2011: a year of effort, success and applauses!

We would like to celebrate with you a year of achieved goals and accomplishments! Today we celebrate that …

* On the course that concluded in the XVII IACML in San Salvador, the Ministries of Labor reaffirmed the value of reflecting together on those issues that affect us all;

* once again we had a hemispheric joint Declaration between workers and employers;

* we carried out the first dialogue among Ministers of Labor and Ministers of Women’s Affairs;

* the RIAL was consolidated as a regional mechanism within the strategies of cooperation and institutional strengthening. Today, the Ministries are committed in supporting it, and 8 of them have already made voluntary contributions to its financing.

We thank you for your support along this year, you made it possible! We wish you happy holidays and a happy new year of peace, prosperity and much work!



Colombia, venue of the XVIII IACML: 50 years of history

The government of Colombia will again host the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor in 2013; this time, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The labor authorities gathered for the first time in Bogotá in 1963, and now, five decades later, they will meet again in Colombian territory.

Premiere “RIAL: A Collective Construction”
We want to invite you to enjoy the most recent production of the RIAL: “A Collective Construction”. Featuring testimonies from the hemisphere's labor authorities, the video gives an overview of the seven tools of the RIAL, its significance to the engine of the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor (IACML) and its role in advancing the labor policies and initiatives for the people of the Americas. Lights, camera, action!

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