ILO Bureau for Workers

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ILO Bureau for Workers Activities - Turin

• ETUI Project Management Course
• Turin 10 November 2005

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ILO Tripartite Structure

• ILOs mission promotion of social justice and
  internationally recognized human and labour
  rights
• ILO is governed jointly by
• Governments
• Employers
• Workers

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ILO Instruments

• ILO formulates international labour standards in
  the form of Conventions and Recommendations
  setting minimum standards of basic labour rights
  
• freedom of association,
• the right to organize, and collective bargaining,
  
• abolition of forced labour,
• equality of opportunity and treatment,
• abolotion of child labour
• and other standards

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Workers and Employers

• ILO promotes the development of independent
  employers' and workers' organizations and
  provides training and advisory services to those
  organizations

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ACTRAVs focus

• Promotion of the development of independent
  workers' organizations and providing training and
  advisory services to those organizations

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ACTRAV Education Staff

• Field
• Education Advisers (Africa, Asia, Latin America
  and Carribean)
• Project Staff
• ITC Turin
• Education Staff (Africa, Asia, Latin America and
  Europe)
• Information Technology for Trade Unions

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Activities in 2004

• Total
• 53 training activities
• 962 participants from
• 150 member countries
• 41 women participants
• Africa 11 activities, including 1 course in
  Arabic)
• Asia 11 activities
• Latin America 14 activities
• Europe 17 activities

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Training Subjects

• International labour standards and workers'
  rights
• Policies for decent employment
• Social protection, with a specific focus on
  social security and occupational safety, health
  and the environment
• Social dialogue, with an emphasis on collective
  bargaining and labour relations
• Gender mainstreaming and women workers' rights
• Training methodology, distance education and the
  use of information technology

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Information Technology for Trade Unions

• Information technology training during
  residential courses
• Establishment of SoliComm email, web hosting,
  conferencing, e-library
• Distance education courses and workshops (12 in
  2004)
• Use of information technology for pre- and
  post-course activities

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Workers participants in all activities in Turin
and field
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Participants in ACTRAV activities in Turin and
the field