"GUY RYDER"

High-level Political Forum opens ministerial segment amid calls for urgent action in tackling global injustice, effects of climate change at 29th meeting.

A landmark international agreement banning violence and harassment in the workplace was adopted today in Geneva at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Centenary Conference. ILO

British Prime Minister Theresa May said modern slavery “has no place in the modern world” adding, “let us commit ourselves to a future in which all the people of the world can be employed in dignity, safety and freedom.” ILO

“The future of work will be the result of our decisions, our choices, our capacity to follow-up on them, our willingness to cooperate together to make the future of work the one that we want,” Guy Ryder, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) said at the opening of ILO’s annual International Labour Conference in Geneva. ILO

President stresses central role of decent work in fighting poverty, inequality, as General Assembly marks International Labour Organization centenary at 74th plenary meeting.

President stresses central role of decent work in fighting poverty, inequality, as General Assembly marks International Labour Organization centenary at 74th plenary meeting.

Joint Press Briefing by the President of the General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés and the Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, briefing on the High-Level Meeting to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the ILO.

High-level plenary meeting to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the International Labour Organization.

“Had the ILO not existed our world of work would look different and it would not be where it is and not as good as it is today”- Guy Ryder, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization said Wednesday, on the eve of the Organization’s 100th anniversary. UNIFEED

Taking part in an ILO’s celebration event of the International Women’s Day, Yalitza Aparicio, the actor who stars in the Oscar-winning film Roma said if you are women facing obstacles, you have to “keep insisting because at some point you will achieve it!” ILO