THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) a tripartite body of the representatives of governments, employees and employers, came into existence in Paris on April 11, 1919, under the Treaty of Versailles, as an organ of the League of Nations. However, though the League of Nations suffered demise after the outbreak of the second world war in 1939, the ILO survived. On May 10, 1944 the 26th International Labour Conference at Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, US) adopted a declaration reaffirming the major objectives of ILO and strongly underlining the universal dimension of the struggle for social justice. This declaration is termed as the first universal Charter of Fundamental Human Rights to have been adopted by an international organisation.