World Employment Conference

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As the World Employment Conference (short form; English: World Employment Conference ) one in 1976 at the initiative is the International Labor Organization in Geneva veranstalteter Congress designated. The “basic needs concept” presented as a result influenced the later development aid policies of various countries.

The congress was organized as a result of a resolution of the 59th International Labor Conference (organizer: ILO) in 1974. The conference with the complete name Tripartite World Conference on Employment, Income Distribution and Social Progress and the International Division of Labor (German: Tripartite World Conference on Employment, income distribution and social progress and the international division of labor ) took place from 4 to 17 June 1976 and was attended by more than 1000 participants from 121 countries. These included representatives from governments and workers 'and employers' organizations. 22 international and 58 non-governmental organizations sent delegates. In contrast to the usual annual International Labor Conferences of the ILO, not only representatives from labor, but also from economic and trade, foreign and development aid ministries took part.

At the conference, a concept of the priority satisfaction of the basic needs of all people was developed. Particular attention should be paid to the elementary needs of the lowest income groups. To this end, an action program was decided in which national strategies and development plans should pursue the fulfillment of these basic needs as the main objective. This strategy was also endorsed by the UN General Assembly . In addition to private consumption (food, housing, clothing, furnishings), basic community services (drinking water supply, sanitary facilities, transport, health and educational institutions) were defined as basic needs. The aim was to raise the minimum standards to a certain level by the end of the century. The focus on basic needs followed the results of preliminary, parallel studies by the Bariloche and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundations and the ILO. The satisfaction of basic needs took the place of a previously purely economic definition of development; with which people and not just economic growth moved into the center of the desired development process.

As a result of the conference results, the federal government defined in 1978 a. a. the basic needs according to the specifications of the action program.

Other international employment conferences

Numerous other international conferences were also referred to as employment conferences : For example, in March 1994, the first employment conference of the industrial nations of the G7 took place in Detroit ; which was followed by a second in Lille in April 1996 . The Association of Personnel Service Providers organized a world employment conference , in 2004 it took place in Montreux . On May 23, 2011, France invited the G20 countries to a ministerial conference on employment in Paris . An EU employment conference was held in Milan from October 8-10, 2014 .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Population and the World Employment Conference , in: Population and Development Review , Volume 2, No. 3/4 (Sept / Dec 1976), Population Council (Ed.), At JSTOR
  3. ↑ Sigrid Möller, Vocational Adult Education in Venezuela: A Contribution to Reducing Poverty and Marginality? , from the series: Science and Research , Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 1986, p. 9
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  6. ^ D. John Shaw, ILO World Employment Conference 1976 , in: World Food Security: A History since 1945 , ISBN 978-1-349-36333-9 , Palgrave Macmillan , 2007, p. 222
  7. ↑ Harald Hohmann, The Critique of the Economic Development Concept of the NWWO at the Beginning of the Third Development Decade , in: Right to Development in the International Discussion: Necessary Supplement to the Concept of the New World Economic Order, United Nations, 2/1982, p. 61
  8. ↑ Shymaa el- Aboodi, Exploratory Study of the Specific Framework Conditions in Iraq: Recommendations for Action and Concepts for Establishing the Local Construction Industry in Iraq in: Bauwirtschaft und Baubetrieb , Edition 37, ISBN 978-3-79832-1-250 , Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2009 , P. 6
  9. ^ Employment summit: G7 ministerial meeting in Lille - No concrete action , April 1, 1996, Die Welt
  10. ↑ The market alone is not enough , May 5, 2004, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  11. ^ Federal Councilor Schneider-Ammann takes part in G20 employment conference in Paris , May 20, 2011, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO, Swiss Confederation
  12. ↑ Speech at the EU employment conference in Milan , EU Monitor

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