Mark Yannone - Issues - Foreign Aid - Foreign Aid Budget - International Labor Organization (ILO)

Issues - Foreign Aid - Foreign Aid Budget - International Labor Organization (ILO)

"Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The International Labor Organization is a specialized agency within the United Nations. The mission of the ILO is the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. The ILO was founded in 1919. It is the only surviving agency or organization remaining from the Treaty of Versailles which brought the League of Nations into being. The ILO was the first specialized agency of the United Nations beginning in 1946.

The ILO determines international labor standards. It makes recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labor rights, It works for freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labor, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions in work related issues. It provides technical assistance relative to:

- vocational training and vocational rehabilitation;
- employment policy;
- labour administration;
- labour law and industrial relations;
- working conditions;
- management development;
- cooperatives;
- social security; and
- labour statistics and occupational safety and health.

The ILO promotes the development of independent employers' and workers' organizations. It provides training and advisory services to those organizations. The ILO has a unique tripartite structure with workers and employers participating as equal partners with governments in the work of its governance.

The current Director-General for the ILO is Mr. Juan Somavia.

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