Action Program

1. Encourage professional associations in Industrial Relations, Human Resources Management, Labor Law, Labor History, Labor Education and related subjects to consider affirming support for core labor human rights preferably by placing a formal statement to that effect in their statutes.

2. Establish HRE caucuses in relevant professional organizations with the object of keeping HRE prominently on the agendas of those organizations.

3. Establish HRE student organizations at colleges and universities.

4. Develop a research program on human rights in employment and publicize implications of HRE in newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, the programs of professional societies and other relevant media. For example, at the initiative of SPHRE members the program committee of the Industrial Relations Research Association devoted its 1999 annual meeting to Human Rights in Employment.

5. Promote the teaching of HRE in the context of labour related programs in universities and colleges. Academic members of SPHRE are encouraged to devote at least a one hour lecture to HRE in their introductory and advanced courses.

6. Promote instruction in HRE in worker education courses and in professional human resources management training.

7. Establish liaison with other human rights organizations and urge them to place HRE on their agendas