Since the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse there has been a sustained effort to enhance the capacity and efficiency of the Labour Inspectorate. ILO is supporting this process through its Working Conditions in the Ready-Made Garment Sector Programme funded by Canada, the Netherlands, and the (...)
Badly injured while helping to rescue fellow workers from the rubble of Rana Plaza, Shahjahan Selim is now permanently disabled. Through ILO medical and business skills assistance Selim has overcome adversity to open a small shop which after just one year of operation has grown to twice its (...)
Haunted by the Rana Plaza collapse Nasir Uddin Sohel could not face returning to a large factory. After receiving counselling from ILO he used his compensation money to setup his own small garment factory. A year on, the business has grown from two sewing machines to eight and he now employs (...)
As labour inspectors, Farzana Islam and her colleagues are on the front line to ensure the safety and rights of over four million ready-made garment workers in Bangladesh. ILO supports capacity building of the labour inspectorate through a programme funded by Canada, the Netherlands and the (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo met with the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, in Geneva on 17 April to step up collaborative efforts on the issue of trade and food security, as well as other (...)
At an event on clean energy governance and implications for international trade organized by the ICTSD and the Energy Charter Secretariat on 17 April 2015, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said that there are numerous areas where the WTO and the Energy Charter “can work more closely together to (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 22 April 2015, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document officially (...)
The Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs), on 16 April, considered 14 complaints about investment measures that have raised concerns on allegedly favouring domestic over imported products through local-content requirements. Five of these complaints were made in relation to (...)
WTO members agreed on 14 April to a proposal from the Chair of the Negotiating Group on Rules, Ambassador Wayne McCook (Jamaica), that the WTO Secretariat hold an information briefing on the morning of 4 May regarding the rules negotiations. This will be followed by a separate “open-ended” (...)