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Who has been appointed as the next Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in March 2022?

Who has been appointed as the next Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in March 2022? Correct Answer Gilbert Houngbo

The correct answer is Gilbert Houngbo.

Key Points

  • Gilbert Houngbo from Togo appointed as the next Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 25 March 2022.
  • Houngbo, former Prime Minister of Togo, will be the 11th head of the agency and the first African to hold the post.
  • His five-year term will begin on October 1, 2022.
  • The current Director-General, Guy Ryder, from the United Kingdom, has held office since 2012.

Additional Information

  • The International Labour Organization is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labour standards.
  • It was founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations.
  • It is the first and oldest specialised agency of the UN. 
  • It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland
  • It received the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize.

Related Questions

Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The International Labour Office is the permanent secretariat of the ILO.
2. Convention 182 regarding worst forms of Child Labour has been ratified by India.
3. International Labour Conference is also known as an international Parliament of labour.
4. International Labour Conference is a forum for discussion of key social and labour questions.
5. Trade Unions are involved in collecting wage data including fringe and personal benefits.
6. Strikes, boycotts and gheraos are militant functions of trade union.
7. Ministrant functions of trade unions involve providing financial support to members during strikes and lockouts.
In the following question, sentences of a paragraph have been jumbled and labelled as A, B, C and D. You are required to rearrange the jumbled sentences of the paragraph and mark your response accordingly by selecting the correct option. A: The ILO has 187 member states: 186 out of 193 UN member states plus the Cook Islands. B: It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with around 40 field offices around the world, and employs some 2,700 staff from over 150 nations, of whom 900 work in technical cooperation programmes and projects. C: Founded in 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialised agency of the UN. D: The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labour standards.
Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work was passed in the year 1994.
2. The ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation was signed in 2008 by the representatives of governments, employers and workers from all ILO member States.
3. India has ratified 7 out of 8 core ILO conventions.
4. Social Justice is based on the fact that the workers can claim their share of wealth which they have helped to generate.
Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. The Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 is a fundamental convention of ILO.
2. Conventions are legally binding international treaties that may be ratified by member states.
3. Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 is a fundamental convention of ILO.
4. Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 is a governance convention of ILO.
Which of the following statements are true/false?
1. India ratified ILO's four fundamental conventions in 2017.
2. International Labour Conference meets twice a year in New York.
3. Recommendations of ILO are non-binding guidelines for the member countries.
4. The objectives of ILO are enumerated in the Declaration of Philadelphia.
Which of the following statements are not true in relation to employment of contract labour in any establishment?
1. Supreme Court can abolish contract labour system in any establishment.
2. High Court can abolish contract labour and prohibit the principal employer from engaging contract labour where the government has not abolished the same.
3. An appropriate government and not the court can prohibit the employment of contract labour as per the provisions of law.
4. Neither the court nor the appropriate government can abolish the contract labour in any establishment.
Who among the following can be appointed as the authority to hear and decide any claims arising out of deductions form wages or delay in payment of wages under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936?
1. Any Commissioner for Employees Compensation Act
2. Any regional labour commissioner appointed by the Central Government
3. Any assistant labour commissioner appointed by the Central Government
4. Any assistant labour commissioner appointed by the State Government with atleast two years of experinece.
5. A Judge of a Civil Court.
When labour is plotted on X-axis and capital is plotted on Y-axis and an iso-quant is prepared, then which of the following statements is/are false ? (a) Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is equal to the slope of the iso-quant. (b) Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is equal to change in the units of capital divided by the change in the units of labour. (c) Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is the ratio of marginal productivity of capital to marginal productivity of labour.
When labour is plotted on X-axis and capital is plotted on Y-axis and an isoquant is prepared, then which of the following statement(s) is/arefalse?
1. Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is equal to the slope of the iso-quant.
2. Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is equal to change in the units of capital divided by the change in the units of labour.
3. Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is the ratio of marginal productivity of capital to marginal productivity of labour.
Which of the following is true for ILO?
1. It has played an important role in standardisation of labour laws across the countries.
2. A country needs to ratify ILO's convention in order to it becoming a law in the country.
3. Its conventions regulate different aspects of labour laws and are passed at different conferences.