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SUNS #4626 Tuesday 14 March 2000

south-north development monitor SUNS [Email Edition]

contents

Labour: ILO's first follow-up report on core labour standards (Chakravarthi Raghavan, Geneva)

Trade: Clinton, business face major fight in Congress over China (IPS, Washington)

Environment: Kenya and India challenge CITES on ivory trade (IPS, Nairobi)

Finance: Bank mega-merger changes rules of the game (IPS, Berlin)

United Nations: Humanitarian intervention remains a divisive issue (IPS, New York)

Development: How far from information revolution to poverty removal (IPS, Kuala Lumpur)


LABOUR: ILO'S FIRST FOLLOW-UP REPORT ON CORE LABOUR STANDARDS

Geneva, 12 Mar (Chakravarthi Raghavan) -- An increasing awareness among all ILO members, about the fundamental principles and rights at work and their importance for social and economic development has been a key direct effect of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work adopted in 1998, a group of Expert-Advisers have said.

In presenting this view in the review of annual reports by States which have not yet ratified one or more of the ILO's seven fundamental Conventions (usually referred to as core labour standards), the expert-advisers have said that whether they had ratified the conventions or not, countries often faced the same challenges: implementing principles if they have not yet ratified the conventions, and giving effect to the provisions of the Conventions if they have.

 


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