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

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1960)

1. With reference to its previous direct request on the progress of certain legislative initiatives in regard to indigenous communities, the Committee notes the Peace Agreements on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples and on Socio-economic Aspects and the Agrarian Situation attached to the report which will be examined next year in the framework of Convention No. 169.

2. It also notes with interest that the Inter-institutional Commission created by government resolution No. 711-93 in which the National Office for Women (ONAM) participated is intended to eradicate the sexist roles and stereotypes in schoolbooks with the aim of placing men and women on an equal footing.

3. The Committee notes that the Congress of the Republic, in exercise of its legal powers, rejected the discussion and approval of the Substantive Labour Code and the Procedural Labour Code which were submitted to the Congress. The Committee recalls that these bills were the subject of observations by the Committee relating to the equality of opportunity and treatment enshrined in the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether there are other legislative initiatives which have been the subject of previous observations by the Committee, particularly in relation to equality of opportunity and treatment.