discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented if necessary by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of rights(cited in CDHR 1996, Annual Report: 113). On its part, Article 24 reads: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including, reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Although the UN declaration came much later after some of the core ILO Conventions, it has the salutary effect of reinforcing them as it addresses virtually all the major issues in the employment relationship. In actual fact, the above cited articles are enough grounds for workers and their organizations to insist on an employment relationship that respects their dignity as human beings. With 184 Conventions and 192 Recommendations, it would appear that the ILO has done well to ensure that workers get a fair deal or that the contending interests are taken care of. The issues addressed in them range from the basic labour rights of freedom of association to more technical matters like those on occupational health and safety. To demonstrate its total commitment to the enforcement of international labour standards thereby assuring for the workers an employment relationship that recognises their humanity, the International Labour Conference in 1998 adopted the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up which states, in part,“all Members, even if they have not ratified the(fundamental) Conventions(…), have an obligation, arising from the very fact of membership in the Organization, to respect, to promote and to realize, in good faith and in accordance with the Constitution, the principles concerning the fundamental rights which are the subject of those Conventions”(quoted in ILO 2002:29). Ten years after, efforts at ensuring fundamental rights and principles at work as well as implementing the decent work agenda seem not to have made appreciable impact. Eight Conventions grouped into four categories, which incidentally address workers' rights are those labeled as fundamental. These are; Conventions 87 and 98 addressing freedom of association and collective bargaining, Conventions 29 and 105 addressing elimination of forced and compulsory labour, Conventions 100 and 111 addressing 12