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The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues. Read more...

The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) was created in 1992 with the overall goal of the progressive elimination of child labour, which was to be achieved through strengthening the capacity of countries to deal with the problem and promoting a worldwide movement to combat child labour. IPEC currently has operations in 88 countries and its the largest programme of its kind globally. Read more...

The Hague “International City of Peace and Justice” welcomes the Global Child Labour Conference

The Hague is more than willing to host the The Hague Global Child Labour Conference on 10^th and 11^th may 2010. As the International Labour Organization states: “The future belongs to those with a vision to shape it. The ILO and its partners stand for a world where no girl or boy is forced to work at the expense of their health and development or their future prospects of decent work. A future without child labour is at last within reach. Significant progress is being made worldwide in combating child labour.” In The Hague people are working hard to make the world a little bit better than it is today. The Child Labour Conference is a good example of this city being a natural place to host such an important conference.

The foundation of The Hague as 'City of Peace and Justice' was laid more than 100 years ago in 1899, when the world's first-ever Peace Conference took place in The Hague, followed by a second one in 1907. A direct result of these meetings was the establishment of the first world organisation for the settlement of international disputes: the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Shortly thereafter the American millionaire Andrew Carnegie made available the necessary funds for building the Peace Palace. Untill this day this palace is a symbol for peace all over the world.

In the years following the establishment of the Peace Palace, The Hague became in 1922 the seat of the Permanent Court of International Justice, a new court established under the auspices of the League of Nations. This was replaced by the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, after the Second World War. In 1981 the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal was established, further consolidating the role of The Hague as the centre of international legal arbitration. In march of 2009 the world conference on Afghanistan was held in The Hague.

Nowerdays The Hague is host to International Organizations like International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Orgniazatuion for the Prohibition of Chimical Weapons and Europol.  In 1998 the world community, gathering in Rome for the negotiations on the Statute for the International Criminal Court, decided that the future ICC would be based in The Hague, which was effected in 2002. In 2012 they will enter their newly build court.