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Basic Principles and Purposes of

International Labour Organization

and Selected Contemporary Labour-related Issues

on International Labour Standards

Professor Emeritus Vitit Muntarbhorn

Abstract

The content of this article is divided into two separated but intermingled parts.
The first part is based on a presentation delivered by the author at a seminar held on
3 November 2020 at the Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases, Labour Division.

The second part is derived from a special interview with the author by a working group
of the Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases on 10 February 2021 at the Faculty

of Law, Chulalongkorn University.
In the first part, the author discusses the role of the International Labour

Organization (ILO) which was founded in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles and was
later annexed as a specialized agency of the United Nations. One of the key objectives
of the ILO is to promote international labour standards (ILS) through its instruments,

Conventions and Recommendations, and social dialogue. The author further explains
the structure of the ILO and salient features of the ILO supervisory mechanism, both
regular system of supervision and special procedure.

In the second part, the author, as a Committee of Expert on the Application of

Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), shares his opinion concerning selected
contemporary labour-related issues, including, the role of the ILO in global affairs, the
problems regarding the ILO Conventions No.87 and No.98, migrant workers, forced

labour, trade war and protectionism.

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