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Like the ILO, the United Nations has a regular reporting mechanism in
which countries (state parties to U.N. treaties) submit reports detailing
how they are meeting the requirements of various U.N. treaties. Seven
U.N. treaties contain provisions that are similar to the provisions in
the core labor standards plus acceptable conditions of work:
. the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
. the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict,
. the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography,
. the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights,
. the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
. the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, and
. the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women.
Information on the ratification of these treaties is included in the
committee's database. Reports submitted to the United Nations by
countries that have ratified these covenants and conventions often contain
useful information regarding the countries' laws related to international
labor standards.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights produces country reports
that sometimes include workers' rights issues. For example, the high
commissioner's oversight of the peace process in Guatemala (United Nations
Verification Mission in Guatemala, 2002) has generated a series of detailed
reports that cover abuses of labor rights, among other human rights violations.
Many of the country reports submitted to the United Nations, as well as
specialized U.N. committee reports with commentary, are available to the
public on-line. These reports are typically not focused on
employment issues, but they can be useful to supplement the information
available from the ILO, particularly for countries that have ratified a
U.N. convention but not the related ILO convention. As appropriate,
we have drawn on these reports for information or links provided in this
database.
Literature cited:
United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala. (2002, January
18). Informe de MINUGUA para el grupo consultivo sobre Guatemala.
Available: http://www.minugua.guate.net/Informes/OTROS%20INF/OTROSINFO.htm
[October 14, 2003.]
From National Research Council, 2004.
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