Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Youth employment: Potential and challenge -- 1.1. Overview of youth labour market trends -- 1.2. Great potential and tremendous costs: The need to act -- 1.3. Why are youth disadvantaged in the labour market? Overview of the factors -- 1.4. Creating...

The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, whose work constitutes the cornerstone of the ILO's supervisory system on international labour standards, has just published its annual report.

Principles Embodied in the ILO Forced Labour Conventions Nos. 29 and 105 have found practically universal acceptance and endorsement and have become an unalienable part of the fundamental rights of human beings. They have been incorporated in various international instruments, both universal and...