Q. Consider the following statements:
1. Minimum Age Convention of ILO is the only labor convention to have achieved universal ratification.
2. India has ratified all of ILO’s 8 core conventions.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: D
Notes:
Convention 182 of ILO:
- Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor has recently achieved universal ratification, following ratification by the Kingdom of Tonga.
- For the first time in the ILO’s history, an International Labor Convention has been ratified by all member States.
- The Convention is the most rapidly ratified Convention in the history of the Organization, since its adoption 21 years ago by the International Labor Conference.
- Universal ratification of Convention 182 is an historic first that means that all children now have legal protection against the worst forms of child labor.
- The two ILO Conventions on child labor are Convention No.138 on Minimum Age and Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. These Conventions are “fundamental” Conventions.
- This means that, under the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, all ILO member States have an obligation to respect, promote and realize the abolition of child labor, even if they have not ratified the Conventions in question.
- India has ratified 6/8 core conventions of ILO (Freedom of Association and Protection of Right to Organized Convention (No.87) and Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention (No.98) are not yet ratified by India).
Source: ForumIAS
