ILO

A delivery rider in Mumbai works fourteen hours, a garment worker in Dhaka is paid less than a man doing the same job, and a factory in another country cuts corners to sell cheaper. Who sets the floor for how workers are treated across borders? In 1919, the victorious powers decided that unfair labour conditions in one country threaten peace everywhere, and they created the International Labour Organisation to set that floor.

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The International Labour Organisation (ILO), founded in 1919, is a specialised agency of the UN with a tripartite structure of governments, employers and workers that adopts international labour Conventions and Recommendations and supervises their application.

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