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Role of International Organizations in Driving Rule-Making: The Example of the International Labour Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

Tomi Kohiyama
Tomi Kohiyama*
Affiliation:
International Labour Office.
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Throughout its one hundred years of existence, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has taken a dynamic approach to the implementation of its mandate to achieve social justice through the adoption of international labor standards. This approach is exemplified in three ILO declarations: the Declaration concerning the aims and purposes of the International Labour Organization, 1944 (Declaration of Philadelphia); the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 1998 (the 1998 Declaration) and the Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, 2008 (the 2008 Declaration). These declarations contain expressions of renewed commitment by the ILO's tripartite membership toward the universal relevance of the Organization's constitutional mandate and its means of action (standards, development cooperation, and research), and by the ILO to support its members. These declarations have in addition adapted the vision of the ILO mission to contemporary circumstances for a better impact. As noted by Professors Alvarez and Burci, the ILO is a good example of a long-standing international public organization reinventing itself with very few amendments to its founding charter.

Type
Rule-Making by International Organizations
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 112 , 2018 , pp. 278 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2019 

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Footnotes

The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Labour Organization.

References

1 The texts of the declarations are available online at http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/how-the-ilo-works/departments-and-offices/jur/legal-instruments/WCMS_428589/lang--en/index.htm.

2 Information on the MLC, 2006 is available online at http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/maritime-labour-convention/lang--en/index.htm.

3 The Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29); the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87); the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98); the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100); the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105); the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111); the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138); and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

4 Information available online at http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/WCMS_449687/lang--en/index.htm.

5 Information available online at http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/100/lang--en/index.htm.