Caribbean Industrial Dispute Settlement Systems come under review at ILO regional meeting (posted 17 November/03)

OCTOBER 2003

Jamaica ratifies Worst Forms of Child Labour and Minimum Age ILO Conventions (posted 20 October/03)

ILO hosts management workshop for National Employers' Organizations (posted 17 October/03)

SEPTEMBER 2003

Strategic Vision and new developments high on agenda for ILO's Caribbean Labour Administrators meeting (posted 4 September/03)

AUGUST 2003

Heads of Labour Colleges to discuss training modules on management-labour cooperation (posted 4 August/03)

JULY 2003

Business website for Caribbean women entrepreneurs to be launched at ILO meeting (posted 19 July/03)

JUNE 2003

91st Annual Conference of the ILO concludes its work
Delegates debate action to end poverty through work, adopt Convention on seafarers security measures (posted 24 June/03)

Speeches by Caribbean Delegates at the 2003 International Labour Conference (posted 24 June/03)

ILO Launches global campaign on social security for all (posted 24 June/03)

ILO to mark World Day Against Child Labour on June 12 (posted: 11 June/03)

Working out of poverty - Somavia presents new anti-poverty proposals to ILO Annual Conference (posted: 9 June/03)

ILO Conference opens talks on New Seafarer Identity Cards Initiative receives new impetus from G8 (posted: 9 June/03)

91st Session of ILC (posted: 2 June/03)

MAY 2003

Chief civil service negotiators to meet on employment and collective bargaining in the civil service (posted: 21 May/03)

ILO launches first report on discrimination at work. (posted: 12 May/03)

APRIL 2003

ILO observe World Day for Safety and Health at Work on April 28 (posted: 24 April/03)

ILO mourns death in Beijing of senior official (posted: 7 April/03)

Making globalization more inclusive - ILO and Government of Barbados host Caribbean consultation on globalization (posted: 2 April/03)

Statement on consequences of the Iraq conflict and response by the ILO (posted: 2 April/03)

MARCH 2003

Juan Somavia elected to second term as ILO Director-General pledges to work for a "New social contract" (posted: 26 March/03)

FEBRUARY 2003

Governments, business and labour encouraged to forge partnerships for global competition (posted: 5 February/03)

JANUARY 2003

Travel woes, economic downturn cost millions of jobs in world tourism (posted: 30 January/03)

New ILO Report on Global Employment Trends 2003: World unemployment rate continues to rise, reaching a new high of 180 Million (posted: 24 January/03)

New ILO Director appointed for Caribbean Office (posted: 17 January/03)

ILO's Second Caribbean Enterprise Forum to reveal innovative strategies for enterprise competitiveness (posted: 15 January/03)