Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) - Namibia (Ratification: 2000)

The Committee notes that no report has been received from the Government. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

The Committee has noted the information provided by the Government in its first and second reports on the application of the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government would supply, with its next report, copies of the legislation in force in the following fields: updated and consolidated text of the Criminal Procedure Act; laws and regulations governing the execution of criminal sentences; the laws governing the press and public assemblies, meetings and demonstrations; the law governing political parties; a full text of the Public Service Act, as amended; a full text of the Merchant Shipping Act, as amended, and any other provisions governing labour discipline in merchant shipping.