The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and having met in its Forty-second Session on 4 June 1958, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to discrimination
in the field of employment and occupation, which is the fourth item on the agenda
of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,
and
Considering that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms that all human beings, irrespective
of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and
their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security
and equal opportunity, and
Considering further that discrimination constitutes a violation of rights enunciated
by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
adopts this twenty-fifth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight
the following Convention, which may be cited as the Discrimination (Employment and
Occupation) Convention, 1958: