Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) - Cameroon (Ratification: 1962)

Article 1(c) of the Convention. Further to its observation, the Committee notes the Government's reply to its earlier comments regarding the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Code allowing imprisonment with compulsory work in certain cases of breach of discipline. It hopes the next report will include information on the outcome of the studies of a revision of the Code, as well as practical details of any use made of those provisions.