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International Labour Organization
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International Labour Organization

Specialized agency of the United Nations, originally established in 1919, which formulates international labout standards in such areas as freedom of association, wages, hours and conditions of work, social insurance, and industrial safety. It has a tripartite structure in which representatives of governments, employers and workers participate. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969 on its 50th anniversary.



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In Tanzania, for instance, a private group called the Good Hope Center, which works with the ILO, finds child laborers and gets them into school.
Lost childhoods: millions of African children are forced to do ... by Price, Sean / Junior Scholastic
The ILO estimates that 48 million children work in Latin America, half of them under the age of 14.
Clock watchers: working kids keep poor Latin American families ... by Silicon, Jack / Latin Trade
At a special screening at UN Headquarters in New York, Zohreh Tabatabai, Director of the ILO Department of Communications and Public Information, urged people not to focus purely on the figures and statistics, as shocking as they are.
The inhumanity of human trafficking by Bolton, Sally / UN Chronicle
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