ILO Conventions

The Core Labour Standards enshrined in the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and
Rights at Work (1998) are the basic minimum human rights enshrined within the
ILO’s eight specialized conventions. The eight core Conventions are:

·      Forced Labour (1930)

·      Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize (1948)

·      Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining & Equal Remuneration (1951)

·      Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951

·      Abolition of Forced Labour (1957)

·      Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) (1958)

·      Minimum Age Convention (1973)

     Elimination of the Worst forms of Child Labour (1999)