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Overview of ILO

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then became the first specialized agency of the United Nations in 1946 (International Labour Organization, 2003). The general and broad purpose of the ILO is to promote the  rights of workers throughout the world, an objective it accomplishes through the formats of Conventions and Recommendations (International Labour Organization, 2003). An example of the Conventions the ILO adopted was  Convention 87 adopted in 1948, the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (International Labour Organization, 2003; International Labour Review, 1998). Put another way, the major  purpose and goal of this organization is to "build up a comprehensive code of law and practices that will serve as a model and a stimulus for national action in  its 169 member countries" (Overman, 1994, p. 59). The basic rights the ILO addresses include: "freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of  opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues" (International Labour Organization, 2003). Towards this end, the organization provides member countries with technical  assistance in the following areas: * employment policy (International Labour Organization, 2003). * working conditions (International Labour Organization, 2003). * labour administration (International Labour Organization, 2003). * management development (International  Labour Organization, 2003). * labour law and industrial relations (International Labour Organization, 2003). * vocational training and vocational rehabilitation (International Labour Organization, 2003). * social security (International Labour Organization, 2003).  * labour statistics and occupational safety and health (International Labour Organization, 2003). * cooperatives (International Labour Organization, 2003). The organization states that it has a "unique tripartite structure with workers  and employers participating as equal partners with governments in the work of its governing organs" (International Labour Organization, 2003). There were a number of original purposes or motivations for the