Posted on 06/17/2003 11:31:16 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:03:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The U.N. International Labor Organization, winner of the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, was founded in 1919. It is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles that brought the League of Nations into being, and it became the first specialized agency of the U.N. in 1946. Its self-described mandate is to promote social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights.
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