CSDC 292

Given the quickly developing global dimensions of economic-financial relationships and of the labour market, there is a need to promote an effective international cooperation among States by means of treaties, agreements and common plans of action that safeguard the right to work, even in the most critical phases of the economic cycle, at the national and international levels. It is necessary to be aware of the fact that human work is a right upon which the promotion of social justice and civil peace directly depend. Important tasks in this regard fall to international organizations and to labour unions. Joining forces in the most suitable ways, they must strive first of all to create “an ever more tightly knit fabric of juridical norms that protect the work of men, women and youth, ensuring its proper remuneration”.⁶³¹ Paul VI, Address to the International Labour Organization (10 June 1969), 21: AAS 61AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 61 (1969) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1969), 500; cf. John Paul II, Address to the International Labour Organization (15 June 1982), 13: AAS 74AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 74 (1982) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1982), 1004-1005.