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TO ALL MEMBER STATES OF THE ILO
ILC 111 – 100 – 2
24 April 2023
Arrangements for the 111th Session of the
International Labour Conference
(Geneva, 5-16 June 2023)
Website: www.ilo.org/ilc
Dear Minister,
With reference to the convocation letter sent on 17 February 2023, I am pleased to provide you with
further details on the 111th Session of the International Labour Conference, which will be held in
Geneva from Monday, 5 June to Friday, 16 June 2023. In accordance with the decision adopted by
the Governing Body at its 347th Session (March 2023), this year’s Conference marks a return to fully
in-person participation. It is therefore expected that Member States will ensure the presence in
Geneva of national tripartite delegations.
Programme of work
Please note that preparatory meetings of Employers’ and Workers’ groups will be conducted in
person on Sunday, 4 June.
The Conference will open on Monday, 5 June. Committees of the Conference will start their work
as from the afternoon of the same day. The plenary discussion of the reports of the Director-General
and of the Chairperson of the Governing Body on the work carried out by the Governing Body
between June 2022 and March 2023 will take place between Tuesday, 6 June and Tuesday, 13 June.
The report of the Director-General will be entitled Social Justice: Renewing the social contract. The
Director-General’s report on the situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories will as usual be
appended to the main report. Tripartite constituents are invited to express their views on the
reports and appendix in the Conference plenary.
Following the decision adopted by the Governing Body at its 347th Session, the World of Work
Summit: Social Justice for all will take place on Wednesday, 14 June and Thursday, 15 June. This
high-level event will be a key political moment for global voices to call for increased, coordinated
and coherent action in favour of social justice, and will provide an opportunity to discuss the
initiative to forge a Global Coalition for Social Justice. The Summit will feature addresses by Heads of
State and Government, employers’ and workers’ organizations’ representatives, as well as panel
discussions, including with high-level representatives of UN agencies and other international
organizations.
The Conference will close on Friday, 16 June.
2.
Composition of delegations
As a result of the return to full in-person attendance and the availability of the Palais des Nations
premises, delegations may be composed as provided for in the Standing Orders of the
International Labour Conference, without any particular restrictions for this Session. In
addition, physical access to the sittings will again be provided to the press and the public,
subject to space availability and any necessary security arrangements.
Member States are invited to pursue the consultation process with the most representative national
organizations of employers and workers to determine the composition of their delegations to the
111th Session of the Conference, to ensure that they are fully tripartite and balanced as regards
the number of advisers accompanying the respective tripartite delegates.
Every effort should be made to achieve gender balance in the composition of national delegations
(please see the infographic on the gender parity annexed to this letter).
Credentials
The accreditation of Conference participants will be done through a password-protected online
accreditation system, which will be activated on 2 May 2023. A communication to this effect will
be sent to Member States, through their Permanent Missions (where they exist), providing the
access codes. In this connection, I would like to remind you of the importance of ensuring that
credentials of national delegations are submitted on or before Monday, 15 May 2023.
Registration to speak in plenary
The plenary sittings to discuss the reports of the Director-General and of the Chairperson of the
Governing Body will take place from 6 to 13 June 2023. Speeches delivered in plenary must not
be longer than 5 minutes. Registration to speak in plenary will open on Friday, 12 May and
close on Wednesday, 7 June at 6 p.m. (Central European Summer Time).
Registration in technical committees
Delegates and advisers from each of the three constituent groups will need to register to take part
in the work of the various technical committees. Government, employer and worker delegates and
advisers who intend to participate in committees are therefore kindly asked to complete the online
registration forms as soon as possible and no later than Sunday, 4 June by 5 p.m. (Central
European Summer Time) so as to be able to participate in the first sitting of each committee.
Visas and insurance
Delegations requiring visas should contact the Swiss consular services directly, as early as possible,
to obtain the visas required to attend the Conference. The Office will be able to support visa
applications only after having received valid credentials for the persons concerned.
Please note that the ILO does not provide participants with insurance coverage for accident or
illness while travelling to or from Geneva or during the Conference. It is therefore essential that all
participants ensure that they have adequate insurance coverage in respect of illness and accident
before travelling to Geneva.
Further practical information
The Conference website contains further details on the agenda of the 111th Session of the
Conference and will be regularly updated with practical information for delegates, including a
Conference Guide.
3.
Should you have any questions about the 111th Session of the International Labour Conference,
please contact the Secretariat at
[email protected].
I look forward to welcoming your national tripartite delegation to the 111th Session of the
International Labour Conference in Geneva.
Yours sincerely,
Gilbert F. Houngbo
Director-General
X Gender Parity at the
International Labour
Conference in
2022
X Accredited delegates
Men Women
63.5 % 36.5 %
X Tripartite delegates by group
Governments
Women Men
41.5 % 58.5 %
Employers
Women Men
33.2 % 66.8 %
Workers
Women Men
29.8 % 70.2 %
X Ministers accredited
Women Men
29.2 % 70.8 %
X Speakers at the plenary
Women Men
25.7 % 74.3 %
X Women delegates by region
46.6 %
Europe
39.6 %
Americas
31.5 %
Asia and the Pacific
30.4 %
Africa
X Women delegates by country
47 % 30-46 % 1-29 % 0%
and more
Albania North Angola Netherlands Algeria Russian Afghanistan
Australia Macedonia Antigua and Papua New Bangladesh Federation Burundi
Austria Philippines Barbuda Guinea Bolivia Saint Lucia Eritrea
Bahamas Poland Argentina Peru Brazil Saudi Arabia Eswatini
Barbados Portugal Armenia Republic of Brunei Solomon Grenada
Belize Saint Kitts Azerbaijan Korea Darussalam Islands
Guyana
Benin and Nevis Bahrain Republic of Cambodia Somalia
Sao Tome and
Bosnia and Saint Vincent Belarus Moldova Central African Sri Lanka
Herzegovina and the Belgium Rwanda Republic Syrian Arab Principe
Bulgaria Grenadines Botswana San Marino Congo Republic Sierra Leone
Cabo Verde Samoa Burkina Faso Senegal Côte d’Ivoire Türkiye Suriname
Canada Serbia Cameroon Seychelles Democratic Uzbekistan Yemen
Cook Islands Slovakia Chad Singapore Republic of the Zambia
Costa Rica Slovenia Chile South Sudan Congo Zimbabwe
Croatia South Africa China Sudan Ethiopia
Czechia Spain Colombia Switzerland Fiji
Dominica Suriname Comoros Tanzania Gabon
Estonia Sweden Cuba Thailand Guinea-Bissau
Finland Tajikistan Cyprus Timor-Leste Haiti
Gambia Trinidad and Denmark Togo Honduras
Georgia Tobago Djibouti Tunisia India
Germany Turkmenistan Dominican Uganda Iran
Greece United Republic Ukraine Iraq
Guatemala Kingdom Ecuador United Arab Jordan
Hungary United States Egypt Emirates Kazakhstan
Iceland of America El Salvador Uruguay Kenya
Ireland Equatorial Vanuatu Kuwait
Israel Guinea Venezuela Lebanon
Italy France (Bolivarian Libya
Jamaica Ghana Republic of) Mali
Kiribati Guinea Viet Nam Marshall
Kyrgyzstan Indonesia Islands
Latvia Japan Mauritania
Lesotho Lao PDR Mozambique
Lithuania Liberia Nepal
Maldives Luxembourg Niger
Mongolia Madagascar Nigeria
Montenegro Malawi Oman
Namibia Malaysia Pakistan
Nicaragua Malta Panama
Norway Mauritius Paraguay
New Zealand Mexico Qatar
Morocco Romania