Organisation: International Labour Organization (ILO)

The ILO is a United Nations agency based in Geneva that is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its  main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strenghten dialogue in handling work related issues.

The ILO is the only tripartite U.N. agency with government, employer, and worker representatives. This tripartite structure makes the ILO a unique forum in which the governments and the social partners of the economy of its 183 Member States can freely and openly debate and elaborate labour standards and policies.

The International Labour Office is the permanent secretariat of the International Labour Organization, its operational headquarters. Administration and management are decentralized in regional, area, and branch offices in more than 40 countries under the leadership of a Director-General.