International Labour Office (ILO)

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• The contribution of migrant organisations to income-generating activities in their countries of origin

  3 September 2008
  Of all aspects of international migration, remittances are the least controversial. Labour-receiving countries welcome and encourage them, since they signal a continuing attachment of the migrant worker to the country of origin, and possibly a disposition to eventually return home. Moreover, remittances tend be perceived as a substitute for aid. In this logic any increase in volume reduces the pressure to increase ODA. Labour-sending countries for their part welcome remittances as an important source of foreign exchange.

• Organizing for social justice

  29 April 2008
  The document is a Global Report of the ILO about the fundamental principle of freedom association and the right to collective bargaining. It shows evolutions in the field of international union organizing. The ILO finds that a right-based labour market is also a condition of dynamic economies.

• Equality at work

  29 April 2008
  This recent ILO report (2007) takes the workplace as a strategic entry point, in order to understand discrimination in several forms (race, gender, age, skill, etc.). The document gives a global overview of all relevant aspects. It underlines the legal and conventional progress concerning the non-discrimination measures, which includes the EU : In the past years 2000 Directives regulating discrimination in employement have been adopted.

• Social security for all : Investing in a global social and economic developement

  7 April 2008
  The paper persents a global analysis of social insecurity of workers and migrants all around the world and it defines, at the opposite, social security as a Human Right.

• Implementation of decent work country programmes

  26 November 2007
  The report explains the strategy of the ILO, intending to integrate social protection goals and policies into decent work programmes in Europe and around the World. It demonstrates the important contribution of social protection to decent work policies in a globalizing world.