Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) - Gabon (Ratification: 1961)

The Committee notes with regret 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 following matters raised in its previous direct request:

1.  Article 1(a) of the Convention.  The Committee hopes that the Government will envisage appropriate measures to amend Act No. 22/84 regulating prison labour, referred to in its previous direct requests. The Committee recalls that no forced or compulsory labour can be imposed in the cases cited in the Convention and again requests the Government to provide information in respect of the practical application of section 2 of this Act.

2.  Article 1(c) and (d).  The Committee trusts that the Government will provide useful information concerning any measures taken or envisaged in respect of section 153, paragraphs 1, 4, 5 and 9 (read in conjunction with section 156) of Act No. 22/84 of 29 December 1984, and sections 169, 186 and 188 of the Merchant Shipping Code (Act No. 10/63 of 12 January 1963), which lays down terms of imprisonment involving compulsory labour for certain breaches of discipline by seafarers.