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International Labour Organization (ILO)

Governing Body

353rd Session of the Governing Body | 10-20 March 2025
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International Labour Conference

113th Session of the ILC, 2 - 13 June 2025
At the 2025 session of the Conference, Government, employer and worker delegates from the ILO's 187 Member States will address important world of work matters such as possible new international standards on the protection of workers against biological hazards in the working environment, decent work in the platform economy and innovative approaches to promoting transitions from the informal to the formal economy.
Reports submitted to the 113th Session
Agenda of the 113th Session
112th session (3-14 June 2024)
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ILO Meetings

Programme of ILO official meetings
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Ongoing and forthcoming meetings and events
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Regional meetings
The 20th American Regional Meeting will be held in the Dominican Republic in October 2025.
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ILO News Room

Publications

World employment and social outlook: Trends 2025
The WESO Trends 2025 report provides an in-depth analysis of global labour market trends, highlighting the impacts of slowing economic recovery, persistent youth unemployment, and gender disparities.
Published 16 January 2025
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It examines the structural challenges facing workers worldwide and offers insights into regional and global patterns shaping the future of work.
Ensuring safety and health at work in a changing climate
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Climate change creates a ‘cocktail’ of serious health hazards for 70 per cent of the world’s workers, ILO report finds .
Published 22 April 2024

Past Events and Meetings

Technical meeting on the promotion of decent work and a just transition, including skills and lifelong learning, in the food and beverages industry | 27-31 January 2025
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UN, NGOs and Media reporting on

US abstains from ILO vote on Ukraine war, breaking ranks with allies
Geneva Solutions, 18 March 2025
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The US’s silence at a bid by Moscow to downplay its role in its war against Ukraine at a UN labour meeting speaks volumes.

ILO warns of climate strains on workers as corporations drop ESG goals
Geneva Solutions, 16 January 2025
Days before the business elite descends on Davos, the United Nations labour agency says climate change presents both threats and opportunities as corporations lose their appetite for sustainability goals.

Tariffs: Job protectors or trade killers?
UN News, 28 March 2025
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The word “tariff” has been catapulted from the business pages to the headlines over the last few months, as major economies impose or threaten them on other nations. But tariffs are not just a blunt weapon to be used in geopolitical brinkmanship: they can, if used effectively, help poorer countries develop their economies.

Global education must integrate AI, centred on humanity
UN News, 24 January 2025
Marking the International Day of Education, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasized learning as a basic human right and foundation for individual and societal growth.

L’égalité des genres en matière d’emploi prendrait près de deux siècles, selon l’OIT
Nouvelles de l'OIT, le 4 mars 2025
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Trente ans après l’adoption de la Déclaration et du Programme d’action de Pékin, qui visaient un agenda ambitieux pour l’égalité, les femmes continuent de faire face à d’importants obstacles économiques, selon une nouvelle note de l’Organisation internationale du Travail.

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

#ImagineEquality: Unlocking the Power of Imagination to Shape a Better World
"If we want a more just, fair and sustainable world, we must first imagine it."
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Labour and Human Rights

Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights
View all documents and information related to the previous meetings (1st session in 2015 and last session in 2024).
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At its 26th session, on 26 June 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 26/9 by which it decided “to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.”

Conference primer - Labour and Social Affairs: 2025

Highlights

353rd Session of
the Governing Body
10 - 20 March 2025

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

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International Labour Conference

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Labour and Human Rights

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Conference primer - Labour and Social Affairs: 2025

Highlights

353rd Session ofthe Governing Body 10 - 20 March 2025

Library Impact Survey

ON THIS PAGE

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Governing Body

International Labour Conference

ILO Meetings

Publications

Past Events and Meetings

UN, NGOs and Media reporting on

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Labour and Human Rights

More on Labour and Social Affairs

DISCLAIMER: This site contains links and references to third-party resources. It does not imply the endorsement of the content by the United Nations.

353rd Session of
the Governing Body
10 - 20 March 2025