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20 February 2010 - 20 February 2011

Voices on Social Justice

Each year, World Day for Social Justice draws global attention to efforts to eradicate poverty and promote social well-being, equality and full and decent employment. In 2010 this search for a "society for all" faces severe challenges brought on by the global economic and jobs crises, resurging poverty and long-term social uncertainty. Against this backdrop, the ILO has launched a year-long Voices on Social Justice Campaign to provide a global platform for perspectives on what social justice means today and how it might be achieved in the years to come. The following voices will be joined by those of other commentators, academics, activists and leaders throughout the year.

Ongoing and upcoming

  • 22 March 2010, Geneva, ILO headquarters
    Overcoming the Jobs Crisis: what do we know about experiences that work?
    - Following the Working Party on the Social Dimension of Globalization of the ILO Governing Body, a seminar organized by the International Institute for Labour Studies (IILS) will debate policies which provide the most effective way out of the jobs crisis and draw lessons with regard to the implementation of the Global Jobs Pact. (Seminar)
  • 24 March 2010, Room II, 18.30
    Lecture on "The Declaration of Philadelphia Today"
    - Members of the Governing Body and ILO staff are invited to a lecture by Professor Alain Supiot, Director of the Nantes Institute for Advance Studies. Professor Supiot will talk of the relevance that the Declaration of Philadelphia holds today, and why it remains a powerful text in the pursuit of social justice. Interpretation will be provided into English, French and Spanish. (Presentation)
  • 10-11 May 2010, The Hague, The Netherlands
    Global Child Labour Conference, The Hague, 10-11 May 2010
    - The year 2010 is 10 years after the coming into force of ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL). Efforts must be stepped up if we are to deliver the commitment of a world free of the WFCL by 2016. In order to meet that challenge, the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, in close collaboration with the ILO (and UNICEF and World Bank), is organizing a global conference on child labour to be held in The Hague (The Netherlands) on 10 and 11 May 2010. (Conference)
  • 12-15 October 2010, Bangkok, Thailand
    Fifteenth Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting
    - Every four years, the ILO Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) brings together the constituents from (33) countries in Asia and the Pacific and (12) Arab States and Territories in West Asia. (Conference)

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