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

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Ethiopia (Ratification: 1966)

Follow-up to the representation made under article 24 of the ILO Constitution by the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers concerning Conventions Nos. 111 and 158 (GB.282/14/5, November 2001). Recalling its previous observations on this matter, the Committee notes the communication from the Government dated 11 May 2005 by which it forwarded extracts of the Partial Awards of 17 December 2004 made by the Ethiopia Eritrea Claims Commission set up under the terms of the 2000 Algiers Agreement between the two countries. The Committee notes that these awards deal with liability concerning the claims submitted by Ethiopia and Eritrea and that the proceedings of the Commission are now at the phase of determining damages. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report on any further decisions reached by the Claims Commission and on measures taken, in line with such decisions, to indemnify as fully as possible the workers displaced following the outbreak of the 1998 border conflict, in accordance with Conventions Nos. 111 and 158, and to grant appropriate relief.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.