The International Labour Organisation is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialised agency of the UN. The ILO's labour standards are aimed at ensuring accessible, productive, and sustainable work worldwide in conditions of freedom, equity, security and dignity. The committee is charged with many responsibilities from a right to a living wage, to limits on the workweek, to preventing a race to the bottom between countries on labour rights and so on.