March 2009

1. Gender and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty

   31 March - 2 April 2009

2. Second national seminar of the monitoring Committee of the national Pact to eradicate slave labour

   18 March 2009

   The seminar will gather employers and companies signatories of the National Pact. The results of a new study on Supply Chain will be presented and some good practices will be presented. The Code of conduct of the National Pact will be given to participants.

3. 

   ILO celebrates International Women's Day

   8 March 2009

   Work and family: The way to care is to share!

4. Tripartite Technical Workshop on the Impact of the Food Price Crisis on Decent Work

   5 - 26 March 2009

February 2009

1. Global Dialogue Forum on the impact of the financial crisis on finance sector workers

   24 - 25 February 2009

2. Global Dialogue Forum on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Finance Sector Workers

   24 - 25 February 2009

3. Human trafficking, turning our attention to labour exploitation

   13 February 2009

   Conference organized by the Science Shop of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University and the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings

4. 

   8th European Regional Meeting

   9 - 13 February 2009

   The 8th European Regional Meeting (ERM) will provide the space for governments and worker and employer organisations, from across Europe and Central Asia, to come together and shape the ILO's future strategy in the European and Central Asian member countries of the ILO. There will also be a high level panel discussion with Prime Ministers from several European countries and representatives from worker and employer organisations.

5. Seminar for Labour inspectors on Forced Labour and Human Trafficking

   2 - 3 February 2009

   The ILO and the General Labour Inspectorate Portugal (ACT) are jointly organising a seminar for Portuguese labour inspectors on investigating forced labour in Lisbon on 2-3 February 2009. The workshop will bring together 30 Portuguese labour inspectors from regional branches international experts. The objectives of the seminar are to share experience in the fields of investigating forced labour, identification of victims of trafficking for forced labour and cooperation between law enforcement agencies, to test training modules of the ILO handbook on human trafficking and forced labour for labour inspectors in working groups, and to discuss and develop recommendations for the adaptation of the to the national context in Portugal.

December 2008

1. Seminar on ‘Employment and unemployment: Revisiting the relevance and conceptual basis of the statistics’

   4 - 5 December 2008

   This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of the Resolution.