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This agenda was proclaimed as the ILO contribution to\r\nachieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, in particular cutting poverty down by\r\n50 percent. The position taken by the ILO is that minimum wages are an integral\r\npart of decent working conditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The binary focus\r\non minimum wages and compliance with Labour Law in this project proposal\r\nreflects the erosion of wage levels, not just in Latin America, but worldwide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"apple-style-span\">In\r\nthis project the trade union partners of CNV in the Latin American region are assisted in  coping with these twin\r\nproblems of structural underpayment and weak law enforcement of Decent Work\r\nobligations. 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