Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Mauritius (Ratification: 1969)

Article 2(2)(c) of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government's report, particularly on the duties which prison inmates may be required to perform under the Prison Regulations. The Government has indicated in connection with section 6(3)(a) of the Constitution that labour is not exacted in the absence of a sentence, even by virtue of the order of a court.