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Preamble
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: