Sailing into the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, ILO Director of the International Labour Standards Department It was a few hours before the official coming into force of the ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention, 2006. We were...
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Marco Minocri, ILO Communications Officer We had arrived in China at just about the same time as Typhoon Utor. Which was a bit of a problem, since our cameraman Damien Riunaud and I had travelled to...
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Kuanruthai Siripatthanakol, National Project Coordinator (Thailand), GMS TRIANGLE Project In an icy cold room in the fishing port of Samut Sakhon, a labour inspector reads over the payroll ledger of a...
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Martin Murphy, ILO Director of Communications and Public Information (a.i). @martinmurphyilo As part of our coverage of the 105th Session of the International Labour Conference, we sat down with...
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