Examines international and regional standards relating to protection of child performers, key elements for protection, the regulation and monitoring of working conditions and collective agreement provisions.

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on population theory - discusses interactions between causes and present and future consequences of fertility change, its decrease in western developed countries and low birth rate in Eastern Europe and China, the case for birth control in developing countries, and...

Examines the effects of the crisis on employment conditions, job loss, labour relations, and the preferred socially responsible responses. Includes the questionnaires, addressed to management and unions, on changed working conditions, flexible work practice, role of collective agreements, and...

Estimates the global magnitude of forced labour profits in order to throw light on the scale of this economic exploitation.

Identifies and describes a set of community-based youth employment development projects from across the globe, representing valuable examples of collaboration between development players. The intention is to identify a set of outstanding case studies, focusing on public-private partnerships...

Identifies important trends in the use of international labour standards (ILS) in equity markets and examines why investors globally are motivated to take up ILS and how they are doing so. Identifies also promising initiatives for dialogue between investors, companies, trade unions and other...