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Held during the 110th International Labour Conference, the Summit aims to discuss the urgent action that can be taken by the ILO and its Member States to tackle the labour and social consequences of the multiple crises in the world through human-centred approaches for peace, resilience, and inclusive development, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable.

Event concept note

Website of the 110th International Labour Conference

The International Labour Conference (ILC) sets the international labour standards and the broad policies of the ILO. It meets annually in Geneva. Often called an international parliament of labour, the Conference is also a forum for discussion of key social and labour questions. Each member State is represented by government's, employers' and workers' delegates. This year, occupational safety and health, apprenticeships, as well as the social and solidarity economy are among the items on the agenda of the Conference.

The opening sitting of the 110th International Labour Conference will elect the Conference President and Vice-Presidents, adopt the operational arrangements for the conduct of the Conference and the constitution of committees. It will also hear the opening addresses of the President of the Conference, the Employers’ group and Workers’ Group Chairpersons as well as the opening statement by the ILO Director-General and the presentation by the Chairperson of the Governing Body of her report.  

Geneva

Opening of the 110th International Labour Conference

High-level event organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) during the 110th Session of the International Labour Conference, with the support of Alliance 8.7 and the Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection (USP2030). The discussion will focus on the ILO/UNICEF report on social protection and child labour, released at the 5th Global Conference on Child Labour in May 2022. This report demonstrates that a majority of studies on the links between social protection and child labour have identified a child labour reduction effect.

World Day Against Child Labour: High-level Discussion on Universal Social Protection to End Child Labour

Discussion of the Reports of the Director-General and of the Chairperson of the Governing Body. 

Plenary debates – Morning sitting

Discussion of the Reports of the Director-General and of the Chairperson of the Governing Body.

Plenary debates – Afternoon sitting

Discussion of the Reports of the ILO Director-General and of the Chairperson of the ILO Governing Body.

World of Work Summit: Tackling multiple global crises, promoting human-centred recovery and resilience

The Conference will approve the reports of the General Affairs Committee, the General Discussion on Social and Solidarity Economy and the Credentials Committee. 

Adoption of Committee reports

Adoption of the reports of the Committee on Apprenticeships and the Committee on the Application of Standards.

Adoption of the Report of  the Recurrent Discussion Committee on Employment.
Closing ceremony.

Closing of the 110th International Labour Conference

Davos

Switzerland

ILO Headquarters

110th International Labour Conference

Belgium

Pierre-Yves Dermagne

Panellists

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Employment

India

Bhupender Yadav

Minister of Labour and Employment

Isabelle Durant

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Deputy Secretary-General

Algeria

Saida Neghza

President, Confédération Générale des Entreprises Algériennes

Somalia

Omar Faruk Osman Nur

General Secretary, Federation of Somali Trade Unions

Foni Joyce Vuni

Research Lead at the Refugee-Led Research Hub, Kenya

Sharanjit Leyl

Moderator

Journalist

Seychelles

Wavel Ramkalawan

Addresses by Heads of State

President of the Republic

Honduras

Xiomara Castro Sarmiento

Guy Ryder

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Conversation between:

Director-General

Danny McCoy

CEO, Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC)

Netherlands

Catelene Passchier

Chairperson, ILO Workers’ group

Panel discussion

Address by the President of the Republic of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan

Address by the President of the Republic of Honduras, Xiomara Castro Sarmiento

Conversation: Guy Ryder, Catelene Passchier, Danny McCoy 

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Green jobs and Decent work in Mongolia

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The COVID-19 pandemic confirmed the vital role social protection plays against both systemic shocks and ordinary life-cycle risks. As the world enters a period of multiple and interconnected crises, in which poverty and inequalities are increasing alarmingly, can social protection take on the greater task of supporting fundamental human rights? ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, discuss how this might be done.

How can social protection support human rights and advance social justice?

Volker Türk

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Gilbert F. Houngbo

The ILO will also lead a side event on the 16th of March “Addressing the gender pay gap in the digital economy: an EPIC side event”. Hosted by the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC), this event will be an opportunity to amplify interest in innovative and practical solutions and in promising global initiatives to reduce the gender pay gap with attention to the digital economy. Special guests will engage in an interactive discussion to advance equal pay for work of equal value globally and take tailored action at the country level.

New York City

EPIC Side Event: Addressing the Gender pay gap in the Digital Economy

Online violence and harassment have been receiving increased attention in recent legislative reforms either as a separate or standalone notion or as a means through which violence and harassment can be perpetrated, including in the world of work. Led by the ILO, this event aims to facilitate knowledge exchange through the sharing of good practices, including legislation and measures at the workplace level. It will open the discussion for the use of technology to prevent violence and harassment in the world of work, including mitigating the effects of domestic violence.&nbsp;

Online and ICT-facilitated violence and harassment at work: Resetting the system 

As the historic UN Water Conference opens in New York, we find out why poor water and sanitation is holding back economies and societies. And, as it's now been three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ILO World of Work Show explores why women were and continue to be disproportionately affected by the crisis.

The high stakes of water and work

The high-level opening of the development partners meeting of the global flagship programme on building social protection floors for all takes stock of the progress and results achieved by the ILO's Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All, and remaining challenges for the multi-donor programme.

Social protection floors for all: Progress and challenges

Development partners meeting of the global flagship programme on building social protection floors for all 

The first panel of the development partners meeting of the global flagship programme on building social protection floors for all highlights the key thematic areas, including social health protection and extending social protection to workers in the informal economy, tackled within the countries that are part of the initial multi-donor Programme.

Joining forces to address thematic challenges within social protection 

Ecological, technological, and demographic transformations present challenges and opportunities for countries at all levels of development. This panel highlights how integrated policy approaches can facilitate structural transformations, close financing gaps and expand social protection coverage, including through the Global Accelerator for Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions.

Integrated policy and financing approaches on decent jobs and social protection for just transitions

The ILO has elaborated a strategy for the implementation of the Global Ratification Campaign with a view to support constituents to achieve the effective realization of the right to social security.&nbsp; This panel presents the importance of building national social protection systems in line with ILO social security standards, and how development partners can support the Global Ratification Campaign of the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102).

Mobilizing the potential of ratifying ILO standards to accelerate progress towards Universal Social Protection 

As climate change disproportionately affects marginalized, poor and vulnerable communities, aggravating inequalities within and between countries, this event will discuss how Public Development Banks can help build a comprehensive social agenda, to support a strong and just transition, while ensuring no one is left behind in moving towards a low-carbon economy.&nbsp;

Organized by the Finance in Common Coalition for Social Investment (FiCS) with the participation of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), this event will: 
•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Advocate for the critical and urgent need to advance social justice – including job creation, skilling, decent work and social protection – as a central pillar to achieve a strong sustainability and climate transition agenda and strong societies; 
•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Share the perspectives from clients/beneficiary countries;&nbsp; 
•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Promote concrete, inspiring projects by FiCS members that deliver impactful results toward the social agenda; 
•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Underline the need to continue developing research and new data to better measure the social impacts of PDBs’ supported operations, and align more systematically with the Sustainable Development Goals &amp; Paris Agreement.

Paris

Leveraging Public Development Banks for resilient communities: Towards social justice and just climate transitions

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World of Work Summit: Tackling multiple global crises, promoting human-centred recovery and resilience

Key moments

Panellists

Moderator

Addresses by Heads of State

Conversation between:

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