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Workers’ Rights as Human Rights

Introduction

As part of a Memorandum of Understanding for academic collaboration signed between the Institute and Cornell University and targeted on visiting students, the two institutions have joined hands to run a special course at the ILO on the theme: "Workers' Rights as Human Rights". The course consists of a series of lectures delivered by ILO specialists based in Geneva and videoconferences given by academics based in Ithaca. The lectures and videoconferences are scheduled to run through the months of February to May 2005.

Course Description

The course has two main purposes. It will re-examine U.S. domestic labor law and policy using internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment. It will conduct that re-examination in an international comparative context. This will be a videoconference class meeting jointly with the International Labour Organization (ILO). Class presentations and discussions will be led by staff members of the ILO as well as by ILR faculty members. Subjects to be addressed include: the idea of human rights, human rights documents, and the sources of workers' rights; the ILO and the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; occupational safety and health; discrimination; labor rights and international trade; international law and workers' rights; the value judgments underlying labor policy choices; and the enforcement of international workers' rights standards, nationally and internationally.