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Convention Concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (Int'L Lab. Org.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

Julinda Beqiraj
Julinda Beqiraj*
Affiliation:
MauriceWohl Senior Research Fellow in European Law, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL).
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On June 21, 2019, the International Law Organization (ILO) adopted the groundbreaking Convention No. 190 concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (C190) and the accompanying Recommendation on the same topic (R206). ILO conventions are legally binding instruments, once ratified by states, while recommendations provide advice and guidance. The result of two years of negotiations by ILO members—governments, workers’ representatives, and employers’ organizations—is an international treaty setting out standards that are aimed at ending violence and harassment in the world of work. In its “Women, Business and the Law 2018” study, the World Bank reports that there is a lack of legal protection against harassment at work in 70 percent of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa, half of the economies in East Asia and the Pacific, and one-third of those in Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting an estimated 500 million working-age women.

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International Legal Documents
Information
International Legal Materials , Volume 58 , Issue 6 , December 2019 , pp. 1167 - 1176
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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1 Convention Concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work, 108th Conference Session, Geneva, June 21, 2019 [hereinafter C190]; Recommendation Concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work, 108th Conference Session, Geneva, June 21, 2019 [hereinafter R206].

2 Id. pmbl., ¶ 6.

3 For an overview, see ILO Report V(1) Ending Violence and Harassment Against Women and Men in the World of Work, International Labour Conference, 107th Session 2018, Section 3.1.

4 C190, supra note 1, art. 3.

5 Id. art. 10(f); R206, supra note 1, ¶ 18.

6 C190, supra note 1, art. 5.

7 Id. art. 7.

8 Id. art. 8.

9 Id. arts. 9, 11.

10 R206, supra note 1, ¶ 8.b.

11 C190, supra note 1, art. 10; R206, supra note 1, ¶ 14.

12 International Labour Organization, Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, Apr. 1, 1919, arts. 19, 22–23.

13 Id. arts. 24–25.

14 Id. arts. 26–34.

15 ILO, “ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment: Five Key Questions” (June 28, 2019), https://www.ilo.org/global/aboutthe-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_711891/lang-en/index.htm.