Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1944)

With reference to its previous comments concerning the provisions of the Act of 1956 relating to vagrants and rogues, which empowered the administrative authorities to order internment in a rehabilitation and labour establishment, an agricultural reformatory colony or a work camp, in order to reform vagrants and rogues or to put them out of harm's way, the Committee notes with satisfaction that in the ruling passed on 14 October 1997, the Supreme Court of Justice declared the Act in question to be null and void since it was unconstitutional.