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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. and by continuous and concerted international effort in which the representatives of workers and em- ployers, enjoying equal status with those of Governments, join with them in free discussion and demo- cratic decision with a view to the promotion of the common welfare. II Believing that experience has fully demonstrated the truth of the statement in the Constitution of the International Labour Or- ganisation that lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice, the Conference affirms that: (a) all human beings, irrespec- tive of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual de- velopment in conditions of free- dom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity; (b) the attainment of the con- ditions in which this shall be possible must constitute the cen- tral aim of national and interna- tional policy; (c) all national and interna- tional policies and measures, in particular those of an economic and financial character, should be judged in this light and accepted only in so far as they may be held to promote and not to hinder the achievement of this fundamental objective; (d) it is a responsibility of the International Labour Organisation to examine and consider all inter- national economic and financial policies and measures in the light of this fundamental objective; 3556

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