Implication of ICJ’s Advisory on Right to Strike for India

Implication of ICJ’s Advisory on Right to Strike for India

India’s recent clampdown on protesting workers evidences the slow criminalisation of the right to strike. Could a new decision of the International Court of Justice be a powerful instrument in the hands of lawyers and workers to push for legislative and constitutional reform in the country?

UN’s ICJ Invents an International “Right to Strike”

The UN's International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion in May claiming that a “right to strike” exists under international law. ... The post UN’s ICJ Invents an International “Right to Strike” appeared first on The New American.

From the Hague to New Delhi: The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Right to Strike and its implications for India

ON MAY 21, 2026, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) delivered its advisory opinion in Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87, holding by a ten is to four votes margin that the right to strike of workers and their organisations is protected under the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87). The opinion, rendered on a request transmitted by the Governing Body of the International Labour…