Description:
279th Session
Review of the scope of the resolution.
Effect given by the Government of
Myanmar to the recommendations of the
Commission of Inquiry established to
examine the observance of the Forced
Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29).
Follow-up to the resolution adopted by the
International Labour Conference at its
88th Session (May-June 2000).
Review of the scope of the resolution
1. Under the terms of article 33 of the Constitution of the ILO, the International Labour
Conference adopted a resolution approving the measures recommended by the Governing
Body at its 277th Session (March 2000) to secure compliance with the recommendations of
the Commission of Inquiry established to examine the observance by Myanmar of its
obligations in respect of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), and decided that
those measures would take effect on 30 November 2000, subject to the conditions set out
in paragraph 2 of the resolution. The Conference considered that it could not abstain from
the immediate application of the measures recommended by the Governing Body ?unless
the Myanmar authorities promptly take concrete action to adopt the necessary framework
for implementing the Commission of Inquiry?s recommendations, thereby ensuring that the
situation [of workers affected by various forms of forced or compulsory labour] will be
remedied more expeditiously and under more satisfactory conditions for all concerned?. 1
2. The Conference entrusted the Governing Body with the task of examining the legislative,
executive and administrative framework which must be ?sufficiently concrete and detailed
to demonstrate that the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry have been
fulfilled? and such as to give effect to the intentions expressed by the Minister of Labour
of Myanmar in his letter dated 27 May 2000, which followed the first technical
cooperation mission sent by the Director-General to Yangon from 23 to 27 May 2000. In
the light of the results of that examination, it will be for the Governing Body to decide.
1 Annex to document GB.279/6/1.
Source/publisher:
International Labour Office
Date of Publication:
2000-11-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
