 Confesor was the first Filipino and Asian woman to serve as Chairperson of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Governing Body from 1994 to 1995.She served as chairperson of a panel of seven experts to the Joint Congressional Commission to amend the 1974 Labor Code as well as one of six ILO Declaration experts-advisers to the ILO Governing Body.In late 2001, she served as vice-chairperson of the ILO Assessment Team sent to Myanmar in relation to the country’s violations of the Convention on the Abolition of Forced Labour.