Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) - Iran (Islamic Republic of) (Ratification: 1957)

Further to its previous comments on section 273bis of the Penal Code, under which any person who did not have definite means of subsistence and who, whether through idleness or through negligence, did not look for work, could be obliged by the Government to take employment, the Committee notes with interest from the Government's report that the Islamic Penal Code of 1996 has entirely repealed and replaced the previous Penal Code, including the abovementioned section.

The Committee looks forward to examining the full text of the Islamic Penal Code of 1996 and hopes that a copy will be made available by the Government.

The Committee is addressing a request on certain other points directly to the Government.