Labour Human Rights: a symbiosis of International Law

Canessa Montejo M.F. · Trabajo y Derecho (2025)

Resumen

Throughout the twentieth century, the international protection of employee was a fundamental task of international labour law. The ILO Constitution (1919) establishes that its purpose is to achieve social justice for humanity, by means of international labour instruments – Conventions and Recommendations – that guarantee the adoption of the necessary measures to make them effective within national States, and its supervisory mechanisms – regulatory and general – give the international body the capacity to supervise compliance with them. The international success of the ILO led the United Nations to reproduce this model in international human rights law, so that it can be said that the pillars of international human rights law come from international labour law. Today, however, we are in a different period, where it is rather labour human rights that are redefining the content and protection of labour rights.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú