A/HRC/RES/55/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 April 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 3 April 2024
55/9.
Right to work
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action, and recalling all international human rights instruments relevant
to the right to work, in particular the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, the fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization and
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Reaffirming also previous Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to work, the
most recent being resolution 49/11 of 31 March 2022,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 63/199 of 19 December 2008 on the
International Labour Organization Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, and
Economic and Social Council resolutions 2007/2 of 17 July 2007, on the role of the United
Nations system in providing full and productive employment and decent work for all, and
2008/18 of 24 July 2008, on promoting full employment and decent work for all,
Recalling also the International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental
Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up, adopted by the International Labour
Conference at its eighty-sixth session, on 18 June 1998, and amended at its 110th session, on
11 June 2022, the Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, adopted by the
Conference at its ninety-seventh session, on 10 June 2008, the Global Jobs Pact, adopted by
the Conference at its ninety-eighth session, on 19 June 2009, and the Centenary Declaration
for the Future of Work, adopted by the Conference at its 108th session, on 21 June 2019,
Recognizing the primary role, mandate, expertise and specialization of the
International Labour Organization within the United Nations system and through its unique
tripartite structure and supervisory system in relation to the promotion and realization of
decent work and full, productive and freely chosen employment for all, and recalling its
initiatives and activities in that regard, including the Decent Work Agenda, and the centenary
initiatives of the Organization,
Acknowledging the work of the treaty bodies, in particular the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in relation to the right to work,
GE.24-06221 (E)