Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

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

The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to provide a report for examination by the Committee at its next session and that this report will contain information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. With regard to vocational training, which is of capital importance in achieving equality of opportunity and treatment in respect of employment and occupation, the Government stated in its report received in 1986 that both national workers and immigrant workers - men and women - benefit by training programmes meeting the needs of modern technology and enabling the participant at the end of training to carry out a job in the various spheres of active life.

The Committee noted this information with interest and requests the Government to indicate - if possible on the basis of statistics - how far women participate in this training and by what means their access to it is facilitated. The Committee would also like to have information on the activities of the General Agency for Practical Education and Training, which was to be set up under Act No. 63 of 1982, and on those of the Centre for the Training and Preparation of Kuwaiti Women, set up under the Ministerial Order of 5 November 1980. The Government is also requested to furnish full information (including statistics) on the number of participants and the results obtained.

2. The Committee also noted from the report that Act No. 15 respecting the public service contains no provisions discrimninating against women, who enjoy equality of opportunity and treatment irrespective of the nature of their work and the post they occupy. The Committee requests the Government to indicate how far women are also appointed to senior posts in the public administration.

3. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures taken to ensure that access to employment in the judiciary is guaranteed without discrimination on grounds of sex or religion, and to provide information on the effect of such measures, stating the number and capacity of women and members of religious minorities who exercise judicial functions.