Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Mali (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes the information contained in the Government's report in answer to its previous comments. It notes that a new Labour Code was adopted on 23 September 1992 and that it contains no amendments to the former provisions that related to the Convention.

1. With reference to its previous comments on equality of access to education, vocational training and employment, the Committee notes the Government's indication that detailed information, including statistics, on developments in equal access to education and vocational training, equal access to employment and occupation and equal treatment in respect of working conditions, will be sent to the ILO as soon as is feasible, bearing in mind that the necessary surveys are often too costly for the budgets of the Employment and Labour Departments.

The Committee draws the Government's attention to paragraph 247 of its 1988 General Survey on Equality in Employment and Occupation in which it points out that the means available for compiling information on direct and indirect forms of discrimination must be improved if progress is to be made in the elimination of discrimination and the promotion of policies to achieve equality. It therefore hopes that the Government will endeavour, with the cooperation of employers' and workers' organizations, enterprises and any other appropriate bodies, and with technical assistance from the ILO if it so requests, to compile data, particularly statistics, enabling it to keep better informed of the training and employment situation. It again asks the Government with its next report to provide recent statistical data on the school attendance rates of the various population groups, particularly women, and their participation rate in vocational training courses and in employment.

2. It would also appreciate receiving information on the activities of the National Manpower and Employment Office and the results of its supervision of the application of the principle of non-discrimination in training and employment laid down in the national legislation and collective agreements.

3. As regards women more particularly, the Committee notes from the report that the Government is paying special attention to the education, training and employment of women and the least privileged sectors of society, witness the establishment of the Ministry of Solidarity. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee asks the Government to provide recent statistics showing the percentage of women, in relation to men, employed at the various levels of the public administration and in public and private enterprises employing a large of number of women. Please also provide information on the activities of the new Ministry of Solidarity, indicating the results obtained, aimed at encouraging education and vocational training for women and facilitating their access to jobs where men still dominate and to more positions of responsibility.