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The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations , it is one of the first and oldest specialized agencies of the UN .
The International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO) is the training arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO). It runs training, learning and capacity development services for governments, employers' organizations, workers' organizations and other national and international partners in support of Decent Work and sustainable development. [1]
The concept of protecting workers from the perils of labour environments dates all the way back to 14th-century Europe. [6] The first example of the modern labor rights movement, though, came in response to the brutal working conditions that accompanied the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries. [6]
The list of International Labour Organization Conventions contains 191 codifications of worldwide labour standards. International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions are developed through tripartite negotiations between member state representatives from trade unions , employers' organisations and governments, and adopted by the annual ...
The Global Labour University (GLU) is an international network of universities, trade unions, NGOs and the International Labour Organisation.It was initiated in 2002 and offers master's programs, academic certificate programs and Massive Open Online Courses on sustainable development, social justice, international labour standards and trade/labour unions, economic policies and global institutions.
The Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 is an International Labor Organization Convention adopted at the 82nd International Labor Conference (ILC). The convention (C176) was developed and adopted to better recognize the inherent hazards of the mining workplace and the necessity of addressing these hazards on a global scale.
The Declaration of Philadelphia envisioned the ILO as the master agency among the specialized international bodies, placing the ILO "on the same plane as the UN as the economic counterpart of that world political body." [1]: 482 [5] Instead, the role it saw for the ILO was taken by the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
The Forced Labour Convention, the full title of which is the Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930 (No.29), is one of eight ILO fundamental conventions [2] of the International Labour Organization. Its object and purpose is to suppress the use of forced labour in all its forms irrespective of the nature of the work or the ...