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DOCUMENT RESUMEED 072 267TITLEINSTITUTIONPUB DATENOTEFORS PRICEDESCRIPTORSIDENTIFIERSVT 018 751Activities of the ILO, 1971. Report of theDirector-General (Part 2) to the International LabourConference, Fifty-seventh Session, 1972.International Labour Office, Geneva (Switzerland).7292p.MF-80.65 HC- 3.29Action Research; Civil Liberties; Conference Reports;Employment; Human Development; *InternationalOrganizations; *International Programs; *LaborProblems; *Labor Standards; Resource Materials;Vocational Development; Vocational Education; *WorldProblemsInternational Labour Conference; *InternationalLabour OrganizationABSTRACTDespite unprecedented political and financialdifficulties, the International Labour Organization'sDirector-General reported significant progress in all fields at theFifty-seventh Session of the International Labour Conference,convened in Switzerland in 1972. An action research program in worldemployment problems is in progress, with a mission to Ceylon alreadycompleted and missions in Iran, Kenya, Latin America, and Asia underway. Labor standards were adopted to protect against industrialpoisonings and occupational cancer. In addition, work has been doneconcerning paid educational leave, freedom of association, andcollective bargaining. Operational activities have increased by 25percent, including work with various aid-giving agencies and theUnited Nations Development Programme. The ten topical chapters ofthis report discuss: (1) Trade, Development, Cooperation, Employmentand Labour, (2) World Employment Programme, (3) Development of HumanResources, (4) Conditions of Work and Life, (5) Social InstitutionsDevelopment, (6) Human Rights and International Labor Standards, (7)Regional and Industrial Activities, (8) Technical Cooperation, (9)the. International Institute for Labour Studies and InternationalCentre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training, and (10) a NewLong-Term Plan. A policy statement and action taken on the conferenceresolutions are appended. (AG)

0Nr.--C\JNC)U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.EDUCATION & WELFAREOFFICE OF EDUCATIONTHIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO.DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROMTHE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPP':IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILYREPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICYACTIVITIES OF THE ILO1971Report of the Director - General -(Part 2)to the International Labour Conference,Fifty-seventh Session, 1972INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICEGENEVA, 1972

The designations of countries employed, which are in conformity with United Nationspractice, and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the International Labour Office concerningthe legal status of any country or territory or of its authorities, or concerning thedelimitation of its frontiersPRINTED BY " LA TRIBUNE DE GENEVE ", GENEVA (SWITZERLAND)

CONTENTSPageINTRODUCTION1CHAPTER I: Trade, Development Co-operation, Employment and Labour3CHAPTER II: World Employment Programme6Employment Strategy MissionsRegional Employment Promotion Teams69Assistance to Governments in Promoting Employment Growth inSpecific SectorsResearchCHAPTER III: Development of Human Resources111215Vocational TrainingManagement Development15IV: Conditions of Work and LifeOccupational Safety and HealthSocial SecurityRemuneration and Conditions of Work2212CHAPTER V: Social Institutions Development30CHAPTERLabour AdministrationSocial Participation and Labour RelationsWorkers' EducationCo-operative, Rural and Related InstitutionsCHAPTER VI: Human Rights and International Labour StandardsStandard Setting and Application of ConventionsDiscriminationFreedom of AssociationCHAPTER VII: Regional and Industrial Activities182528303233343636383840Regional ActivitiesIndustrial Activities4045VIII: Technical Co-operationTechnical Assistance Component of the UNDPSpecial Fund Component of the UNDP49CHAPTER5152

IVACTIVITIES OF THE ILOPageCountry ProgrammingILO Regular Budget Technical Co-operationTrust Funds and Bilateral Aid ProgrammesUnited Nations Volunteers ProgrammeUnited Nations Fund for Population ActivitiesInternational Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentCHAPTER IX: International Institute for Labour Studies and InternationalCentre for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training . . .International Institute for Labour Studies5354545555565757International Centre for Advanced Technical and VocationalTraining59CHAPTER X: A New Long-Term Plan62APPENDIX I: ILO Policy Statement for the Third Session of the UnitedNations Conference on Trade and Development, Adopted by theGoverning Body at Its 185th Session (February-March 1972)64APPENDIX II: Action Taken on the Resolutions Adopted by the International Labour Conference at Its 51st to 56th Sessions . . .71

INTRODUCTIONNineteen-seventy-one remained a year of abundant vitality, solidachievement and remarkable unity of purpose for the ILO.Despite exceptional, and indeed unprecedented, political and financialdifficulties, the ILO remained true to its trust.There was significant progress in all its main fields of work.The World Employment Programme is increasingly becoming areality. There have been further comprehensive employment strategymissions. Such a mission to Ceylon successfully completed its work andits report has been submitted to the Government; similar missions arenow at work in Iran and Kenya, and preparations for further suchmissions arc in an advanced stage. The work of the regional employmentteams for Latin America and Asia is becoming more practically effective.A broad and ambitious action-oriented research programme on worldemployment problems is now in progress.There have been major developments in the standard-setting workof the ILO and important standards were adopted by the 56th (1971)Session of the International Labour Conference. The Workers' Representatives Convention and Recommendation are a major addition to theILO standards concerning freedom of association and collective bargaining. The Benzene 'Convention and Recommendation are an impor-tant addition to the ILO standards concerning protection againstindustrial poisonings. Preparatory work for Conference action on thecontrol and prevention of occupational- cancer and on paid educationalleave has now been completed.The number of ratifications has risen, in comparison with the figuresgiven in last year's Report, by 131 to reach 3,826; 59 per cent of theratifications of Conventions now come from the developing world, theyare an important contribution to raising labour standards throughout theworld.Operational activities under the United Nations Development Programme continued to expand; relations with other multilateral, and witha number of bilateral, aid-giving agencies were greatly strengthened. Thescale of the ILO operational programmes increased by some 25 per centin 1971.

2ACTIVITIES OF THE ILOAmong major publications issued were Volume I of the new Encyclopcedia of Occupational Health and Safety.The African Advisory Committee mapped out new paths of ILOaction in Africa, and a highly successful Regional Conference was heldin Asia.The Joint Committee on the Public Service laid a solid foundationfor a major departure in the work of the ILO.Three Industrial Committee meetings proved the continued vitalityand usefulness of ILO action for their respective industries.An in-depth review of the ILO social security programme has beensubmitted to the Governing Body, and in-depth reviews of the conditionsof work and workers' education programmes are in preparation.A preliminary draft of a new long-term plan has been submitted tothe Governing Body.Although the absence of any payment from the Member of theOrganisation assessed for 25 per cent of its budget represented a severeloss of income which made necessary major cutbacks of all the activitiesof the Organisation and resulted in the complete exhaustion of theWorking Capital Fund, the ILO completed the year without recourse toborrowing or the incurment of debt. This result has been achieved onlyat a heavy cost of immediate effectiveness in tackling problems ofimmense urgency. There has been a severe loss of momentum as theresult of the acute financial difficulties which continued throughout theperiod under review and which at the present time threaten to havestill graver consequences, but these difficulties have not been allowed todestroy the sense and resoluteness of purpose of the ILO. It is unnecessaryto elaborate further on these matters in the present Report, as the Conference will have before it, in the Finance Committee of GovernmentRepresentatives, information concerning the financial situation.The Governing Body has shown throughout a sustained determinationthat the ILO wilt-remain loyal to its task of ensuring the right of " allhuman beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, . to pursue both theirmaterial well-being and their spiritual development in conditions offreedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity."WILFRED JENKSGeneva, 20 March 1972.

CHAPTER ITRADE, DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION,EMPLOYMENT AND LABOURProblems of international trade and their effect on employment andliving and working conditions figured prominently in the discussions atthe 56th Session of the Conference in 1971. President Senghor of Senegal,in his address to the Conference, emphasised that the two problems ofparamount importance in the developing world, which were " dialectically connected ", were: " world trade, the balance of which must beexpressed in altogether new terms in order to limit the tormentingproblem of the deterioration of the terms of trade; and productiveemployment for millions of young people leaving school or migratingfrom rural areas ". He called upon the ILO to propose decisive measuresfor the solution of these problems. In its Conclusions on the WorldEmployment Programme, the Conference called for " the promotion of arapid liberalisation of trade policies through the reduction or eliminationof tariff and non-tariff barriers to imports into industrialised countriesof goods produced in developing countries, with due regard to thestabilisation of commodity prices ". In a resolution which it adoptedconcerning relations between international trade and employment, theConference called for a study on the relationship between the principles,standards and practices of international trade and the World Employment Programme, and requested that contacts be established with theappropriate organs and bodies of the United Nations and GATT " toensure that full consideration is given to the effects on employment,wages and conditions of life in economic development and trade duringthe Second Development Decade when they establish and put into effecttheir own programmes ".In response to these preoccupations expressed at the Conference, theGoverning Body, at its 184th (November 1971) Session, had a fullrespect of trade, aid, employment anddiscussion of the ILO's rolelabour. At its 185th (February-March 1972) Session the GoverningBody adopted a policy statement to be transmitted to the Third UnitedNations Conference on Trade and Development .COncerning trade,development co-operation, employment and labour in the SecondDevelopment Decade.

14ACTIVITIES OF THE ILOThe full text of this statement is found in Appendix I of the presentReport. It recalls that the International Labour Organisation is pledged,under its Constitution, to full co-operation with all international bodiesentrusted with a share of the responsibility for promoting the economicand social advancement of the less developed regions, assuring greater.stability in world prices of primary products and promoting a high andsteady volume of international trade. It affirms that, by reason of itstripartite organisation, its long tradition in dealing with social mattersand its constitutional responsibility for examining international economicand financial measures from the point of view of their social effects, theILO offers a suitable forum for studying, discussing and seeking solutionsto important problems involved in the relationship between international trade, development co-operation, employment and labour.The statement stresses that measures for the liberalisation of tradeand international co-operation should not only appreciably raise thelevel of employment, but contribute to a fairer distribution of incomeand wealth, promote social justice and the efficiency of production,improve income security, extend and improve education, public health,nutrition, housing and social protection, and safeguard the environment.Though measures to liberalise trade may create short-term problems ofdisplacement and market disruption, their longer-term effect may bebeneficial to workers, employers and consumers in both exporting andimporting countries, provided that they are integrated into co-ordinatedpolicies for development and encourage full and productive employment.The statement indicates practical measures to deal with the relationship between trade liberalisation and working and living conditions. Itstresses that employers' and workers' organisations can and do in manycases play an important part in preparing and implementing developmentplans which must allow for changes in international trade in the developing and the developed countries; and that they could negotiate measuresfor the application of national and international policies and promotethe implementation of such measures by all available means, includinginformation and training for their members.The statement reaffirms that the ILO will help to achieve the essentialobjectives of the International Development Strategythe promotion of" a better and more effective system of international co-operation wherebythe prevailing disparities in the world may be banished and prosperitysecured for all ". It recalls that the ILO is at present arranging, in co-operation with other international organisations, especially the UNCTAD,for the preparation of a number of studies in the field of the employmentand labour implications of trade and development, the results ofwhich will be submitted when appropriate to tripartite ILO meetings.

--TRADE, DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION, EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR5It specifies that the ILO will continue to support studies aiming at thedevelopment of such labour-intensive techniques as are not less productive than more capital-intensive techniques; that the ILO will givespecial attention to the implementation of its Employment Policy Convention and Recommendation, 1964 (No. 122), and of the resolutionconcerning social problems raised by multinational undertakings,adopted by the Conference at its 56th Session in 1971; that it will streng-then elements in the ILO's technical co-operation programmes thatcontribute directly to export promotion; and that it will make everyeffort in its educational activities- to deal with questions of the relationship between trade on the one hand and employment and-conditions ofwork and life on the other.In the Governing Body, Government, Employer and Worker members, from advanced and developing countries alike, expressed broadagreement on the fundamental principles set forth in the policy statement,but a number of Governments and the Employer members did so subjectto reservations which are set forth in a Note of Reservations appendedto the policy statement.All three groups agreed that the liberalisation of world trade wouldmake a most important contribution to employment and the improve-ment of conditions of work and life throughout the world and thatsuccess in achievement of this end would require increases in productionand productivity, a fairer distribution of the resultant wealth in allcountries, the sharing of technical knoW-how and changes in the international division of labour. It was likewise agreed that such developmentswill inevitably involve stresses and difficulties, particularly when workersand employers are adversely affected by changes in the location andnature of economic activities resulting from new patterns of international trade. Since worldwide social and economic progress inevitablyinvolves such changes, policies and strategies should be worked out inadvanced and developing countries alike to facilitate adaptation to thenew conditions, protect national economies from sudden disruption andalleviate the burdens falling on those most affected by the immediateimpact of trade liberalisation.On the proposal of the Workers' group, the Governing Body decidedto consider at its November 1972 Session the establishment of a newprocedure designed to promote the universal observance of fair labourstandards, on the basis of international labour Conventions and Recommendations, with a view to ensuring that the benefits of trade liberalisation would find adequate reflection in improved living and workingconditions.

CHAPTER HWORLD EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMEThe progress of the World Employment Programme, which has beensubstantial, has been guided by the Conclusions adopted by the Conference in 1971, which called upon member States to make " vigorousefforts " to achieve the objective of raising substantially the level ofemployment, by applying the policies set out in the Employment PolicyConvention and Recommendation; 1964 (No. 122), and in the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Develop-ment Decade, stressed the importance of effective participation ofemployers' and workers' organisations in the formulation and implementation ot national employment policies, and called upon these organisations to " promote understanding and acceptance by their membershipof the employment objective and of those policies for achieving it that areof particular concern to them ". The Conclusions envisaged furtherefforts to achieve a more precise formulation of the employment objectiveof the International Development Strategy; regular reviews, within theframework of the Second Development Decade, of progress in the fieldof employment; and a co-ordinated and concerted approach by theILO and other organisations. They called upon the ILO to promote inmember States and other organisations an awareness of the importanceof the employment objective and of a comprehensive approach to employ-ment planning; to conduct research to assist in finding solutions topractical problems of employment policy; to give high priority, in itstechnical co-operation programme, to assistance to governments in theadoption and implementation of employment policies; to evaluate theexperience of each rgional team, of comprehensive employment strategymissions and other new forms of technical co-operation in this field; andto devote attention to certain employment problems in industrialisedcountries.EMPLOYMINT STRATEGY MISSIONSColombiaThe recommendations of the first comprehensive employmentstrategy mission, which visited Colombia in 1970, and of a meeting of

WORLD EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME7representatives of various agencies convened by the UNDP in January1971 at the request of the Colombia Government to help it in carryingout a programme of action on the lines recommended by the mission,are reflected in the country programme for Colombia approved at theJanuary 1972 Session of the Governing Council of the UNDP. Thecountry programme includes projects for manpower planning and forthe development of small-scale industries.CeylonA second comprehensive employment strategy mission visited Ceylonin 1971 at the request of the Prime Minister of that country. Like theColombian mission, it was organised on a multidisciplinary basis, andbenefited from the collaboration of a number of other internationalorganisations. It was financed by the UNDP as part of the larger regionalemployment project for Asia which was formally approved by theUNDP Governing Council in January 1971.The mission established contact and obtained the advi

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE. GENEVA, 1972. The designations of countries employed, which are in conformity with United Nations practice, and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expres-sion of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the International Labour Office concerning

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