I-news

2009 

• Timor-Leste ratifies first ILO Conventions
  16 June 2009 - Timor-Leste has ratified four conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), concerning forced labour, freedom of association and protection of the right to organize, the right to organize and collective bargaining, and the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
• Labour Organization Journalistic Prize awarded to Jessie Ngoma-Simengwa for her article on risking life at a Zambian copper mine
  12 June 2009 - "Plight of a Zambian mine accident victim", the article that won the 2009 “Media for Labour Rights” journalistic prize awarded by the ILO to Jessie Ngoma-Simengwa
• ILO and UNDP: First report on work and the family in Latin America and the Caribbean – Tensions between family and labour life entail high costs for more than 100 million women integrating the region’s workforce
  11 June 2009 - The massive and irreversible inclusion of Latin American and Caribbean women in the workforce has highlighted the challenges of traditional interplay between work and family life. ...