Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Rural Workers' Organisations Convention, 1975 (No. 141) - Afghanistan (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government confines itself in its reports to providing general information on the role of the Union of Peasants and Farmers. Accordingly, it is bound to repeat its previous direct request and hopes that the Government will not fail to provide the detailed information requested in its next report.

Article 3, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee recalls that on ratifying the Convention, the Government undertook to guarantee that rural workers' organizations shall be independent and voluntary in character and shall remain free from all interference, coercion or repression.

The Committee notes, however, that several provisions of the Labour Code confer prerogatives on the single trade union designated by name in law as the "Central Council of the DRA's Trade Unions", in particular in the preparation of legislation and appointments to certain jobs (section 148(2) and section 3(4) of the Code). Furthermore, the Committee notes that the objects of the Code include the consolidation of labour discipline and the implementation of production plans (section 1(4) of the Code).

The Committee therefore requests the Government to provide detailed information on the role of the Union of Peasants in the implementation of the production plan and, if applicable, its powers in respect of labour discipline. In particular, it requests the Government to provide the statutory provisions regulating the Union of Peasants (the legislation under which it was created: e.g. the Labour Code of 1987, the Act concerning the organization and working of agricultural cooperatives, or any other relevant instrument) and to provide a copy of the recent statutes of the Union.

The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1993.