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date: 14 December 2019

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This article examines the issues of social justice, social rights, and the international labour movement in relation to international human rights. It traces the history of the emergence of international labour law and describes the action and innovation of the International Labor Organization (ILO). It suggests that the ILO’s structural machinery and guiding principles served as the global reference point for setting and supervising standards on workers’ rights, freedoms, and entitlements.

Keywords: social justice, social rights, international labour movement, human rights, international labour law, ILO, workers’ rights, freedoms, entitlements

Janelle M. Diller

Janelle M. Diller was appointed Deputy Legal Adviser of the International Labour Organization in 2008. Since joining the ILO in 1998, Ms. Diller has held various positions at the ILO, including Legal Officer, Principal Legal Officer, and Chief ad interim of the Multinational Enterprises Programme. She also provided advice on international law as a member of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. Prior to joining ILO, Ms. Diller worked as Legal Director of the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington DC (1990-95) and as Associate to a private multinational law firm in San Francisco, California (1986-88), and was appointed to a Federal judicial clerkship in Puerto Rico (1984-86). She has held various teaching posts in international and human rights law, including at Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, DC) and the University of Virginia School of Law (Charlottesville, Virginia) (1993-97), and served as a legal consultant to United Nations, Inter-American and other organizations (1988-90, 1995-97).

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