A/HRC/RES/28/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 April 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
28/15.
The right to work
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action, and recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights and other international human rights instruments relevant to the right to
work,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolutions 2007/2 of 17 July 2007, on the
role of the United Nations system in providing full and productive employment and decent
work for all, and 2008/18 of 24 July 2008, on promoting full employment and decent work
for all,
Taking note of the International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental
Principles and Rights at Work and its follow-up, adopted by the International Labour
Conference at its eighty-sixth session, on 18 June 1998, the Declaration on Social Justice
for a Fair Globalization, adopted by the Conference at its ninety-seventh session, on 10
June 2008, the Global Jobs Pact, adopted by the Conference at its ninety-eighth session, on
19 June 2009, and the resolution of the International Labour Organization on the follow-up
to its Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, adopted by the
Conference at its ninety-ninth session, on 15 June 2010,
Recognizing the primary role, mandate, expertise and specialization of the
International Labour Organization within the United Nations system in relation to the
promotion of decent work and full and productive employment for all,
Reaffirming that all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural
rights, including the right to development, are universal, indivisible, interrelated,
interdependent and mutually reinforcing, and that all human rights must be treated in a fair
and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
GE.15-07096 (E)