ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the multilateral global institutional mechanisms and procedures designed to facilitate greater compliance by states with global human rights law. The Human Rights Council has unquestionably become a valuable central institution in the global human rights regime. An important cluster of global human rights institutions derive the authority from multilateral human rights treaties. The International Labor Organization (ILO) is the granddaddy of multilateral human rights organizations, founded in 1919.11 Major ILO conventions have dealt with freedom of association, the right to organize and bargain collectively, forced labor, migrant workers, and indigenous peoples, as well as a variety of issues of working conditions and workplace safety. The trans-ideological appeal of workers’ rights has also been important to the ILO’s success. In addition, the Committee of Experts, the ILO’s central monitoring body, deals principally with technical issues such as hours of work, minimum working age, workplace safety, and identity documents for seamen.
