Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Somalia (Ratification: 2014)

The Committee regrets that the Government’s first report has again not been received.

The Committee notes the observations of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), received on 1 September 2016, which are of a general nature. The Committee also notes the observations of the Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU), received on 28 August 2015, on restrictions on the exercise of trade union rights, in particular in the telecommunications and media sector, as well as repeated acts of harassment against trade union members. The Committee also notes with concern that the Committee on Freedom of Association examined a case brought by the FESTU concerning particularly serious violations of its trade union rights (Case No. 3113, 380th Report). In these circumstances, the Committee trusts that the Government will take all the necessary measures to provide its first report on the application of the Convention as soon as possible and that it will also provide on that occasion information in response to the observations of the FESTU.