A/HRC/RES/37/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 April 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 March 2018
37/16.
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, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Reaffirming also previous Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to work,
the most recent being resolution 34/14 of 24 March 2017,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 63/199 of 19 December 2008, entitled
“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 the follow-up thereto, adopted by the International
Labour Conference at its eighty-sixth session, on 18 June 1998, the Declaration on Social
Justice for a Fair Globalization, adopted by the Conference at its ninety-seventh session, on
10 June 2008, and the Global Jobs Pact, adopted by the Conference at its ninety-eighth
session, on 19 June 2009,
Recognizing the primary role, mandate, expertise and specialization of the
International Labour Organization within the United Nations system in relation to the
promotion of decent work and full and productive 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,
Acknowledging also the work of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in
particular the International Labour Organization, in supporting the efforts of States to
promote inclusive, sustained economic growth, full and productive employment and decent
work for all and the full realization of the right to work, and recognizing the important
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