The ILO's primary goal is to promote social justice by guaranteeing workers' rights. To do so, the Organization has set up a system of international labour standards (ILS) covering all matters related to work. In today's globalized economy, these standards are attracting growing interest because they establish an international legal framework for ensuring that globalization provides benefits for all.

All the Centre's training touches explicitly or implicitly upon ILS. It aims to make the international labour standards system, backed by governments, employers and workers, more effective. In particular, our training aims to: strengthen participation by governments and the social partners in the ILS system; improve the application of standards; strengthen the link between their application and economic and social development; and enhance the ability of national authorities to draw upon ILS in producing legislation and case law.

Training subjects include:

• ILS and constitutional procedures
• Freedom of association and collective bargaining
• Forced labour and trafficking
• Child labour
• Equality in employment and occupation
• Indigenous and tribal peoples
• Maritime labour standards
• ILS for judges and lawyers
• ILS for journalists and media professionals
• ILS and socially responsible entreprises
• Labour law drafting and reform
• Labour conflict prevention and labour dispute settlement

The following training units run activities in this area of expertise:

Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
Enterprise, Microfinance and Local Development Programme
Social Dialogue
Workers' Activities
Gender and Non-Discrimination Programme