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

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Angola (Ratification: 1976)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report.

1. Further to its previous direct request, the Committee notes that the Association of Women in Undertakings (ASSOMEL) is endeavouring to organize women entrepreneurs and traders with a view to protecting their rights. The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the activities of the above Association.

2. The Committee recalls that it noted that the number of women employees in the public administration was particularly low in 1988. It drew the Government's attention to the fact that this situation could be improved by the adoption of positive measures to promote the employment of women in the public administration. It notes that the Government states that it does not have at its disposal up-to-date statistics on the basis of which the Committee could assess the manner in which the situation is developing. It hopes that the Government will be in a position to supply information with its next report on the development of the employment of women in the public service, as well as recent statistics on the number of women who are employed in the public service and their distribution at the various levels of responsibility.

3. Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply information in its next report on any measure which has been taken in the context of a national policy for the effective promotion of equality of opportunity and treatment, irrespective of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, and on the results achieved, particularly with regard to:

(a) access to vocational training and, in particular, the number and percentage of men and women who have benefited from the vocational training provided by the various training establishments set up under Decree No. 30/91 of 5 July 1991, and the number of women trained by the Organization of Women of Angola (OMA);

(b) access to employment and to particular occupations;

(c) terms and conditions of employment, and particularly the measures taken to promote equality of opportunity and treatment:

(i) in employment, vocational training and guidance for which the Government is directly responsible;

(ii) by legislation and through educational programmes;

(iii) with the cooperation of the organizations of employers and workers and other appropriate organizations, particularly with regard to employment in the private sector and matters which are not covered by collective agreements.