Department of Labor

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 74-74
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Department Of Labor ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The United Nations

The Department of Labor is involved in Africa and African affairs in two areas: training programs and technical assistance. The Department itself has no budget for programs in Africa; hence all funding for Labor’s activities comes from other government agencies or independent organizations such as the United Nations and the International Labor Office.

International Labor Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-322
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Director General ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Fact Finding

Meeting in its 110th session in Mysore, India, the ILO Governing Body completed action on a number of projects designed to extend, in cooperation with the United Nations, technical assistance to economically under-developed areas. The Governing Body also authorized the Director-General (Morse) to raise with the Trusteeship Council a number of questions arising out of the reports of the administering authorities and relating to the applicability of ILO conventions and recommendations in trust territories. At the same session, the Governing Body approved procedures for the establishment of a nine-member commission to examine infringements of trade union rights, the first international fact-finding and conciliation commission on freedom of association. The members of the commission, to be chosen “for their personal qualifications” and expected to “discharge their duties with complete independence,” were to be selected by the Governing Body at its 111th session, to convene in Geneva on March 8, 1950. The commission was created in accordance with a request of the Economic and Social Council of August 1949 and was to function on behalf of the United Nations as well as the ILO. The Governing Body defined the commission as “essentially a fact-finding body” which was also authorized to consult with the government or governments concerned “with a view to securing the adjustment of difficulties by agreement.” Complaints alleging the violation of trade union rights were to be referred to the commission by either the Governing Body or the International Labor Conference.

Politics and the Future of ECOSOC

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman J. Padelford
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The United Nations

Economic and social cooperation through the United Nations seems destined to face new challenges and alternatives in the coming years as a result of the changed composition of the United Nations membership, the increased bargaining power of the African, Asian, and other states seeking economic and technical assistance, and the precedent of UN operations in the Congo.

Fever Chart of the U.N.

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 9-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Byrns Sills
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Early Years ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Palestine Liberation Organization ◽  
Current State ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Current Attitude ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
World Organization

Recent events in the United Nations have called into question American support for the world organization—particularly resolutions of the Twenty-Ninth General Assembly (1974) giving observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization, resolutions of the Thirtieth Assembly (1975) equating Zionism with racism, and recent actions of the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Labor Organization. What I plan here, using polling data primarily, is an analysis of the current state of American public opinion about the U.N., and I want to place the current attitude in historical perspective.In the early years of the organization—roughly from the signing of the Charter in 1945 through the Korean armistice in 1953—the American public tended to have great expectations of the United Nations.

International Labor Organization

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-360 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
American States ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Social Council ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
June July

Report to the Economic and Social Council: The International Labor Organization submitted to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on, September 29, 1947 a report on its activities during the year 1947. This report, the first of a regular series which ILO had agreed to submit regularly (Article V paragraph 2(a) of the Agreement between the United Nations and the ILO), included background information and covered the period from the establishment of the United Nations to July 15, 1947. This report dealt with the decisions of five successive sessions of the International Labor Conference, i.e., those held in Philadelphia, May 1947, in Paris, October–November 1945, in Seattle, June 1946, in Montreal, September–October 1946, and in Geneva, June–July 1947. Future reports, it was announced, would cover only one year's work. The report was accompanied by a volume containing a series of appendices which included the text of the Constitution of ILO as amended by the 1946 Instrument of Amendment, the text of the Agreement between the United Nations and ILO, a list of the committees of ILO, a list of meetings convened by ILO as well as meetings of other international organizations at which ILO was represented during the period covered by the report, a list of and the texts of Conventions, Recommendations, and some of the Resolutions adopted by the International Labor Conference, resolutions adopted by the third Conference of American States Members of ILO, held in 1946, and the text of the agreement between ILO and FAO.

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-236 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Member States ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Special Fund ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its eleventh General Conference in Paris from November 14 to December 15, 1960, under the presidency of Mr. Akale-Work Abte-Wold (Ethiopia). Ninety-eight member states of UNESCO participated in the Conference compared with the 75 that were members in 1958 at the time of the tenth General Conference. The General Conference approved the program of activities for 1961–1962 and unanimously voted a budget of $32,513,228 to finance it; to this amount was added over $12 million provided by the United Nations Technical Assistance Fund to enable UNESCO to carry out many additional educational and scientific projects. UNESCO was also to act as executing agency for seventeen projects concerning higher technical education, for which the UN Special Fund was to provide more than $11 million in 1961–1962. Also allocated by the Conference was $915,000 for the construction of an additional building in Paris, the total cost of which was to be $3,535,000.

The United Nations and Its Public

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Swift
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Governmental Functions

No governmental functions are traditionally more suspect than those relating to public information. National legislators always demur at the public relations work of civil servants. They inevitably assume (at times, with good reason) that appropriating funds to inform people about the performance of government agencies only helps to preserve the bureaucracy and to create and nurture a public which ultimately will bring pressure to bear upon the legislature itself.

The United Nations and Human Rights

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Gudmundur Alfredsson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
International Human ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Human Rights Standards ◽  
Rights Issues

International cooperation for the promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms is one of the very purposes of the United Nations, according to article 1 of the Organization's Charter. The mandate is clear. In order to live up to this purpose, much work has been undertaken by establishing international human rights standards and by encouraging and persuading states to comply with these same standards.This presentation, by way of an overview, briefly describes the international human rights instruments and the classification and contents of the standards contained therein. The methods employed by the United Nations and non-governmental organization (NGOs) for the realization of the standards are also outlined, including monitoring procedures, technical assistance and other activities concerned with the protection and promotion of human rights. Finally, the presentation identifies UN institutions where human rights issues and procedures are debated and decided upon.

Deeming Laws and Practices as Violations of the Rights of People With Work-Acquired Disabilities in Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-544
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Hilgert ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Injured Worker ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Work Related ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Human Rights Standards

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups in Canada is leading a multiyear campaign called Workers’ Comp is a Right to reform the provincial workers’ injury compensation system and to fight back against regressive changes made to the system over several decades. At their Annual General Meeting in Toronto held in June 2019, delegates voted unanimously to make this submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a part of the regular supervisory process under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The subject is income deeming “phantom jobs” to injured worker claimants with income replacement benefits. The document illustrates how Canadian injured worker groups have activated a human rights lens and references international labor and human rights standards concerning social insurance and income replacement benefits for work-related injury and illness.

Farewell to Foreign Aid: At the United Nations

Worldview ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Sudhir Sen
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Significant Size

To say that there is room tor improvement in the U.N. development operations would be the understatement of this Development Decade. The truth is that the U.N. launched its development program without an overall policy or a sound strategy III organized for the task, it is still stumbling along an uncharted path.The Expanded Program of Technical Assistance, or EPTA (so called because it had some modest precursors), was the first program of significant size that brought together the entire U.N. family, i.e.. the United Nations and its specialized agencies. Almost from birth it was caught in a procedural tangle. Expediency, compromises, ad hoc decisions—especially to accommodate the conflicting agency interests and viewpoints—became its hallmark.

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