Courses of Action

Background

International Labour Organization (ILO) was established as an agency under the League of Nations (LN) after the First World War. After the Second World War, ILO reached agreement to collaborate on terms with The United Nations (UN) in 1946, it became the first specialized agency after the establishment of UN. Consequently, ILO advocated resolutions on labour welfare and rights in the first Asian Regional Conference in India. Without a doubt, ILO wanted to extend its scope to Asian countries especially to those were still in colonization; it initiated a series of Workers' Education Programmes, and firstly introduced to the Philippines in late 1950s. As a result, Labor Education Centre (LEC) was established at University of The Philippines (UP), pilot programs were offered to local working class and labour unions in 1958. In 1960, LEC evolved into Asian Labor Education Center (ALEC), and the programme was officially expanded into Asian Labor Leadership Institute (ALLI), which covered a wider crowd of stakeholders in Asia, including Japan, South Korea, Ceylon, Malaya, Indonesia, Burma, “Free China” (it refers to “Taiwan”), India, Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, Cambodia, Laos. The exchange program provided three-month intensive courses that covered democracy and unionism, labour rights, international labour movement, etc.

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背景

國際勞工組織（ILO）本是第一次世界大戰後國際聯盟旗下的一個機構。第二次世界大戰後，國際勞工組織於1946年與聯合國（UN）達成合作協議，成為聯合國成立後的第一個專門機構。其後，國際勞工組織在印度舉行的第一屆亞洲區域高峰會中提出關於勞工福利和權利的決議。國際勞工組織毫無疑問希望將其影響範圍擴展至亞洲國家，尤其是那些仍是殖民地的屬國；它啟動了一系列勞工教育計劃，並於20世紀50年代末首次引入菲律賓。因此，菲律賓大學（UP）成立了勞動教育中心（LEC），並於1958年向當地工人階級和工會提供試點項目。1960年，LEC演變為亞洲勞動教育中心（ALEC），該計劃後來正式發展為亞洲勞工領導講習會（ALLI），並涵括了更廣泛的利益相關者，當中包括日本、韓國、錫蘭、馬來西亞、印度、印尼、緬甸、中華民國自由地區、（即台灣）印度、越南、泰國、巴基斯坦、柬埔寨、老撾等等。交流計劃提供為期三個月的密集式課程，涵蓋民主和工會主義、勞工權利，國際勞工運動等。