Quels sont les principaux événements intervenus sur le plan des échanges et des normes du travail depuis la parution en 1996 de l’étude de l’OCDE sur « Le commerce, l’emploi et les normes du travail » ? Que fait-on pour promouvoir ces normes ? Quels ont été les progrès...

The Seminar, held in Paris in December 1998, was a forum for discussion, in a broad sense, gathering together people from international scientific circles and people responsible for the preparation of political decisions. Bringing together delegates from more than 30 European countries, it was...

Recent years have witnessed growing concern over the controversial issue of trade and labour standards. In a context of intensified international competition, alleged cases of child labour exploitation or of denial of rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining in some developing...

This report points to the growing number of labor migrants in Asia and examines the policy question of how to best safeguard their rights. Governments and stakeholders in both origin and destination countries have largely recognized their mutual interest in safeguarding labor migrants....