title: Unemployment Convention, 1919
text: # Unemployment Convention, 1919
  
  Unemployment Convention, 1919 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
  
  It was established in 1919:
  
     Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the "question of preventing or providing against unemployment",...
  
  ## Ratifications
  
  As of 2013, the convention had been ratified by 57 states. Of the ratifying states, three have subsequently denounced the treaty.
  
  | Country | Date | Notes |
  | - | - | - |
  | Argentina | November 30, 1933 |
  | Australia | June 15, 1972 |
  | Austria | June 12, 1924 |
  | Belgium | August 25, 1930 |
  | Bosnia and Herzegovina | June 2, 1993 |
  | Bulgaria | February 14, 1922 | denounced July 20, 1960 |
  | Central African Republic | June 9, 1964 |
  | Chile | May 31, 1933 |
  | Colombia | June 20, 1933 |
  | Cyprus | October 8, 1965 |
  | Denmark | October 13, 1921 |
  | Djibouti | August 3, 1978 |
  | Ecuador | February 5, 1962 |
  | Egypt | July 3, 1954 |
  | Estonia | December 20, 1922 |
  | Ethiopia | June 11, 1966 |
  | Finland | October 19, 1921 |
  | France | August 25, 1925 |
  | Germany | June 6, 1925 |
  | Greece | November 19, 1920 |
  | Guyana | June 8, 1966 |
  | Hungary | March 1, 1928 |
  | Iceland | February 17, 1958 |
  | India | July 14, 1921 | denounced April 16, 1938 |
  | Ireland | September 4, 1925 |
  | Italy | April 10, 1923 |
  | Japan | November 23, 1922 |
  | Kenya | January 13, 1964 |
  | Luxembourg | April 16, 1928 |
  | Malta | January 4, 1965 |
  | Mauritius | December 2, 1969 |
  | Montenegro | June 3, 2006 |
  | Morocco | October 14, 1960 |
  | Myanmar | July 14, 1921 |
  | Netherlands | February 6, 1932 |
  | New Zealand | March 29, 1938 |
  | Nicaragua | April 12, 1934 |
  | North Macedonia | November 17, 1991 |
  | Norway | November 23, 1921 |
  | Papua New Guinea | May 1, 1976 |
  | Poland | June 21, 1924 |
  | Romania | June 13, 1921 |
  | Serbia | November 24, 2000 | ratified as Serbia and Montenegro |
  | Seychelles | February 6, 1978 |
  | Slovenia | May 29, 1992 |
  | South Africa | February 20, 1924 |
  | Spain | July 4, 1923 |
  | South Korea | November 7, 2011 |
  | Sudan | June 18, 1957 |
  | Sweden | September 27, 1921 |
  | Switzerland | October 9, 1922 |
  | Syrian Arab Republic | July 26, 1960 | As the United Arab Republic |
  | Turkey | July 14, 1950 |
  | Ukraine | May 16, 1994 |
  | United Kingdom | July 14, 1921 |
  | Uruguay | June 6, 1933 | denounced November 11, 1982 |
  | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela | November 20, 1944 |
  