ILO international legal instruments

All migrant workers are entitled to the rights established under international law in these ILO international legal instruments:

Fundamental conventions

• Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87)
• Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)
• Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
• Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)
• Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138)
• Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)
• Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100)
• Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111)

*Table of ratifications of the fundamental conventions

Conventions directly related to migrant workers

• Migration for Employment (Revised), 1949 (No. 97)
• Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143)
• Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)