Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) - Latvia (Ratification: 1992)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes with interest the information provided by the Government in its first report on the application of the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government would supply, with its next report, copies of the legislation in force in the following fields: the Criminal Code and the Correctional Code; the laws governing the press and assemblies, meetings and demonstrations; any amendments made to the Law on Public Organizations, of 15 December 1992; the Law on the Compulsory State Service of the Republic of Latvia, of 1991; the Law governing the Civil Service, and any provisions governing labour discipline in merchant shipping; any provisions restricting the right to strike in order to guarantee the operation of necessary services to the public, as referred to in article 26, paragraph 2, of the Constitutional Law.