Why an ILO Declaration Now?
The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up was adopted at the 86th Session of the International Labour Conference in 1998. It has its roots in the history of the ILO for the implementation of core workers’ rights. At the International Labour Conference in 1994, the Director-General stated that the guarantee of fundamental rights should allow the social partners to claim freely their fair share of economic progress generated by the liberalization of trade. As a result of its efforts, the ILO influenced the agenda of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, where ILO core labour standards were recognized as universal values. On that occasion, the world’s heads of state reaffirmed that there are basic workers rights, which are expressed in some ILO International Labour Standards (slide), known as the ILO core Conventions. There was also a growing recognition that the goals contained in the core Conventions were still far from bein
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