LABOUR STANDARDS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA: REPORT FOR THE WTO GENERAL COUNCIL REVIEW OF THE TRADE POLICIES OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA (Geneva, 16 and 18 November 2010)

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INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED CORE LABOUR STANDARDS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Papua New Guinea has ratified all eight core ILO labour Conventions. In view of restrictions on the trade union rights of workers, discrimination, child labour, and forced labour, determined measures are needed to comply with the commitments Papua New Guinea accepted at Singapore, Geneva and Doha in the WTO Ministerial Declarations over 1996-2001, and in the ILO’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its 2008 Social Justice Declaration.