediate action to prohibit and eliminate the worst forms of child labour.
		In parallel, ILO Convention No.138, setting forth a larger framework for the longer-term objective of the effective abolition of child labour, has also been receiving a surge in ratifications.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/standards/ipec (260 words)

	International Labor Organization
		At the same time a wide range of other organizations-government and non-governmental bodies-have "greatly expanded the reach and effectiveness of their operations in the struggle against child labor." But, "with tens of millions of children caught up in the worst forms of child labor, the challenge remains enormous," he adds.
		The U.S. Department of Labor is providing $4.3 million through the ILO to combat the trafficking of children for labor exploitation in West and Central Africa.
		IPEC is a technical assistance program of the International Labor Organization, the United Nations specialized agency on work where two years ago members adopted an international convention on the worst forms of child labor, covering all types of slavery, prostitution, pornography, other illicit activities, and hazardous work.
	www.commondreams.org /news2001/0508-08.htm (493 words)

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