Information Center: 2006

This report summarizes the analysis of major issues affecting the current status of teaching personnel worldwide at all levels of education by the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART), referred to in this report as the Joint Committee or CEART. Major findings and recommendations on substantive issues are excerpted from the full report.

This study analyzes workers’ conditions and rights in Equatorial Guinea. The beginning of this study shows a synthetic description of current working conditions and workers’ rights in the country based on different human rights reports. The second part covers the intense labor history of what is known today as Equatorial Guinea from the 19th century to present. The third part analyzes labor relations existing today within the country’s present political and economic context as it would be impossible to understand them otherwise. And lastly, the fourth part observes workers’ organizational initiatives, the difficulties they encounter and existing future prospects for a trade union movement in Equatorial Guinea.

Esta nota es hecha en respuesta para la resolución 3-/123 de la Asamblea General en materia de asistencia a Guinea Ecuatorial. El Administrador pide al Comité decidir entre el ciclo restante, si se le deben de extender los beneficios a Guinea Ecuatorial como aquellos beneficios para países menos desarrollados o si se debe de limitar la prestación del tercer ciclo de la IPF y se debe de autorizar si el programa de actividades de desarrollo urgente así lo requiere. The present note contains information on the first two-year extension of the second country programme for Sudan and, the first one-year extensions of first country programmes for Colombia, Equatorial Guinea and Suriname, the regional programme for Africa, and the regional programme for Asia and the Pacific. The Governments of Sudan and Equatorial Guinea requested the two-year and one-year extensions to their respective country programmes.

This report reviews U.S. international antitrafficking efforts by examining (1) estimates of the extent of global trafficking, (2) the U.S.government’s strategy for combating the problem abroad, and (3) the Department of State’s process for evaluating foreign governments’ antitrafficking efforts.