International Labour Organization (ILO)
| Name: | International Labour Organization |
| Abbreviation: | ILO |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.ilo.org/ |
| Country: | Switzerland |
Mandate
- Improve through the adoption of international labour conventions and recommendations setting minimum standards in such fields as wages, hours of work and conditions of employment, and social security.
- Social and labour aspects of forestry (employment and income, working conditions and safety, training, etc.) as well as the wood and pulp and paper industries. [ref. 4]
- Development Policies Department (employment, indigenous peoples)
- Enterprise Development Department (informal sector and cooperatives)
- Research, exchange of information and publications in the forest sector related ot employment and labour. Forestry and Wood Industries on the Move - impact of globalization and relocation of forest industries. Social aspects of sustainable forest management. Network on forestry workforce. Technical manuals on working conditions, ergonomics. Programme of seminars, workshops and teams of specialists for Europe and North America under Joint FAO/ECE/ILO. Committee on Forest Technology, Management and Training.
- Tripartite industrial meetings. Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Forest Work adopted 1997. Advisory services to member governments, employers' and workers' organizations. Criteria and indicators social aspects of sustainable forest management. Safety and health in forest work. Human resources and forest worker training Technical Cooperation. National code of forest practices. Promotion of labour-based employment in forestry
- Rights of indigenous and tribal peoples. Participatory forest management/utilization (poverty and resource conservation)
Relevance to forests by key words
labour, working conditions, forestry workers unions, tribal people, indigenous people, codes of forest practices