Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Timor-Leste (Ratification: 2009)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. 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 matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Repetition

Articles 1(1), 2(1) and 25 of the Convention. Trafficking in persons. The Committee notes that section 163 of the Penal Code prohibits human trafficking and prescribes sentences of eight to 20 years of imprisonment. The Committee requests the Government to provide, in its next report, information on the application of this provision in practice, including information on the legal proceedings which have been instituted against perpetrators and the penalties imposed.

Articles 1(1) and 2(1). Freedom of civil servants to leave their service. The Committee notes the absence of information regarding the freedom of civil servants to leave their service. The Committee therefore requests the Government to supply, with its next report, copies of laws and regulations governing civil servants, so that it may examine the conditions under which they can leave their service.

Articles 1(1) and 2(1). Freedom of career members of the armed forces to leave the service. The Committee requests the Government to indicate any provisions applicable to military officers and other career members of the armed forces, as regards their right to leave the service, in times of peace, at their own request, either at certain reasonable intervals or by means of notice of reasonable length.

Article 25. Penalties for the exaction of forced or compulsory labour. The Committee draws the Government’s attention to Article 25 of the Convention, according to which the exaction of forced labour shall be punishable as a penal offence, and the penalties imposed by law shall be really adequate and strictly enforced. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the provisions contained in national legislation that can be applied to penally sanction persons who impose forced labour.