Closing session of the Maritime Session of the International Labour Conference. Geneva, 23 February 2006. Jean-Marc Schindler, government delegate from France and President of the Conference and Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Director, Department for International Labour Standards with ILO Director-General Juan Somavia.

"The MLC was expressly designed to be globally applicable, easily understandable, readily updatable and uniformly enforced legal instrument that, once it enters into force, will be one of teh main pillars of teh international regulator regime for quality shipping," says, Cleopatra Doumbia- Henry.


Photo cred: Marcel Crozet