Issues and reports

FERMUN 2024 – International Labour Organization

ILO 1 – Fundamental rights – (Trilingual committee)
Forced labour, modern slavery, child labour.

Issue 1: How can measures to tackle modern slavery be strengthened? 

Research report
Informe de investigación

Issue 2: How can we counter forced child labour?

Research report
Informe de investigación

Chairs: Alice Watelet,  Clémire Acelor,  Jan Oldenburg.

ILO 2 – Equality and discrimination – (Bilingual committee)
Sexism, racism, visible and invisible disabilities, employer rights (redundancies, transfers).

Issue 1: How to fight off racism in the workplace? 

Research report

Issue 2: How to abolish gender stereotypes in the tertiary sector?

Research Report

Chairs: Adrienne Husny, Grace Baylis, Selma Surieux.

ILO 3 – Environment – (Bilingual committee)
Green jobs, companies’ carbon footprints + the role of governments in regulating corporate pollution.

Issue 1: How can we limit the environmental impact of fast fashion?

Research report

Issue 2: How can we promote “green jobs” without penalising employees whose jobs are harmful to the environment?

Research report

Chairs:  Waliya Said Abasse, Nada Elouafi, Mandisa Mathew.

ILO 4 –  Innovation – (Trilingual committee)
Intelligence Artificielle, remplacement des humains au travail par des machines, conservation de l’artisanat et des petites entreprises face aux machines, télétravail.

Issue 1: The impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work: How can we protect workers whose jobs could disappear and how can we use AI to improve working conditions and open up new opportunities?

Research report
Informe de investigación

Issue 2: The digital economy: A pathway to more and better work for young people?

Research report
Informe de investigación

Chairs: Saliqa Amin, Spade Davis, Gabriela Valle.

ILO 5 – Young people in the workplace – (Bilingual committee)
Apprenticeships, internships, jobs, the role of the State, companies and employees in guiding young people from school onwards.

Issue 1: How can apprenticeship programmes be developed to combat youth unemployment?

Research report

Issue 2: How can internships be upgraded to provide young people with a suitable and decent working environment?

Research Report

Chairs: Aurore Stamatiadis, Emilie Escot, Ava Touboul.

ILO 6 – Solidarity – (Bilingual committee)
Cooperatives, social and solidarity economy, public/private authorities, unemployment, wages, voluntary work, redirection of the economy from the State and companies.

Issue 1: What solidarity policies should be adopted to reduce unemployment?

Research report

Issue 2: How can the Social and Solidarity Economy be developed on a global scale?

Research report

Chairs: Jasmine Benlechhab, Shirel Nakache, Dahlia Djelouah.