Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch (FUNDAMENTALS)
Today, in the world:
160 million
children are victims of child labour and 79 million of whom are in hazardous work
50 million
men, women and children are in modern slavery, including 28 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage.
2.93 million
workers die as a result of work-related factors; 395 million workers sustain a non-fatal work injury; 2.41 billion workers are exposed to excessive heat.
More than 40 per cent
of the world’s population lives in countries that have ratified neither of the freedom of association and collective bargaining Conventions.
Hundreds of millions
of people suffer from discrimination because of their skin colour, ethnicity or social origin, religion or political beliefs, age, gender, sexual identity or orientation, disability or HIV status.
Such a situation cannot and must not continue. These issues are at the core of the ILO mission: in 1998, the ILO's member States expressed their shared commitment to uphold basic human rights at work by adopting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
FUNDAMENTALS mission and vision
FUNDAMENTALS Branch Team
- Mr Philippe VANHUYNEGEM - Branch Chief
Mr Vanhuynegem is ILO FUNDAMENTALS Chief since April 2021. He holds a Master Degree in Economics and a Special Master Degree in Econometrics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He joined the ILO in 1997 starting in Ivory Coast and then in Lima Sub-regional office, as junior professional officer on social protection. He also worked in the ILO headquarters for several large technical cooperation programmes on social exclusion, social protection and local development. From 2011 to 2015, Mr Vanhuynegem was the senior enterprise specialist for the Andean Countries, based in Lima and the Director of the Sub regional Office for the Andean Countries from 2016 until March 2021.
Staff list
ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
Abolition of child labour
Elimination of forced or compulsory labour
A safe and healthy working environment
Freedom of association
Collective bargaining and labour relations
Elimination of discrimination at work