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Labour Standards inDeveloping Countries

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  Labour Standards in
  Developing Countries
  
  Scope
  
  This paper will briefly outline War on Want policy on labour standards in a development context, with particular regard to enforcement. It is drawn in part from discussions at the War on Want 'Policy Forum'. It will not go into detail on research on labour standards or analyse in detail the issues around workers' rights. (For such analysis we refer to several background papers and research by other groups. See also upcoming War on Want research on the links between workers' rights and poverty).
  
  The social, economic and historical context
  
  Labour standards and workers' rights in the general sense are part of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and are internationally recognised as being fundamental, inalienable and indisputable. They form part of the view of progressive groups internationally that workers' rights are important for human development. War on Want's support for this view is accompanied by a strong belief in a rights-based approach to development, where workers' rights and other human rights are indivisible from economic rights such as the right to basic foods, services and other social needs. This would include the right to decent work.
  
  The more general struggle for workers' rights pre-dates the UN declaration; with it's roots in progressive movements, such as the Tolpuddle Martyrs in the UK, culminating in the setting up of trade unions and eventually labour movement political parties in the late 19th and early 20th century...