The United Nations Agency has published a report on profits and poverty. The profits through forced labour is generated by the exploitation of the labour. Elaborate the role of International Labour Organisation to protec

International Labour Organisation (ILO) is a nodal agency coming under the ambit of the United Nations (UN). Its primary objective is to deal with issues related to labour, namely, maintaining international labour standards, ensuring social protection and providing work opportunities to all. The ILO, the only tripartite united nation agency to promote social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights pursuing its founding mission that social justice is essential to universal and lasting peace. The main aim of the ILO is to grant social protection and to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities and to protect from exploitation and forced labour. It has been closely reflected in labour standards and in shaping policies and programmes. India and ILO have an enduring and vibrant relationship which is marked by close and dynamic cooperation over the years. Its primary objective is to deal with issues related to setting up labour standards, developing policies and chalking out programmes promoting decent work for all men and women. It is based upon social justice whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship and privation to large number of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled and improvement of those conditions is urgently required. The ILO works towards providing such a decent work and productive employment to the labour force worldwide. This is towards achieving globalisation throughout. To achieve this task, ILO looks at methods for job creation, providing rights at work, ensuring social protection, enabling channels for dialogue all this with a basic objective of maintaining gender equality. These all are integral elements of the UN General Assembly's 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The role of ILO also helped through the declaration of Philadelphia.