Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Convenio sobre la discriminación (empleo y ocupación), 1958 (núm. 111) - Chad (Ratificación : 1966)

The Committee notes with regret the absence of a reply in the Government’s report to the points raised in its previous comment.

Article 1(1)(a) of the Convention. Discrimination based on sex. Sexual harassment. The Committee notes that, according to the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, the vast majority of its interlocutors during its mission to Chad in December 2017 acknowledged the high prevalence of violence against women and girls as a problem deeply rooted in the country’s patriarchal and traditionalist society, even though, in the absence of a reliable and centralized data-collection system, the Working Group only had access to partial data that do not necessarily reflect the full extent of the problem (A/HRC/38/46/Add.2, of 8 May 2018, paragraph 57). Noting the Government’s indication that the draft Labour Code is still in the process of being adopted, the Committee therefore once again requests it to take: (i) the necessary measures to include in the draft Labour Code provisions defining, prohibiting and penalizing sexual harassment in both its forms (quid pro quo and hostile work environment) committed by work colleagues or the employer, as well as by clients or suppliers, and to provide information on any progress in this respect; and (ii) specific measures in collaboration with workers’ and employers’ organizations to prevent sexual harassment in employment and occupation.

Article 1(1)(b). Additional grounds of discrimination. Further to its previous comments on the measures adopted for the protection of the rights of workers living with HIV and AIDS and workers with disabilities, the Committee notes that the above Working Group observed that women with disabilities or HIV/AIDS are particularly vulnerable and recommended that these categories (among others) should be the subject of in-depth studies in order to ensure that appropriate policies are developed to protect and empower them (A/HRC/38/46/Add.2, paragraph 61). The Committee notes with interest that, in the report that it submitted to the Human Rights Council in November 2023, the Government indicates that it has: (i) ratified, on 20 June 2019, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (2) adopted, on 11 September 2019, implementing Decree No. 1521/PR/MFPPE/2019 of Act No. 007/PR/2007 on the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities; and (3) adopted, during the Inclusive and Sovereign National Dialogue, eight resolutions benefiting persons with disabilities, of which certain have started to be implemented, such as those on the establishment of a centre for training and the manufacture of tricycles (in January 2023), the issue of national disability cards (beginning in May 2023) and the establishment of an agency for the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities (Act No. 013/PT/2023, of 19 June 2023) (A/HRC/WG.6/45/TCD/1, of 10 November 2023, paragraphs 41 and 81-82). The Committee once again requests the Government to provide information on: (i) any measures taken or envisaged to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of Act No. 019/PR/2007 of 15 November 2007 to combat HIV/AIDS/STIs and to protect the rights of persons living with HIV and AIDS in relation to the right to work (sections 32-41); (ii) the specific results achieved since the entry into force of implementing Decree No. 1521/PR/MFPPE/2019 and the resolutions in support of persons with disabilities; and (iii) the activities of the Agency for the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities in the field of employment and occupation. The Government is also requested to provide copies of any decisions on the interpretation of sections 15 and 16 of Act No. 007/PR/2007, and particularly the interpretation of the terms “a reasonable proportion” of persons with disabilities.

Statistics. The Committee notes that the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice noted in its mission report that only 43 per cent of women participate in the workforce (compared with 74 per cent of men) and that women mainly work in the informal retail and services sector (62 per cent) and in agriculture (29 per cent), where they earn low incomes and have no social protection, and it regretted the lack of up-to-date information and data on the situation of women (and particularly women domestic workers) and encouraged the Government to carry out in-depth studies of the situation (A/HRC/38/46/Add.2, paragraph 44). It also notes that, in its report to the Human rights Council in November 2023, the Government emphasizes the insufficient technical and financial resources for real-time data collection (A/HRC/WG.6/45/TCD/1, paragraph 114). The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures adopted or envisaged to: (i) compile statistics on the employment of men and women in all sectors (with an indication, for example, of the measures adopted to provide labour inspectors with appropriate resources for the collection of employment statistics), including in the public sector; and (ii) provide the statistical data compiled, disaggregated by sex and sector, and any available statistics on employment in the informal economy so that the Committee can assess the effect given to the Convention in practice.