Activities
ILRF, working in coalition with other human rights and sweatshop-oriented NGOs, uses a diverse range of mechanisms to promote its vision of labor rights.
According to its website, the ILRF has worked directly to promote labor rights through:
- Research and publication
- Public campaigning and media outreach
- Promoting new ILO Conventions and their ratification
- Promoting reform of US legislation
- Advising multinational corporations on issues of corporate social responsibility
- Using litigation, especially the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), to hold corporations accountable
- Using trade-related complaints processes to hold governments accountable
Read more about this topic: International Labor Rights Forum
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“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
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