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Tel : +41 (0) 22 799 7155
Email : normes@ilo.org
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See also

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

    Centenary Edition 2019

  2. Monitoring compliance with international labour standards: The key role of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

    Centenary Edition 2019

  3. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards

  4. ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work

    108th Session of the International Labour Conference (2019)

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

    5th Edition (March 2017)

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

  7. 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. New Website 

    Presentation of the General Survey 2020 and Addendum 2021  "Promoting employment and decent work in a changing landscape

  2. ILC, 109th session, 2021

    Committee on the Application of Standards (CAS)

    The Committee will meet virtually on 28 May 2021 and from 3 to 19 June 2021.

  3. Covid-19: Protecting workers

  4. Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR)

    Q&A with Corinne Vargha on the launch of the 2021 CEACR Report

    25 February 2021

  1. Training on International Labour Standards

  2. The standards initiative

  3. #Trade4DecentWork

    Trade for Decent Work Project

    The project aims at improving the application of the ILO fundamental Conventions in EU trading partner countries through improved labour relations and working conditions

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 (CAS)
    ► Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA)
Reports of the supervisory bodies
  1. 2020 Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
    2021 Addendum to the 2020 Report of the Committee of Experts
  2. 2020 General Survey: Promoting employment and decent work in a changing landscape 
    2021 Addendum to the 2020 General Survey
  3. 2019 Report of the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards
  4. 393rd Report of the Committee on Freedom of Association (March 2021)
    394th Report of the Committee on Freedom of Association (March 2021)
    CFA Annual report for the year 2020
Complaint procedures
  1. Representations under article 24 of the ILO Constitution
  2. Complaints under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

What's new

  1. Web page

    Presentation of the General Survey 2020 and Addendum 2021 "Promoting Employment in a Changing Landscape"

    02 June 2021

  2. Occupational Safety and Health

    The Republic of Moldova ratifies the Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985 (No. 161)

    29 May 2021

  3. Maritime Labour Convention

    Mozambique ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    28 May 2021

    Mozambique became the 98th Member State of the ILO to ratify the Convention.

  4. Convention No. 184 and Convention No. 185

    Iraq ratifies agriculture and seafarers Conventions

    27 May 2021

  5. Forced Labour

    Saudi Arabia reinforces its commitment to eradicate forced labour in all its forms

    27 May 2021

    Saudi Arabia ratifies the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention

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