The International Labor Organization (ILO)

   The distinctive feature of the ILO - tripartism, its tripartite structure, within which negotiations between governments, workers and entrepreneurs. Delegates of these three groups are represented, and confer on an equal footing at all levels of the organization.

   The supreme body of the ILO is the International Labor Conference, which adopted all the ILO. Delegates of the International Conference are the two representatives from the government and one, respectively, from the most representative organizations of workers and employers each State Party. The ILO Governing Body, are also organized on a tripartite basis, is the executive body of the ILO. International Labor Office serves as the secretariat of the ILO. ILO adopts Convention and Recommendation on labor issues. In addition to conventions and recommendations were adopted three declarations: The Philadelphia Declaration of 1944 on the ILO's goals and objectives of the ILO (now included in the ILO Constitution), the 1977 ILO Declaration on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, as well as the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Rights and Principles at Work. Convention subject to ratification by participating countries and an international treaty, binding for execution in the event of ratification. The recommendations are not legally binding acts. Even if the State has not ratified a particular convention, it is bound by virtue of membership in the ILO and its adherence to the ordinance on the four fundamental principles at work enshrined in the ILO Declaration of 1998. These principles of freedom of association and collective bargaining, prohibition of discrimination in employment, the eradication of forced labor, and prohibition of child labor. These four principles are devoted to the eight ILO Conventions (respectively - Convention number 87 and 98, 100 and 111, 29 and 105, 138 and 182) are called fundamental. The said Convention, ratified by an overwhelming majority of the world and for their enforcement of ILO monitors especially closely.

   Text of ILO conventions and recommendations in English, Russian, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Arabic, collected in a database of international labor standards of the ILO.

   The ILO can not be forced to perform even ratified Conventions. Nevertheless, there are controls over the implementation of ILO Conventions and Recommendations, the main essence of which is to study the circumstances of the alleged violations of labor rights and to give them international exposure in the case of ignoring the long-term observations of the ILO State party. This control is exercised by the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, the Committee of the Governing Council on Freedom of Association and the Conference Committee on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations.

   In exceptional cases, in accordance with Article 33 of the ILO, the International Labor Conference may encourage their members to implement the impact on the state, especially maliciously violating international labor standards. In practice, this was done only once - in 2001 against Myanmar for decades been subjected to krititke for the use of forced labor and refused to cooperate on this issue with the ILO. As a result, several states have applied to economic sanctions against Myanmar, and she was forced to make some steps towards the ILO.