INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

ORGANISATION
 The International Labour Organization (ILO) is
devoted to advancing opportunities for women
and men to obtain decent and productive work
in conditions of freedom, equity, security and
human dignity.
Its main aims are to promote rights at work,
encourage decent employment opportunities,
enhance social protection and strengthen
dialogue in handling work-related issues.
 The Institution
• The ILO was founded in 1919, in the wake of a
destructive war, to pursue a vision based on the
premise that universal, lasting peace can be
established only if it is based upon decent treatment of
working people. The ILO became the first specialized
agency of the UN in 1946.
• The ILO is the only 'tripartite' United Nations agency in
that it brings together representatives of governments,
employers and workers to jointly shape policies and
programmes.
• Juan Somavia is the Director General, ILO
 The Members
• The ILO is the global body responsible for
drawing up and overseeing international labor
standards. Working with its Member States,
the ILO seeks to ensure that labor standards
are respected in practice as well as principle.
• Member States : 182 countries
Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil,
China, Chile, Croatia, Egypt, Ghana, Hungary,
Uganda, Quwait
 The Sessions
• The ILO regularly holds meetings at the
international, regional, national and sectoral
level to examine social and labor issues of
interest to governments, employers' and
workers' organizations.
• 97th Session of the International Labor
Conference held from 28 May - 13 June
2008
• to address the report on freedom of
association, the strategic challenges to
decent work, and the long term agenda of
the ILO.
• The member States of the ILO
meet at the International
Labour Conference, held every
year in Geneva, Switzerland, in
the month of June.

• Each member State is

represented by a delegation
consisting of two government
delegates, an employer
delegate, a worker delegate,
and their respective advisers.
(Employer and Worker
delegates are nominated in
agreement with the most
representative national
organizations of employers
and workers.)
Governing Body

The Governing Body is the executive body of

the International Labor Office (the Office is the
secretariat of the Organization). It meets three
times a year, in March, June and November. It
takes decisions on ILO policy, decides the
agenda of the International Labor Conference,
adopts the draft Programme and Budget of the
Organization for submission to the Conference,
and elects the Director-General
 The Composition
• The Governing Body is composed of
28 government representatives, 14
workers' group representatives, and
14 employers' group representatives.
• 10 of the government seats are held
permanently by Brazil, China, France,
Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the
Russian Federation, the United
Kingdom, and the United States
 ILO’s Response to Child
Labour
• The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child
Labour (IPEC) was created in 1992 with the overall goal of the
progressive elimination of child labour, which was to be achieved
through strengthening the capacity of countries to deal with the
problem and promoting a worldwide movement to combat child
labour. IPEC currently has operations in 88 countries, with an
annual expenditure on technical cooperation projects that reached
over US$74 million in 2006. It is the largest programme of its kind
globally and the biggest single operational programme of the ILO.

• IPEC's work to eliminate child labour is an important facet of the

ILO's Decent Work Agenda., providing them with education and
assisting their families with training and employment opportunities
contribute directly to creating decent work for adults.
 Response to HIV
Under the name ILOAIDS, the ILO created the Code
of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work as a
document providing principles for "policy
development and practical guidelines for
programmes at enterprise, community, and national
levels." Including:
• prevention of HIV
• management and mitigation of the impact of AIDS
on the world of work
• care and support of workers infected and affected
by HIV/AIDS
• elimination of stigma and discrimination on the
basis of real or perceived HIV status.
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