adequate social security benefits. Article 11 of the ICESCR articulates that the States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international cooperation based on free consent. It is noteworthy that Bangladesh has ratified ICESCR in 1998. 11.2. ILO Conventions There are 190 Conventions of ILO to date. Among them 8 Conventions are considered as the fundamental Conventions. These Conventions are considered as fundamental because they are binding upon the every Member State of ILO irrespective of the ratification. The 8 fundamental conventions are as follows: i. Forced Labour Convention, 1930: It deals with the obligation of MemberState to entirely eliminate the forced labour. However, military, civil service, court orders for emergencies and minor communal orders are excluded from this Convention. ii. Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948: This Convention prescribes that there will have no discrimination if a worker wants to join a trade union and to take collective action. iii. Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949: Itprovides the right of workers for collective bargaining with an owner through a trade union. iv. Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951: This Conventionincludes that every worker will be paid equally and there should have no discriminationon grounds of gender. v. Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957: This Convention deals with the ‘positive obligation on member states to ensure that all forced labour is abolished’. vi. Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958: It ensures that a worker must not be discriminated for his or her ‘race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin’ and so forth. vii. Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999: This Convention articulates several duties upon the Member States including the duty to identify and take steps for prohibiting the worst forms of child labour.