Convention and Recommendation concerning the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work/ Convention et recommandation concernant l’élimination de la violence et du harcèlement dans le monde du travail/ Convenio y recomendacion sobre la eliminación de la violencia y el acoso en el mundo del trabajo

English:  https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_711140.pdf Francias: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_711138.pdf Espanol: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_711139.pdf

UN experts urge ILO to back safe and healthy work conditions as a ‘fundamental’ right

UN experts today urged the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to immediately recognise and adopt safe and healthy working conditions as one of its fundamental principles and rights at work. “Millions of …

ILO, Address to the Seoul Bar Association on Core Labor Standards

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The heads of the eight United Nations organizations constituting the Executive Committee of the UN Network on Migration have established the Start-up Fund for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the …

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The eighth Conference of Parties to the Rotterdam Convention, a United Nations treaty that requires dangerous substances listed by the Convention to be traded only with prior informed consent, is …

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Ending violence and harassment in the world of work – “ILO Blue Report”

The report contains the English and French versions of the proposed texts of the Convention and Recommendation, as amended in light of the replies received, and for the reasons given …

World Bank: WOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW 2019

In 2019, the World Bank published Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform, which examines ten years of data through an index structured around the economic decisions …

JAM ET AL. v. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORP.

The US Supreme Court found that the International Organizations Immunities Act granted international organizations the “same immunity” from suit “as is enjoyed by foreign governments”. That means that the Foreign …

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against World Bank Arm on Immunity

The U.S. Supreme Court opened some American-based international organizations to lawsuits, ruling that a World Bank affiliate must defend against allegations it is responsible for environmental damage caused by a …

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