The ILO is celebrating its centenary this year. Could you go over the main achievements of this organisation?
Guy Ryder. One of the great achievements of the ILO’s founders is that they have made social justice a subject of international cooperation, within the framework of a multilateral organisation. They quite rightly believed that fighting inequality and poverty, improving the situations of men and women at work, and solidifying social dialogue were goals that could not be achieved at a national level alone. This is the added value of the ILO and its international mandate: to coordinate efforts and share values, as well as common rules, especially with regard to fundamental rights, and to assess how they are upheld, with the commitment of our tripartite members, representing the workers, employers and governments of 187 countries today.