The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 15
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States' failure to enforce laws and regulations has strongly contributed to the inability of workers to exercise their assembly and association rights. Without any realistic legal or democratic political recourse, workers are condemned to a new poverty. A report of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the end to poverty initiative notes: "Poverty does not simply 'happen' to our world of work. Rather, our world of work and our labour markets are generating poverty, or at least proving inadequate to get rid of it". Whether wilful or simply inadequate, decision- and law-making have weakened workers' ability to exercise fundamental rights and created a legal system that is unenforceable against either States or multinational enterprises and fails to protect those rights.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Poverty
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/385, para. 15.