Observation on submission to competent authorities (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Rwanda

Submission. Date of submission. The Committee notes with interest the ratification of the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190), on 1 November 2023. The Committee notes, however, with deep concern that the Government has once again provided no response to its previous comments. The Committee observes that there are 40 instruments still pending submission and that the Government has not communicated any new information in this respect since the information provided orally to the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards in 2016 and 2017, informing about the existence of a letter addressed to the Prime Minister’s Office requesting submission of the instruments adopted between 1993 and 2012. In this regard, it recalls yet again that the constitutional obligation of submission is of the highest importance and is a fundamental element of the standards system of the ILO. Therefore, the Committee once more firmly urges the Government to provide information on the date of submission to the National Assembly of the 37 Conventions, Recommendations and Protocols adopted by the Conference at 20 sessions held between 1993 and 2019 (80th, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, 86th, 88th, 89th, 90th, 91st, 92nd, 94th, 95th (Recommendation No. 198), 96th, 99th, 100th, 101st, 103rd, 104th, 106th and 108th Sessions). It also requests the Government to provide information on the submission of the Safe and Healthy Working Environment (Consequential Amendments) Convention (No. 191) and Recommendation (No. 207), 2023, and the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208), adopted by the Conference at its 111th Session.

The Committee recalls once again that the Government may request the technical assistance of the Office, if it so wishes, to assist it in achieving compliance with its obligations under article 19 of the Constitution with respect to the submission to the competent authorities of the instruments adopted by the Conference.