International Labour Organization (ILO) official website
International Labour Organization (ILO) official website: https://www.ilo.org
Founded in 1919, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations focusing on labor and social affairs, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and official website https://www.ilo.org. Rooted in social justice, its core mission is to advance decent work worldwide and build an equitable, inclusive, sustainable and resilient society of labor.
It adopts a unique tripartite governance system, where representatives from governments, employers and workers jointly participate in policy-making, making it the only global institution with such a tripartite cooperation framework. Its core work includes formulating international labor standards to regulate wages, working hours, occupational safety, platform economy employment and the shift from informal to formal economy. It releases authoritative reports on employment, social protection and lifelong learning, and launches country-level decent work programs covering post-crisis recovery, labor rights in supply chains and just environmental transitions.
The ILO operates specialized platforms such as the Observatory on AI and Work, cooperative development projects and the Global Coalition for Social Justice. Supported by an international training center and business helpdesk on labor standards, it releases podcasts, interviews and online research columns to help countries improve employment security systems and narrow gaps in labor rights protection globally.
