Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 1994, Publicación: 81ª reunión CIT (1994)

Convenio sobre el trabajo forzoso, 1930 (núm. 29) - Pakistán (Ratificación : 1957)

Referring also to its observation under the Convention, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on the following points:

1. The Committee notes that a National Committee on the Rights of the Child to monitor and implement the relevant laws dealing with child labour is under consideration. The Committee would appreciate if the Government would supply information on the establishment of any such Committee and its terms of reference.

2. The Committee would request the Government to provide with its next report copies of the Annual reports for 1992 and 1993 of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) as well as of the most recent report of the National Commission on Child Welfare and Development (NCCND).

3. The Committee notes that the Pakistan Law Commission is reviewing the national legislation relating to the protection of children with regard to labour. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on measures taken or envisaged in this respect.

4. The Committee has been requesting the Government since 1981 to supply information on the terms of reference of career military personnel, in particular with regard to terms of enlistment and the conditions for resigning from active service.

The Government has stated previously that it considers the military service, being a voluntary one, not to be covered by the Convention; that military personnel do not fall within the definition of industrial workers; that officers and other personnel employed in the armed forces receive extensive training and the country could not afford to give them free option to leave the service; that the service falls under Article 2, paragraph 2(a), of the Convention and is thus excluded from its scope.

In order that the Committee be able to ascertain the conformity of national legislation with the Convention, the Committee again requests the Government to provide a copy of the provisisons governing the terms of service in the armed forces, in particular as concerns conditions of enlistment and resignation as well as any provisions applying in case of training received at the expenses of the State.