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  1. Rules of the Game: an introduction to standards-related work of the ILO

    Centenary Edition 2019

  2. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards

  3. ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work

    108th Session of the International Labour Conference (2019)

  4. Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy (MNE Declaration)

  5. ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008)

  6. ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998)

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Labour standards

International labour standards have grown into a comprehensive system of instruments on work and social policy, backed by a supervisory system designed to address all sorts of problems in their application at the national level.  more

Highlights

  1. Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM TWG)

    ► Further information and advice is available from the ILO helpdesk on the SRM TWG (srmtwg@ilo.org).

    • The eighth meeting of the SRM TWG will take place from 11 to 16 September 2023.

  1. ILC, 111th Session, June 2023

    Report of the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards

  2. Podcast

    Writing the rules of the game - How international labour standards are created

  3. International labour standards and human rights

  4. Training on International Labour Standards

Supervisory bodies and procedures

General Introduction
  1. Supervising the application of standards
    ► Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR)
    ► Conference Committee on the Application of Standards (CAN)
    ► Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA)
Reports of the supervisory bodies
  1. 2023 Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
    - Addendum: Joint statement by CEACR and UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies 
  2. 2023 General Survey: Achieving gender equality at work - Executive Summary
  3. NEW - 2023 Report of the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards
  4. NEW - 403rd Report of the Committee on Freedom of Association (June 2023)
Complaint procedures
  1. Representations under article 24 of the ILO Constitution
  2. Complaints under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

What's new

  1. International labour standards

    Uganda ratifies the ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment

    07 August 2023

    Uganda becomes the 32nd country in the world, and the 8th country in Africa, to ratify Convention No. 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work

  2. International labour standards

    Germany ratifies Convention C190 on violence and harassment in the world of work

    19 June 2023

    Germany becomes the 31st country in the world, and the 9th country in Europe, to ratify the International Labour Organization Convention on Violence and Harassment.

  3. © ILO 2023

    News

    Belgium ratifies ILO Convention on violence and harassment in the world of work

    15 June 2023

    Belgium becomes the 30th country in the world, and the sixth in the European Union, to ratify Convention No. 190.

  4. Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    Portugal commits to enhance the protection of seafarers in cases of abandonment and piracy

    14 June 2023

    Portugal deposited the declaration of acceptance of the Amendments of 2014 and of 2018 to the Code of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

  5. © ILO 2023

    Forced Labour

    Brunei Darussalam joins the global movement against forced labour

    14 June 2023

    Brunei Darussalam becomes the 181st country in the world to ratify the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)

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