Fiji ratifies ILO workplace pact

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Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan yesterday virtually presented to the Director General of the ILO, Mr Guy Ryder two instruments of Fiji’s ratification of Convention 190 – Violence and Harassment Convention 2019 and Protocol 2002 to the Occupational Safety and Health Convention of 1981. Picture: SUPPLIED

Fiji will have to enforce laws that will stop violence, harassment, intimidation, bullying and discrimination in the workplace after it ratified the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Violence and Harassment Convention 2019.

The convention will enter into force on June 25, 2021.

“This convention is timely and highly applicable to address real challenges in the world of work today such as violence, harassment and intimidation,” said ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, permanent representative of Fiji to the United Nations in Geneva.

“We note in particular the inclusivity of the convention. It purports to protect and empower all those who are the subject of bullying and harassment at work, including women.”

The convention encompasses the intersectionality of the sources of discrimination thus encompassing the reality of the lives of many workers,” she added.

Fiji is the second country in the world and first in the Asia-Pacific region to ratify the convention.

“In times of crisis and economic insecurity, the risk of violence and harassment escalates, as has been so evident during this devastating pandemic,” said ILO director-general Guy Ryder.

“Violence and harassment is unacceptable at any time; it is clear that Convention No. 190 has a crucial role to play, whether in times of prosperity or during times of crisis.”

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