The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 85
Párrafo- Paragraph text
- Governments and employers are not the only entities that influence workers' ability to exercise their peaceful assembly and association rights. Multilateral financial institutions may condition government loans on measures that weaken labour protections, deny workers a voice in the process and move employment towards informality. Recent International Monetary Fund loans to Romania and Greece were conditioned on limiting or denying workers' rights and benefits. Meanwhile, the same financial institutions fail to enforce their own labour standards, as in Uzbekistan, where the World Bank-funded projects that benefit the Government's cotton sector are plagued by State-sponsored forced labour. The Special Rapporteur notes that the World Bank recently adopted a new environmental and social framework that specifies that workers' rights must be respected in Bank-financed projects. He is concerned, however, that the labour safeguards do not reference international human rights standards and, as such, may be weakened by national laws.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/385, para. 85.
- Paragraph number
- 85
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