International Labour Organization, Declaration on Fundamental Principles

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

Statement

By 

Mr. Pakseresht

Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran

 Before 

International Labour Organization

344^th Session 

Governing Body 

GB.344/INS/4–Review of annual reports under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work

Statement on behalf of ASPAG

Geneva, 14- 26 March 2022

I am delivering this statement on behalf of the Asia Pacific group. 

ASPAG thanks the Office for the report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at work for 2020 and 2021. 

The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and related follow-up reaffirms the common commitment of the member States to "respect, to promote and to realize in good faith" the right of workers and employers to freedom of association and the effective right to collective bargaining, and to work toward the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour, the effective abolition of child labour and the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation. ASPAG thanks office for establishing new online reporting system and we are pleased to hear that the new system has increased significantly the reporting rates for the period under review. 

The universal ratification of Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour and the attainment of the objective of 50 ratifications for the 2014 Protocol are two significant achievements for the period covered by the report, for which we are quite thankful of the efforts made by the office.

The review highlighted the challenges that member states are faced with concerning ratification and implementation of the principle of freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. While slight increase in reporting rate of the two conventions is promising, further efforts are needed in terms of analysing the ratification challenges in connection with the national, legal and socio-economic circumstances of the member states.  

We commend the fact that Convention No. 29 is the most ratified convention, as it provides hope for the eradication of child labour in the world of work in near future. we encourage remaining non-ratifying member states in making this aspiration a reality.

The review reaffirmed once again the commitment of non-ratifying member states to the realization of the fundamental principles and rights at work and the ILO needs to play its important role in fostering these commitments to their full institutional capacity in the framework of related conventions. With this comments, ASPAG supports the decision point. 

Thank you chair.